AI Tools
An honest board. What's in daily use, what's on trial, what I retired.
Canva AI
Design platform with Magic Studio AI tools
ChatGPT
All-purpose AI assistant for writing, research, coding, and productivity
Claude
Anthropic's frontier assistant with strong reasoning and long context
Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding assistant for the terminal
Confluence
Team wiki and documentation from Atlassian.
Figma
Collaborative interface design and prototyping.
Forgejo
Self-hosted Git forge with a lightweight UI.
Gemini
Google's advanced AI for search, productivity, and creative tasks
Google Analytics
Web and product analytics at scale.
Google Workspace
Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive in one suite.
Jira
Issue tracking and agile project management.
Lovable
AI app builder with Supabase backend and team collaboration
Microsoft Teams
Chat, meetings, and collaboration in Microsoft 365.
Obsidian
Local-first markdown knowledge base.
Outlook
Microsoft's email and calendar client.
Perplexity
AI-powered answer engine with real-time search
Plaud
AI voice recorder that turns meetings into transcripts, summaries, and action items
Slack
Channel-based messaging for teams.
Codex
OpenAI's cloud-based agentic coding environment with frontier model
DeepSeek
Open-weight Chinese reasoning model with free chat and self-host options