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About the personal assistant, I'm starting to think if it would be worth it for me in the future. Right now I'm still in engineering school so I don't have the money for it but I have so much sideline stuff that I'm hitting the limits of just reminders.

I have a very bad memory for things I have to do but since reminders I set up never appear right when I can do the task I still forget about it.

I have "buy new shoes", or "go to the ophtalmologist" in my phone since 4 months for example.

Are there people here that have a personal assistant and can share their experience ?

Side note : that's one of the reason I think I may have ADHD, I still have the reminder to take an appointment with a psychologist on my phone....

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> I have a very bad memory for things I have to do but since reminders I set up never appear right when I can do the task I still forget about it.

Taking some inspiration from GTD, you can have different reminders, or rather task lists, for each different environment/moment. You can have one for “on-the-go” which are things you want to do when you are out of the house doing errands (“buy new shoes” would go here probably).

At least where I’m from, you have to schedule a doctor’s appointment before going there, so I’d replace “go to the ophthalmologist” with “schedule ophthalmologist appointment”. You can do that over the phone in less than 2min in your free time so I’d put it in a “free time” list. After that it’s no longer a task/problem, all you have to do is show up.

> Side note : that's one of the reason I think I may have ADHD, I still have the reminder to take an appointment with a psychologist on my phone....

Set many alarms, right now, to book that appointment. If you don't have ADHD or another disorder then you're only out a chunk of money, but if you do and can get medication then it can be life-changing.

PA is going to go to the ophthalmologist & psychiatrist for you?

Well, obviously no but I think it would still help with taking appointments at the best times and havung better reminders among other things.

I was just wondering if it would be a good idea.

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