Chapter 1: What are the benefits of using AI tools in daily work?
What if you had a team of 10 assistants, each one a specialist, working alongside you every day? That's essentially what I feel like I have this year with new AI tools. And today I'm sharing my lineup. Hi, I'm Jeremy Kaplan. You're listening to the audio version of Wonder Tools, my weekly newsletter where I test digital tools so you don't have to.
You can find the full post with all the links at wondertools.substack.com. These 10 tools have helped me to approach work with more experimentation and more exploration. Let me walk you through them quickly. First up, Notebook LM. This is Google's free tool for exploring your own notes and documents.
You can upload up to 50 files on any topic, then turn them into summaries, quizzes, reports, slides, or as of December 18th, data tables. It's like having a research assistant who's read everything you've collected, and it's completely free. Number two, Claude. This is my go-to AI assistant. I use Claude projects to give Claude context about my work up front.
I upload documents and files and notes, so I never start from scratch. I've also been using Claude to make simple apps, like an alt text generator, even a music ear training game. Third, Granola. I rely on Granola AI for meetings, conference sessions, and interviews. I take my own notes while it transcribes in the background.
Afterward, I get an excellent AI summary that draws from both my own notes and the AI transcription. It's transformed how I capture conversations. Fourth, Perplexity. Think of this as a briefing assistant. like a presidential brief that's created just for you. When I need to get up to speed on a topic fast, perplexity gives me that useful summary plus sources to dig deeper into. Fifth, Gemini.
Sometimes you want questions and not answers. Gemini, which is Google's AI model, has a feature called guided learning that walks you through a topic like a tutor. It asks you questions, quizzes you, even makes you infographics or web pages. And it lets you steer. It's great for actually learning, not just skimming.
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Chapter 2: How does Notebook LM enhance productivity?
Sixth, Idiogram. This is my favorite AI tool right now for generating images, posters, graphics, illustrations. If you need visuals for a presentation or a document or a social post, you can give it a try. Seventh, Superhuman. This email assistant saves me about an hour a week.
It loads really quickly, has great keyboard shortcuts, and the calendar integration is really helpful for adding a calendar event automatically from an email. Eighth, Craft. I use Craft for digital handouts, visual documents with colorful covers that feel friendlier than long, dry text blocks.
You can now layer in AI features as well with Craft or connect your notes to your preferred AI assistant. It has a funny link, which is craft.do. Ninth, Gamma. The fastest way I know to turn a document into polished slides is using Gamma, which does so really nicely and elegantly. You can also use it to spin up simple websites just as easily as you might a slide deck.
I would say that Nopogalem is now a close competitor in terms of generating slides really easily and quickly from a document. And 10th, ChatGPT. The December update to its image generation is impressive. And just recently, ChatGPT also added an app store so you can connect all kinds of apps you use to ChatGPT, which makes it even more useful than it has already been.
You can use it to repair an old photo, polish a headshot, or create illustrations for a project. That image generation capability is increasingly compelling. So that's the quick tour of some of my AI favorites for 2025. For all of the details, links, and my full guides to several of these tools, visit wondertools.substack.com.
And if you have a favorite AI tool that's not on my list or a creative way you're using one of the tools that I have included, I'd love you to leave a comment. I read every single one and I reply to many of them. Happy holidays wherever you are. And thanks for listening.
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