If you want to have more brain cycles for fun, creative stuff, you can automate the boring stuff.
Though you can't really call it a "cognitive assistant", it will definitely help you think better.
Automating the boring stuff was the secret to the rise of powerhouse startups like GitHub, GitLab …

Making an intelligent chatbot has never been easier, thanks to the abundance of open source natural language processing libraries, curated datasets and the power of transfer learning. Building a basic question-answering functionality with Transformers library can be as simple as this:

Input 1: Load Pretrained Transformer QA Model

from transformers …