A photographer with ADHD runs their business through a ChatGPT dot connected to Notion: daily plans, calendar gaps and social posts.

I'm a photographer/videographer/editor and I run my own business. I have ADHD like nobody's business and executive function skills can be tricky for me. I need structure. I have a ton of scheduled tasks that it delegates. My dot is connected to my notion database. In notion it has access to my quarterly goals, short term to do list, long term to do list, the tasks that my business coach gives to me during our meetings every two weeks, job list, job notes, revenue reports, my entire social media calendar and trackers, list of prospects who I am trying to gain business from and where I am in their marketing sequence, etc. I mostly leave my laptop open all day and night so it can work on it. In the morning of work days it prompts me and I discuss my daily planned activities with it. My calendar is accessible on my website for bookings, and it's a bit of a juggling act to keep space open so my photography clients can book me while also scheduling tasks that I need to do to keep my business running. I'm constantly moving things around in my calendar using my dot, I talk to it through an earbud. I have brainstorming sessions with it while I walk my dog or I'm at the gym. It can trigger deep research etc while I'm out and about. I don't let people book after 5pm for next day appointments so at 5pm it messages me to fill any blank spaces in my calendar for the following day. It pulls suggestions from my notion database - it knows what I'm supposed to be doing because of my quarterly goals, business coach tasks and to do lists. If there is a task that it notices I haven't spent enough time on to complete by the end of the month or quarter or whenever it's deadline is then it will suggest filling the gap with that task. It is on my business social media way more than I am. I have all of the videos and photos I've ever captured for clients on my business google drive account that it has access to. Around the 18th of every month it goes through my google drive and selects different similar types of photos that I've taken or a videos, creates captions for them, and adds them to the monthly draft. I like to do two videos per month where I'm involved, one informational and one meme/funny. It helps me write the script for the video of me talking and it researches recent funny social media trends that I can use as a template. Then it shows me the entire draft, and I either refine it or approve it. The dot checks the social media pages of my prospects for new posts. Every 2-3 posts it will draft a comment for me to say on one of them. This eventually leads to a sales call. It has the information of 50 of my competitors. Their websites, their prices if available, and their social media pages. Every 2 weeks it shows me what they've been posting and it notifies me of any new products they start advertising or any price changes. I've really gotten into coding in the past few months, I'm designing a few different apps that my business can use. I prefer claude's coding logic, but I have the $100 chatgpt sub so I code with codex. Codex has gone off the rails at times while coding some things so I like for claude to audit codex's work every 24 hours. The dot can ferry conversations between claude and codex, which is awesome because I used to copy and paste between them constantly. When I design a project I also like to get claude opus 5.5's blue print and astra ultra's blueprint. I use the dot to bridge a back and forth between claude and codex until they mutually agree on the design. Every night at 9pm it messages me to tell it exactly what I did/accomplished that day, since I have a habit of pulling an audible and getting distracted if I don't have work directly with a client. It logs all of my answers in a private notion page. It examines what I was supposed to do based on my calendar vs what I actually did based on what I told it at the 9pm brief. Like many people I had some childhood trauma that has carried into adulthood. There is a self help book that I have found very effective over the years and I like to have its exercises and knowledge base handy, so I uploaded the .pdf of the book to my dot. I've told it what parts of the book I really relate to, and I've explained what my life generally looks like if I'm struggling and frame it in the context of certain parts of the book. It knows that I highly value doing some combination of playing my drums, guitar, surf skating, and going to the gym every week. Every two weeks it assess how I've been spending my time and if it notices an unhealthy pattern or that my actions aren't holistic it brings it to my attention with a suggestion from the book. In the future I will likely implement a social life manager mechanism based on dunbars numbers to keep track of my personal relationships. It will know my inner circle of people that I want to talk to weekly, the next layer of friends that I want to talk to bi weekly or monthly, and the next layer that I prioritize speaking to once or twice a year. I've asked it for recipes while cooking. I think that's it? It's a little buggy sometimes and might run into a blocker because a rule confused it or something. But even with the bugs it has been extremely helpful. tbh I'm ready for more dots. I overwhelm it pretty often lol. It can only do 2-3 things at once I think. Some people will probably call this overkill but for people that struggle with executive functioning it's a god send.