AI Tools
An honest board. What's in daily use, what's on trial, what I retired.
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
Codex
OpenAI's cloud-based agentic coding environment with frontier model
Confluence
Team wiki and documentation from Atlassian.
Forgejo
Self-hosted Git forge with a lightweight UI.
Google Workspace
Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive in one suite.
Jira
Issue tracking and agile project management.
Microsoft Teams
Chat, meetings, and collaboration in Microsoft 365.
Obsidian
Local-first markdown knowledge base.
Plaud
AI voice recorder that turns meetings into transcripts, summaries, and action items
Slack
Channel-based messaging for teams.
Backlog.md
Markdown task tracker that lives in your git repo
Canva AI
Design platform with Magic Studio AI tools
DeepSeek
Open-weight Chinese reasoning model with free chat and self-host options
Figma
Collaborative interface design and prototyping.
Gemini
Google's advanced AI for search, productivity, and creative tasks
Google Analytics
Web and product analytics at scale.
Google NotebookLM
AI research assistant for documents and knowledge synthesis
LM Studio
Desktop app for running local LLMs with a friendly GUI