My Favourite AI Tools
I have been playing with a number of tools, most often they are to help speed up work flows and create quick and easy content (or create content from my existing content).
With that said here are my favourite tools
Perplexity - I use it for quick answers, it is quick and acts like an answer engine (not a search engine - it isn’t a new Google) and offers sources from their answers. Google’s SERPs are still a mess and we will likely see more vertical AI answer tools come out and unbundle Google chunk by chunk. Perplexity app is very responsive and is way better than using Google’s app (removes incorrect summaries) and is quicker for Q&A.
Descript - I use it for editing podcasts, it automates and transcribes my podcasts (audio and or video) and then you can create clips to share on social media. If you can create in a Google doc, you can create and edit video and audio in descript. Riverside.fm also has many of these features now too.
Notion AI Q&A - I use it to find and ask questions about the documents and databases in my notion. It saves me a lot of time and works better than the standard search does. As a Product person, I appreciate the care and effort taken in this product.
Agent.ai - its a tool for many things, I have used many of their agents, from competitor comparison based on the Chaptgpt model, company research agent and DISC agent. If you are looking for a tool that will help with baseline tasks or research it is good and mostly free (based on usage credits)
Lex.page - I use it to build out ideas and articles or to question myself on the content. It’s perfect for simple editing and it is like writing in Google docs with inbuilt actions to take with quick prompts to help move you forward.
Opus - I used this clipping tool for a long time, it’s actually super easy in creating a lot of good quality short-form videos from one long-form video. If you are looking for website content, or teasing something on social this is a tool for you. You will go through credits quickly and will want to edit some so a premium account will likely be needed.
Claude - I use this as a creative assistant. I find it better for answers than ChatGPT. I have found you don’t need the most detailed prompts for Claude to produce high-quality answers and their artefacts really do help create a better search for better results. It’s a product that puts the consumer at the front vs other creative AI tools.
Gamma - I use Gamma to create quick 10 slide decks on my blog posts or on complicated pre written content. Its good at making decks from prompts or from existing content - the free version is fairly limited but you can edit what it creates, the paid can upload templates if you are looking to replace PowerPoint or Keynote etc. Be warned if you are looking to cut corners on use in your job, be mindful it uses AI to summarise and plug in AI tools so be mindful to check its work and follow the brand guidelines - otherwise in meetings and work reviews you will be called out.
Bing Image Creator - I use it to create quick and easy images for this blog and presentations. It is a simple and free creator (not exactly perfect images but good for blogs or social content). Canva is getting better at image generation but will cost money
Bearly.ai - I use bearly as a creative assistant and alongside it being research assistant, as you can select the AI model when you query you can ask it varying questions or question on other AI models (say ChatGPT 4o and then Haiku) to validate or expand out. I don’t use Bearly as much as I should… Something that many people love using it for is transcription (audio and YouTube videos)
Other decent AI products include Napkin.ai (for creating imagery from my posts), Grammarly, Canva (content creation) and ChatGPT 4o.
