Time is your greatest resource-and AI tools can actually give a lot of it back to you. I’m not talking about a small boost; I’m talking about shaving off five, ten, or even 20 hours per week from tasks that you dread. Here are five AI tools that will fundamentally change your productivity.
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ChatGPT – Saves your writing time It takes so much time to sit down and write things that you’re obligated to – emails, reports, social media posts, proposals – but these could be written by AI in a few seconds. You tell it what you want, how much detail, and it spits out a good first draft in seconds that you can then just edit and personalize. If you write anything at all, this could save you anywhere from two to five hours of your week. 2.
Otter.ai – Saves your note-taking time If you’re in a lot of meetings or lectures, you know how hard it is to both actively listen and take notes simultaneously.
Otter.ai allows you to record and automatically transcribe these sessions, giving you a text version that you can easily search and review later. For some people – specifically those who attend a lot of meetings or lectures – this one alone can easily save you an hour a day. 3.
Notion AI – Saves you planning and organizing time Notion now has an AI component, which will seriously level up your planning, outlining, and project management. Instead of spending half an hour manually planning a project or writing out meeting minutes, Notion AI will spit out a decent outline for a plan in seconds. If you’re already using Notion, it’s a lifesaver. 4.
Canva AI – Saves your design time While you might think designing graphics and posts for social media or a presentation would require tons of time and experience with a software like photoshop, Canva makes it easier.
But with the added AI features like an image generator or a background remover, this time has been drastically cut even more-what took me an hour in photoshop, can be made in seconds on Canva Ai. 5. Perplexity AI – Saves your research time Searching through Google, looking at ten different articles to put an answer together, or even searching the internet for a fact can be incredibly time-consuming. Perplexity AI is sort of like having a super-powered research assistant that gives you coherent and sourced answers quickly, instead of dozens of websites you need to go through and evaluate.
In-house, it saves hours per week of research.
Closing thoughts These five tools are all free to use or come with an absolutely sufficient free version. Seriously, just starting with one or two can already dramatically improve your productivity, and the savings will really pile up in just the first week you incorporate one or more into your workflow. It’s probably most impactful if you jump on ChatGPT first-it’s the most broadly applicable.
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