Amanda: a custom GPT to help you get started on what you are putting off

It is insanely easy to create customised versions of ChatGPT with tailored instructions and specific training material. If you are having trouble getting started with a couple of pesky tasks, you may want to try a Custom GPT Assistant I created, lovingly called 'Amanda'.

Amanda is instructed to help you get started by focusing on a single task at a time. It is able to help you get grounded first, and it has a couple of meditation and other therapeutic tactics at its disposal to help you out if you're really having trouble with eating the frog. Try it out here – however, you do need to be subscribed to ChatGPT Plus to use it.

I have my own productivity assistant with an additional skill: it has access to my private Trello environment and is instructed to fetch and analyse outstanding todos. However, I found the configuration options for authentication limiting, so I had to include my API key into the custom instruction set, which works for me but makes it impossible to share with others. I am sure it will become much easier to connect to various online services very soon, though.