Yesterday there was an interesting posting about 'Things you're allowed to do': https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31705542

One point was that you can use personal assistant services.

A few weeks ago I actually signed up for virtual personal assistant (VPA) service because I had a specific problem: I needed to book an appointment through a company that had very long telephone queues, and they were only operating during my work hours were meetings would interfere with me sitting in the phone queue. I tasked an assistant to sit in the phone queue and book an appointment for me.

It worked out great! After just a day I got a message back from the VPA that they had booked me at a time when I had availability!

It felt like a huge load off my back to just have it done, after having tried several times and not managing to get through the queue before I needed to head for a work meeting.

After this, I'm excited about using the VPA to simplify my life even further.

However, I'm not sure what I can use it for. It seems really convenient for organizing travel, but I don't have any travel planned.

Do people of HN have experience simplifying their lives with virtual personal assistants?

What kind of things have you used virtual personal assistants for?

Have you tried integrating it in you jobs? I would love to use it for things such as booking meeting rooms at work, etc. But I think secrecy in our company (it's a biotech) would prevent this.