I created Nellie, a custom ChatGPT, last April. In addition to my day job and being my mom’s tech support and CFO (hi Mom!) I was working on five anthologies, all in different stages. I use Notion to track detailed publication tasks, and I’m an excellent multi-tasker, but it’s hard to stay on top of that much at once.

Nellie started tracking my tasks and recommending what I should work on out of the zillion todos on my list. I kept lower-level details in Notion, so for example Nellie might su...