Discover Cutting-Edge AI Tools Designed to Enhance Your Productivity and Streamline Your Workflow

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All right guys, we’re about to kick off Robin’s tool reviews of the week — see what cool new gen tools Robin’s found for us today.

Okay, so for this week I just created a kind of heads-up for all tools, so you got one reference source to go back to. Just very quickly, thought about Jordan when I saw this tool this week — this is Slido, a really fast, interactive way of being able to quickly host and share live polls, Q&As, quizzes, and word clouds from the front of the stage when you’re presenting in conferences, as well as during teams and other calls. So it’s really good — you can create polls and questions and answer sessions on the fly. You can invite people with a link and a password, or you can invite people straight away with a QR code and they can just scan it on the phone and dive in. Lots of interactivity, create your own quizzes, you can take questions from the audience — those people who log in — and there’s a full analytics system behind it with graphs and charts. So if you’re running a multi-day event you can also split this up by room as well, so you can run this against individual rooms and areas of your event. So that looks hot.

Moving on — we talked the last couple of weeks about all the different models that are coming out, it seems to be a never-ending number every week, so I just came across a couple of tools that I wanted to share with you guys on comparing what the models do in terms of the outputs. This one’s a fixed format — there’s six categories over here on the left and there’s 200 different scenarios within the six categories, and basically you can choose which model you want to check the output on and it will automatically change based on the highlighted prompt. You can change the temperature as well to see how that would affect the output, and you can also add more cards, so you can get I think about eight or twelve running at the same time. So that’s nice.

Then I thought to myself, well what if I want to input my own prompt and see how the different models behave? The only one that I found so far that’s pretty fluid in a similar fashion is via Vercel, the on-demand infrastructure company. I think they use this as a kind of calculator front-end type tool to attract people in. You need credit, which is relatively low cost for some of the pro ones like Claude, but some of the more generic ones — Google, Meta, and so on — are cheaper. So I typed in at the bottom, “when was the Eiffel Tower constructed,” and then it pops up the answer side by side, so you can have a play around with that one.

Moving on — in my quest to find a tool that I can copy-paste information from anywhere I’m roaming online and bring that into one central location and then apply AI against that to run certain scenarios to produce certain content, I’ve come across Sena AI, which is being badged as an ADHD-friendly AI note-taking app. But actually, if you go down a couple of levels, there’s a lot more to this program than meets the eye. So for example, anything that I’ve copy-pasted from different websites automatically gets tagged by AI and pulled into a central location, and then they’re stored as separate nodes so I can retitle the nodes. So then many months later, when I’m recalling a conversation with Joel, I can actually run a query and just say “give me relevant notes that are associated with John,” and it will query using AI against any notes that I’ve got that reference Joel. Obviously you can do this for any topic. I can copy the outputs into a new node and create content on the fly, and then I can use different AI models against that new node to expand out that content. So it’s a real multi-layered way of using many different models to create content based on what you’ve captured. There’s a lot more to it than that, but that core flow is something that looks attractive.

Okay, this is probably the tool of the week — I’ve been playing around with this for a few hours. This is jeda.ai, and this is a whiteboard canvas — of which there are many, like Miro — that you can create different visual effects, flowcharts, mind maps, and many others, and you can run AI using different models against those diagrams and images and expand and flesh out those diagrams and images. Or alternatively you can just import a document and say “produce a SWOT analysis based on this document,” and it will spit out the result.

So I’m just going to flip over to this screen — here’s one I made earlier just to show you all. I used the AI tool up here, this is the generic one, it’s got tons of different models already embedded in it, I think it was over 350 in total. So I selected, for this one, strategic planning, I selected SWOT analysis, wanted to do the comparative SWOT analysis, filled in the sections, didn’t use any advanced features, used GPT-4, clicked generate, and 30 seconds later this is what came out. All of this is fully editable and is live, you can resize your canvas. And then on this particular use case I drew a rectangle around the top — the threats — and the AI pops up again, and then I said “show me the threats here,” and it actually produced a detailed analysis using my preferred format for the threats. And then I wasn’t happy, I wanted to drill down further — I highlighted “economic downturn” and said “show me a detailed analysis for the UK,” changed the model to Claude 3.5, and then this is the text that it produced, and then I just added a little sticker on there against inflation rates. You can add stickers, icons, badges, everything to this, you can save it as a screenshot, save it as a workspace, and you can use this collaboratively and invite other people in as you’re presenting to co-create — really powerful tool, only just scratched the surface, but I just wanted to give you guys a heads-up.

Just to move on — Saina Rov has taken Claude 3.5 and artifacts a stage further, she created a $10,000 app for $2 in less than two hours. Have a watch of that video, it’s really cool. The key tool that she used to push things through was csa.com, which is a super intelligent code editor, and that can take care of your environment and missing sections and frameworks within your environment.

Next one’s a really nice tool — some people over the last couple of weeks on this call have mentioned about clients and billing clients, and as we all know one of the challenges there is actually creating the scope of work in the first place. Here you can take your current documents and templates, or very quickly create them from text, you can upload it and create a number of services that your business or organization offers, you can associate pricing with those, and then as you engage with your clients it creates a portal for the client to go in and sign up. So far so good, there’s tons of other tools that do this, but where this one goes even further is that as you’re working with the client or the business and things change, as they always do, you can use this tool to do change management and scope creep, to be able to upsell other services or upsell your time, and it will automatically control that and take care of that. So Scopey is looking to be a really smart tool to take care of the life cycle and make sure that you’ve got a contract underpinning the services that you offer.

Last one — sorry, I just had to say that one’s awesome. Yeah, same — last one I’m only sharing, this guy is a social media content creation platform that’s got a built-in calendar, publisher, scheduler. It does more than that, but what I really loved about this — look at the graphics and the image style, it’s so cool, really good. This company carried this really clear comic-book style — going to appeal to Gen X and boomers — really clear, the guy carries this through onto his YouTube channel as well and all his social media, and I just thought it’s a good example of designing for a target audience, so I wanted to share that as well.

That’s it for this week, thank you Robin, that was fantastic. Thank you so much for putting that together. No problem, no problem — really would take it, take a look and a play with jeda, it’s really powerful. Thanks for listening.