🚀 AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity – Daily Pick (Rev 37)
This 37th edition of “AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity” brings three brand‑new tools to your series, focused on research, meeting collaboration, and visual knowledge. Each one is designed to help you think deeper, collaborate smarter, and capture insights without extra busywork.
Paperguide 📚
Paperguide is an AI research assistant built for anyone who works heavily with papers, PDFs, or long-form reports. It combines AI search, PDF chat, citation-backed answers, and literature review automation in one place, turning huge reading lists into concise, structured insights.
Researchers, students, and knowledge workers can use Paperguide to discover key papers faster, extract the important arguments, and generate organized notes and outlines. This means less time scrolling through dense text and more time thinking, writing, and executing on what matters.
Microsoft Whiteboard + Copilot 🧩
Microsoft Whiteboard with Copilot brings AI into your team’s sticky-note brainstorming sessions. You can dump ideas onto a shared canvas and ask Copilot to cluster them into themes, summarize the board, or propose next steps—without anyone needing to manually reorganize everything.
For remote or hybrid teams, this combo turns messy workshops into clear, actionable plans. After a session, you walk away with clean summaries, grouped ideas, and suggested actions that keep projects moving forward instead of getting stuck in meeting notes.
Elicit 🔍
Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant focused on literature reviews and evidence gathering. You ask a question, and Elicit searches a curated academic database, surfaces relevant papers, and extracts key points, methods, and results into easy-to-scan tables and summaries.
This is perfect for founders validating ideas, analysts checking assumptions, or researchers mapping a new domain. Elicit reduces the time it takes to understand “what the literature says” from days to hours, so you can move faster while staying grounded in real data.
Previous editions – full archive
- Rev 36: Knowing®, AI Chrome Assistant, Boltic
- Rev 35: Docupilot, AI Spreadsheet Assistant, EARLY
- Rev 34: Clockwise, Timely, Novelcrafter
- Rev 33: Orvo, Clay, Habitify
- Rev 32: Miro Assist, Shelf AI, Jamie AI
- Rev 31: Skyvern, Buzz Mail by Hive, Jeeva Smart Inbox AI
- Rev 30: Knowmax, Document360, Teamwork.com (AI project features)
- Rev 29: Freedom, Saima AI, Granola
- Rev 28: Reclaim AI, Zoho Projects with Zia AI, Goblin Tools
- Rev 27: INK AI, Levity AI, Flair AI
- Rev 26: Frase AI, Workato AI, Content at Scale AI
- Rev 25: SEO Writing AI, RightBlogger, Kloudio AI
- Rev 24: Dashworks AI, Nextatlas, OpusClip
- Rev 23: Lindy AI, Gumloop, Vellum AI
- Rev 22: Typedream AI, Scribe AI, Slite AI
- Rev 21: Fireflies AI, Supernormal, Bardeen
- Rev 20: Compose.ai, Rationale, Harpa AI
- Rev 19: Lume AI, Writerly, Heyday
- Rev 18: SaneBox AI, TaskMagic, Respell
- Rev 17: Predis.ai, Vizard, AudioPen
- Rev 16: Krisp AI, Gamma Browser AI, Superflow AI
- Rev 15: Pika Labs (Pika 1.0), Durable AI, Hints AI
- Rev 14: JustDone AI, Qodo (CodiumAI), Manus AI Agent
- Rev 13: Flowise AI, Humata AI, Canva Magic Studio
- Rev 12: Flowise, Humata, Canva Magic Studio
- Rev 11: RunwayML Gen-2, Obviously AI, Drift AI
- Rev 10: Cognition Labs Devin, Glif.app, TypingMind
- Rev 9: Rewind AI, ChatGPT Voice, Uizard.io
- Rev 8: Jounce AI, Claude 3.5 Artifacts, Ideogram 2.0
- Rev 7: Tability, Gleap, Lex.page
- Rev 6: Perplexity AI, Descript, Taskade AI
- Rev 5: Superhuman Go, NotebookLM, Lumio AI
- Rev 4: Gamma.app, Mem.ai, ElevenLabs Dubbing Studio
- Rev 3: Tome, Otter.ai, Runway ML
- Rev 2: Google Gemini, ClickUp, Jasper
- Rev 1: Notion AI, Zapier, Claude