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Hello!

I asked Copilot if it could help me organize my bills, and it pointed me towards Power Automate. As I work on it, I running into problems, which require more and more complicated solutions. Did I fall for AI's boundless optimism? Is it to complicated to take a stack of bills and upload it into a folder, and have the automation organize it?

I am have no idea what I am doing with Power Automate Desktop, I just learned of its existence. Which means I have no real idea what the limits are or are not.

Thank you for your help.

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Power Automate Desktop

I would approach this in a very different way. I don't generally use Power Automate Desktop but the Cloud version. But I don't think Power Automate is necessarily the solution here. I think you should be building this with a Power Apps front end and a SharePoint list as the backend. You can add bills into your app and categorise them with a simple combobox. Another screen in your app can have a gallery that will filter the items based on the category, year etc. You can also add a screen for charts, for example the breakdown by each month - it's not as comprehensive as Power BI but you can still get good results. I would go down the apps route.