A Month of Muse: My Favorite Use Cases
Over the last month, I’ve been using Meta’s Muse to tackle the things I keep putting off and get more out of the apps I already use. I’ve been sharing these “musecases” on X. Here are the ones that have been useful—and a few that were just fun.
1. Find friends’ birthdays and build a birthday calendar.
Muse searched my Instagram stories and posts, Facebook, and messages to find 31 friends’ birthdays I hadn’t saved. It added them to Google Calendar as recurring yearly events. I turned this into a birthday-finder plugin, too.
2. Turn saved travel Reels into somewhere you’ll actually go.
I had 200+ Reels saved with places I wanted to visit. Muse mapped the locations and helped turn them into an itinerary, so I could stop digging through saves whenever I wanted to make plans.
3. Compare accommodation for a group trip.
For Vegas, I needed somewhere for ten people for three nights. Muse filtered hundreds of Airbnb listings in about 20 minutes, compared prices including fees, checked for a grill, hot tub, and pool table, counted actual beds, and summarized the drawbacks of each option.
4. Find last-minute campsite availability.
Muse found cancellations for our group of 11. Anyone who’s tried organizing a California camping trip knows how much refreshing and checking that can involve.
5. Make the calls you’ve been avoiding.
My early use cases included scheduling doctor and dentist appointments and calling to get a refund. It also called Little Original Joe’s and booked my birthday dinner for a Saturday night.
6. Sell the things sitting around your apartment.
Muse listed five items on Facebook Marketplace and coordinated same-day pickups. I didn’t have to open Facebook or Messenger.
7. Track down a product from an Instagram Reel.
I sent Muse a Reel featuring a sold-out squishy. It found the exact product, figured out the restock date, and set up a watch to buy it when it went live. The setup took two clicks from me.
8. Organize an overflowing saved-Reels folder.
Muse sorted 828 of my saved Reels into collections. Saving something is easy; being able to find it again is the useful part.
9. Turn music recommendations into a Spotify playlist.
I had hundreds of saved Reels with music recommendations buried in them. Muse went through them and built a playlist, so those recommendations finally made it into my listening rotation.
10. Summarize a topic across Reels.
I asked Muse to summarize Reels about upcoming Taylor Swift songs. This is a fun use case for catching up on something without watching every clip individually.
11. Clean up email and audit Instagram followers.
I used Muse to organize thousands of emails and review my Instagram followers. I’ve also suggested using it to find accounts that don’t follow you back.
12. Handle the small things—and try something playful.
Muse got me tickets to The Social Reckoning. I also challenged it to Krillion, where it reached 5,050 metres and the top 9%, and shared its first Musegram post. Not every use case needs to be productive.
My favorite starting point is still the task you’ve been postponing for weeks. Give Muse the details that matter: the dates, the group size, the budget, or what a finished result should look like.
If you’re wondering about connecting your accounts, I wrote about that in “Is giving muse my logins sus?”
And you can ask Muse to submit feedback to the team, too. If something breaks, feels confusing, or could work better, tell it.