Tools I use, tools I trust.

A curated stack of tools across AI, video, marketing, productivity, and more. Each personally tested and rated for Money & Meaning alignment. Referral links help support this site at no extra cost to you.

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🧪 My Experiments

☯ My Governing Stack (5:3:1)

Notion

⚡ Productivity

My #1 tool for personal (and professional) knowledge management. Now comes with Notion AI.

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Okara.ai

🤖 AI & Research

I cancelled all my other LLM subscriptions just so I can use a single private/local Okara. Haven't looked back yet.

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Windsurf AI

🧑‍💻 Developer Tools

My current #1 favorite AI IDE (editing tool) for more advanced coding needs.

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Cal.com

⚡ Productivity

Open-source scheduling infrastructure for modern teams and individuals.

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Descript

🎨 Creative Tools

Truly innovative platform for editing videos — you can edit the video by editing the transcript directly. They now also have an agent called "Underlord," which edits videos instantly for you based on what you describe.

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📝 Descript keeps coming in and out of my world. True game changer.

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ElevenLabs

🎨 Creative Tools

The best in the game for AI-driven audio. Use this to clone your own voice or even create your own voice-based chatbot for your site.

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Fathom Analytics

📣 Marketing & Growth

Privacy-focused website analytics — a simple, GDPR-compliant alternative to Google Analytics.

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NotionSocial

💬 Social & Community

Schedule and publish social media content directly from Notion. Turn your Notion workspace into a social media command center.

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Granola.ai

⚡ Productivity

High-quality note-taking tool that I've been using for a while (but might get replaced by Notion AI soon).

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✦ Recommended Tools

Dia

🤖 AI & Research

My favorite AI-powered browser right now.

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Chef by Convex

🧑‍💻 Developer Tools

New AI builder tool (similar to Lovable, Bolt.new, etc.). Utilizes Convex for the database (better than Supabase imo). Sorts out db issues way faster than alternatives.

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TL;DV

⚡ Productivity

AI meeting recorder that captures, transcribes, and summarizes your video calls.

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Create.xyz

🧑‍💻 Developer Tools

AI builder tool headed in the right direction. Very community driven. Interviewed one of the co-founders.

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Opus Pro

🎨 Creative Tools

Really useful tool for clipping long video clips and publishing to social media instantly.

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Brand24

📣 Marketing & Growth

AI social media monitoring tool for tracking brand mentions and sentiment in real time.

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timeOS Pro

⚡ Productivity

AI-powered time management and meeting assistant that automatically logs and organizes your time.

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Clay

💬 Social & Community

Personal CRM that automatically organizes your relationships and reminds you to stay in touch.

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BeeHiiv

📣 Marketing & Growth

Unique email boost network, great for marketing-focused newsletters.

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📝 Supported Tyler Denk (founder) from the early days of BeeHiiv.

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Swell.ai

🎨 Creative Tools

AI-powered podcast production tool that generates show notes, chapters, and clips.

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vidIQ

📣 Marketing & Growth

A great companion tool for enhancing your YouTube videos for greater reach.

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Super.so

🧑‍💻 Developer Tools

Turn Notion pages into fast, beautiful websites with custom domains and SEO built in.

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HeyGen AI

🎨 Creative Tools

AI-powered video creation platform for generating realistic avatar videos at scale.

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Fireflies.ai

⚡ Productivity

AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and searches across your meetings.

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Nas.io

💬 Social & Community

My #1 pick for managing multiple free WhatsApp communities.

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Taplio

💬 Social & Community

AI-powered LinkedIn growth tool for creating content, scheduling posts, and building your audience.

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Coolors

🎨 Creative Tools

The super fast color palette generator. Great for finding harmonious color schemes for any project.

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BlackMagic

💬 Social & Community

Twitter/X analytics and CRM tool for understanding your audience and managing relationships.

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LINER.ai

🤖 AI & Research

AI-powered research and reading assistant that highlights and summarizes web content.

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Postwise.ai

💬 Social & Community

AI Twitter/X ghostwriter that helps you create viral tweets and threads.

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AudioPen

⚡ Productivity

Voice-based AI notetaker from Louis Pereira. Provides a separate "space" for simple dictation that you can translate into any style of writing.

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📝 Really loved the simplicity of this app.

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Sunsama

⚡ Productivity

A great bridge app for connecting multiple task management tools (Jira, Trello, Linear, Notion, etc.). If you like your own workflows but manage clients who insist on theirs, Sunsama bridges the gap.

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HypeFury

💬 Social & Community

Twitter/X scheduling and automation tool for growing your audience and engagement.

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Framer

🧑‍💻 Developer Tools

My #1 pick for building and managing websites. Now has AI building tools straight within the app. Bridges older GUI-based interfaces with new text/prompt workflows.

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seobotAI

📣 Marketing & Growth

A tool from indie founder John Rush for automatically handling SEO using AI agents. Worth it!

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📝 I love following John Rush for his ability to create and manage multiple products at scale with a relatively small team.

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