The Toolshed
An honest board. What's in daily use, what's on trial, what I retired.
№
Tool
Category
Status
Added
Note
№18
ElevenLabs
Media Generation
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
Best For - Voiceovers for videos - Audiobook creation - Multilingual content - Voice cloning for consistency …
№17
Gamma
Productivity & Docs
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
Best For - Quick internal presentations - Pitch decks (first drafts) - Document-style presentations - When de…
№16
Google NotebookLM
AI Assistants
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
Best For - Analyzing multiple documents together - Research synthesis - Creating "audio overviews" (podcast-s…
№15
LM Studio
Coding & Development
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
What It Does Run LLMs locally on your machine with a clean GUI. Download models from Hugging Face, chat with …
№14
Microsoft Copilot
AI Assistants
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
What It Does Microsoft's AI assistant embedded across the entire Office ecosystem. Drafts documents, analyzes…
№13
Ollama
Coding & Development
IN ROTATION
JAN 26
What It Does Command-line tool for running LLMs locally. Pull models like Llama, Mistral, or Gemma with a sin…
№12
Beautiful.ai
Productivity & Docs
RETIRED
JAN 26
Best For - Teams needing brand consistency - Frequent presenters - When you need more control than Gamma - Po…
№11
Bolt.new
Coding & Development
RETIRED
JAN 26
Best For - Rapid prototyping full-stack apps in the browser - Frontend developers who want instant preview - …
№10
Cursor
Coding & Development
RETIRED
JAN 26
What It Does AI-first code editor built on VS Code. Inline completions, multi-file editing with Composer, and…
№09
DALL-E
Media Generation
RETIRED
FEB 26
Best For - Quick image needs - Iterative editing with conversation - When convenience beats quality - Non-des…
№08
GitHub Copilot
Coding & Development
RETIRED
JAN 26
What It Does The original AI coding assistant. Suggests code completions, generates functions, and answers qu…
№07
Grammarly
Productivity & Docs
RETIRED
JAN 26
Best For - Non-native English speakers - Quick email polish - Consistent brand voice (Business plan) - Anyone…
№06
Midjourney
Media Generation
RETIRED
JAN 26
Best For - Marketing visuals - Concept art and ideation - Social media imagery - When quality matters more th…
№05
Miro
Product & Design Ops
RETIRED
APR 26
Shared whiteboard for diagramming, workshops, and async collaboration.
№04
n8n
Productivity & Docs
RETIRED
JAN 26
Best For - Technical teams - Self-hosting requirements - Complex automation logic - AI/LLM workflows - When y…
№03
Notion
Product & Design Ops
RETIRED
APR 26
All-in-one workspace for notes, docs, and lightweight project tracking.
№02
Notion AI
Productivity & Docs
RETIRED
JAN 26
What It Does Notion AI lives inside the workspace you already use. It writes drafts, summarizes pages, extrac…
№01
Tana
Comms & Meetings
RETIRED
FEB 26
What It Does Tana is a knowledge workspace that uses supertags to turn plain notes into structured, queryable…