 
| Category | Monthly Amount | Trend | Note |
|----------|----------------|-------|------|
| Rent/Mortgage | $1,800 | Stable | — |
| Utilities | $220 | Up 15% | Higher than last 3 months — check AC usage |
| Groceries | $480 | Stable | — |
| Subscriptions | $65 | Up | Two new services added this month |
| Maintenance | $90 | Stable | — |
 

Summary  
This chapter demonstrates how to format a Markdown prompt to feed multi-period tabular data into an analysis tool, categorize spending entries, detect trends, and flag anomalies.

General domain of usage  
Personal finance management

## Task
> Give this to the Spreadsheet Analyze tool in the lab on the right:
>
>><b>Here are my monthly bills and rough spending by category: [paste details]. Build me a budget breakdown, and flag anything that looks like it's trending over what I'd expect.
>
> If you have 2-3 months of data, include it — a single month's snapshot won't show trends on its own. When you're ready, continue to the next chapter.

Discover how to turn everyday household chaos — chores, bills, repairs, groceries — into a system you can manage with AI. Practice organizing a messy task list, building chore schedules that actually hold up, diagnosing routines that keep breaking, and pulling it all into one weekly dashboard. Gain a solid understanding of how to bring AI into daily home life, not just work — no technical background required.

Get comfortable having a conversation with AI, then learn to see a home as overlapping cycles of chores, bills, and repairs — and turn a messy list of tasks into clear categories and priorities.

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Diagnose why the same household routine keeps failing, set up a recurring reminder for maintenance you tend to forget, and research a repeated home issue before deciding whether to call a professional.

Bring chores, bills, repairs, and groceries into one weekly dashboard, track a simple home budget for trends, and turn the week's status into a short update you can share with your household.