The Toolshed
An honest board. What's in daily use, what's on trial, what I retired. 38 tools logged.
№
Tool
Category
Status
Since
Note
№38
Canva AI
Media Generation
IN USE
JAN 26
Design platform with Magic Studio AI tools
№37
ChatGPT
AI Assistants
IN USE
JAN 26
All-purpose AI assistant for writing, research, coding, and productivity
№36
Claude
AI Assistants
IN USE
JAN 26
Anthropic's frontier assistant with strong reasoning and long context
№35
Claude Code
Coding & Development
IN USE
JAN 26
Anthropic's agentic coding assistant for the terminal
№34
Confluence
Product & Design Ops
IN USE
APR 26
Team wiki and documentation from Atlassian.
№33
Figma
Product & Design Ops
IN USE
APR 26
Collaborative interface design and prototyping.
№32
Forgejo
Coding & Development
IN USE
APR 26
Self-hosted Git forge with a lightweight UI.
№31
Gemini
AI Assistants
IN USE
JAN 26
Google's advanced AI for search, productivity, and creative tasks
№30
Google Analytics
Product & Design Ops
IN USE
APR 26
Web and product analytics at scale.
№29
Google Workspace
Productivity & Docs
IN USE
APR 26
Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive in one suite.
№28
Jira
Product & Design Ops
IN USE
APR 26
Issue tracking and agile project management.
№27
Lovable
Coding & Development
IN USE
JAN 26
AI app builder with Supabase backend and team collaboration
№26
Microsoft Teams
Comms & Meetings
IN USE
APR 26
Chat, meetings, and collaboration in Microsoft 365.
№25
Obsidian
Comms & Meetings
IN USE
APR 26
Local-first markdown knowledge base.
№24
Outlook
Productivity & Docs
IN USE
APR 26
Microsoft's email and calendar client.
№23
Perplexity
AI Assistants
IN USE
JAN 26
AI-powered answer engine with real-time search
№22
Plaud
Comms & Meetings
IN USE
APR 26
AI voice recorder that turns meetings into transcripts, summaries, and action items
№21
Slack
Comms & Meetings
IN USE
APR 26
Channel-based messaging for teams.
№20
Codex
Coding & Development
TRIALING
JAN 26
OpenAI's cloud-based agentic coding environment with frontier model
№19
DeepSeek
AI Assistants
TRIALING
JAN 26
Open-weight Chinese reasoning model with free chat and self-host options