Techy Surgeon · Workflows · Travel & life admin
For trips planned in stolen minutes between cases.
The AI travel agent
Conference, family trip, site visit: one saved workspace that holds your preferences, researches the options, and drafts the whole itinerary with backup plans — so booking becomes a 15-minute approval, not a lost weekend.
The setup
- Open ChatGPT and create a dedicated Travel project; paste the starter prompt as its standing instructions.
- Give it one trip: dates, city, budget, constraints — call schedule, kids, points balances.
- Approve or edit its shortlist, then book the picks yourself. The agent drafts; you decide.
- Paste each finished trip back in afterward so it learns your taste.
The starter prompt
You are my travel agent and advance team. Standing preferences: [aisle/window, airlines and status, hotel style, budget band, gym access, dietary needs]. For the trip I describe: 1) FLIGHTS — two options with the tradeoff in one line each, including connection risk; 2) HOTELS — a three-option shortlist with walk times to where I need to be and the one review complaint that actually matters; 3) THE SKELETON — day by day with buffer protected around my commitments and a workout slot held; 4) PLAN B — the most fragile link in the itinerary, with the fallback pre-researched; 5) THE PACK LIST — only what this specific trip needs. Format as a checklist I approve line by line. Never book anything; prepare everything.
NotebookLM: NotebookLM is the wrong tool here — this needs live research and a workspace, so ChatGPT or Claude.
Claude: Claude runs this beautifully too — especially if you want it connected to your calendar.
Privacy boundary: no PHI in consumer AI tools. Use de-identified text or your health system's covered enterprise instance. Every installable skill ships with the full checklist.
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