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Best AI tools for productivity

Ranked for daily work: notes, meeting writeups, slide drafts, and repeat jobs you want off your plate.

Best here means our first pick for this job, not a measured score. How we rank.

10 of 10 picks

  1. 01

    Notion

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    Notes, docs, and light AI in one workspace.

    Workspace for notes and docs, with AI help inside the pages you already keep.

  2. 02

    n8n

    Free and paid

    Repeat work turned into a workflow you control.

    Workflow automation you can self-host. Connect apps and add AI steps you can see.

  3. 03

    Granola

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    Meeting notes without a bot joining the call.

    Meeting notes from your computer audio. It does not put a bot in the call.

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  4. 04

    Raycast

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    AI and shortcuts from the keyboard, especially on Mac.

    Keyboard launcher with AI commands, snippets, and shortcuts. Best known on Mac.

  5. 06

    Zapier

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    App-to-app automations with almost no setup.

    Connects apps into automations, including steps that call an AI model.

  6. 07

    Otter

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    Searchable notes from meetings a recorder joined.

    Records meetings and turns them into a transcript and notes.

  7. 09

    Perplexity

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    Mac tasks on local files, with the model on the machine.

    Answers questions from the web and shows the sources it used. The Mac app can also run Computer on the machine.

  8. 10

    Hob

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    Local files with an open-weight model, including fully offline.

    Free, MIT-licensed desktop app that works on your local files with open-weight models, and it can run fully offline.