7 Fantastic Ai Tools for Productivity! *Late 2024*

there are so many AI tools out there but in today's video I'm going to be sharing seven AI tools that have actually helped me Skyrocket my productivity and these tools have helped me in so many ways from business to coding to research and there are things that I can do now that I couldn't do a year ago without these tools so stick around because I think you're going to find that some of these tools are extremely useful and they will Aid you in your productivity the first tool that I use multiple times per day is called called perplexity and perplexity is amazing because it brings all of the best of all of these different llms that you can choose from and it puts them in one solid interface so here we have the chat box that we're used to I can click into here and I can start typing anything but the neat thing is if you click on Focus right here you'll see that it has a bunch of different focuses that you can choose from for whatever it is that you're prompting so if you wanted to you could search the web more efficiently or or you could search for more scholarly uh respected papers and things like that if you have something that you're researching that has higher consequences or it's a little higher stakes and it will actually site those sources for you it also has a math mode a writing mode if you're just trying to do regular writing without using the web and you can have it even watch videos for you and research like YouTube videos and things like that and then here it has social which will search for things like Reddit or public public forums or different places online when it does it searching but here when I select web which is the default I can just search for anything and it's actually going to go out and do the research on my behalf so one thing that I've started to realize is this is changing the game for search we used to search based on keywords based on whatever we thought that the business or the provider of that content would put in their content right uh but now it's about asking questions and having intelligent search right so we can actually ask one question and then it will know all the rest of the questions to ask and it will actually delegate that research for us I'm just going to go ahead and ask it what is the market sentiment today for Commodities like I said I'm not the best speller I leave words out I leave letters out but overall it does a pretty good job at figuring out what I'm after and it'll fix it when it's actually doing its search for me and it's actually doing all of these searches so so it's doing more searching and more due diligence than you would have been able to do before because it's just doing it so much faster and it's actually aggregating all of these sources here and then it pulls information out like here we have information on oil prices facing downward pressure due to weak demand Outlook and if you hover here you can see exactly where that came from this one came from Rutters so I could click on this and see the article that it came from gold is showing some strength this one came from the India times wheat price prices are going up sugar prices are seeing a pause in Brazil so it's doing all of this amazing research on our behalf and then we can even ask follow-up questions and the neat thing here is is you can actually see that Claude 3. 5 Sonet was the model that it used now this is just one of those reasons that I love perplexity so much perplexity allows you to use any model here and you pretty much use it without cap well I'm not saying that there's not a cap I just haven't ever reached it with a lot of these llms that I'm using these days run into caps where it says you can't prompt again for another x amount of hours but with perplexity I've never gotten shut down so the cool thing is is you don't have to pay for all these other subscriptions you can just use perplexity especially if you're a light user and you don't like the interfaces on the other platforms perplexity will work just fine for you for instance if I wanted to use perplexity for coding then I would actually change my focus to web I would probably still keep it on web I wouldn't change it to writing because I want to actually do some research on the web so I'm just going to say research some features that would make Tetris more fun then code a better version using python now here's this prompt that I've created research some features that you can make Tetris more fun with and this is something that you can't really do if you're just talking to Claude straight up if you're talking to chat gbt straight up even though it will use web search sometimes because perplexity will understand that this means we need to actually create some web queries we need to make some web searches and it's going to do that before it does anything else so that it actually has that information to move forward with whereas some of the other tools out there are not going to understand what you mean by research because it's probably not hardcoded into whatever the layers that they have between the model are here in perplexity and that's where the real magic happens so I'm going to go ahead and send this off and see what we get so it's showing us what it searched it's researching the features that would improve the fun Factor Tetris and now it's coding a better version of Tetris and right here we have all the code for that so let's go ahead and see once it loads how this works I'm going to go ahead and give this a try so I'll just call this Tetris dopy and I'll paste that code sometimes you're going to have to install Pi game I probably already have it installed but if you do pip install P game there we go requirement already satisfied now let's go ahead and let's hit run all right it looks like it worked I don't know if it did anything different here or added any features but this code is pretty solid and I can tell it knows what Tetris is how it works let's go ahead and see what happens when we get a full row here here we go we should get a row here and yeah it's a working version of Tetris I'm not sure what it added but now we could talk back and forth iterate on this and improve my code and this is something that I could do with web development too or product development you don't have to just do this with games but this is just a quick example to Showcase how powerful this really is all right so let's see what happens when I lose a game or let's see if it will make me lose the game if I reach the top here yep looks good so I don't know if there's anything unusual about that but it was a pretty solid implementation of Tetris now if you thought that that implementation of Tetris was cool then you're going to think this next tool is amazing because this tool helps you code even faster using Ai and that tool is cursor there hasn't been a co-pilot quite like cursor and cursor brings all of the Power of llms to your coding interface and it's actually forked off of and built off of the visual studio code that most of us are familiar with if you've ever done any sort of coding but if you haven't done any coding don't worry cursor is actually super easy to learn and most of it's just prompting they even have a free version so you can try it out and just get started and figure out if it's something that works for you just going to open up cursor for myself and here I have Tetris within cursor and if I hit command I I now get this text bar right here that is interacting with Tetris dop so if I tell it you know uh turn the shapes into sand when they hit and add physics and change the rule so that a certain color of sand has to match up across the entire thing from wall to wall to get a row deleted it no longer should delete the row if it's just filled make the sand move dynamically when it lands so I've seen this version of Tetris and it actually like basically turns the shapes into sand when they land so they call it sand Tris I guess there's a lot of different iterations of it let's go ahead and see if cursor can actually do this so it's basically just going to figure out what it needs to do figure out how it needs to implement and now it's actually interacting with this file right here and generating new code to implement and by the way as you can see here it's using Claude 3. 5 Sonet you can also swap out your model and try something different if you don't want to use Claud for your coding but this is the best one that I've found so if I hit accept all now it's actually implemented that right into this Tetris piy so if I hit play now if I the code let's go ahead and see if it works okay that did seem to have some like physics to it and it's not letting me turn things anymore let's see if this yeah that kind of has like some Physics to it it's not quite what I was thinking oh but it actually is kind of like squishing down like sand uh it's just on the cube level so let's see okay that fills it in let's see if it actually fills it if I get a full color across let's see if I can get this yellow all the way across or honestly the red let's just go for the red oh it didn't connect okay it mixed I see see what this does okay so this yellow is still connecting all right Plan B we're going for blue so that's almost there that should work right about now okay so that didn't seem to work maybe it needs to be within the same row that there's all one color well that's the beauty of cursor let's just say fix this and make it turn into actual sand particles and have them slide and fall and they don't have to be connected in the same row they can be connected from wall to wall as long as the sand particles are touching so I've instructed it to fix this and basically turn it more into like a sand particle instead of just keeping that same cell form and I also instructed it that they just need to connect from wall wall with the particles touching they don't need to be in the same cell row so it's actually doing the coding here for me it's changing some things out for me I'm just going to hit accept all save all and I'm going to hit run code and it's snowing all right I made a small Improvement in the prompt let's see if this works okay still not sand particles but let's see if they at least work when they connect okay so all the colors are still wild cards it still works with every color it looks like yeah all right and it looks like I finally got a working implementation of this it took a little while it took a minute to prompt and it took some patience but now we have a working version of this game and it's only been about 15 minutes of prompting and testing this out to get this to work and now it's working exactly as intended it's even keeping score for me and I could continue going on with this project I could make it public onine line I could deploy it and you could really just keep going with cursor and that's why I really like this tool because it takes time to create some of these projects like I've tried to create this same project before just using claw and copy and pasting but when it doesn't have a consistent idea of the code base and you can't copy and paste the errors a couple times and continue testing with it you're not going to get nearly as good of results and it's not going to know what you're talking about a lot of the time and just keep in mind I know very very little about coding I mean I've just recently started learning python but other than that I know very little let's see what happens when I lose this game here all right it worked so yeah as I said I had a bit of a conversation with it a few times I just copy and pasted exactly what was showing up in the terminal and I walked through what I wanted for the sand and eventually it just took me saying Hey I want it to be more sand likee and I didn't have to do any crazy workarounds I just figured out what I meant by that the next tool that we're taking a look at you've already heard a lot about and that is Claude Sonet 3.

5 or any of the frontier Claude models that anthropic is releasing these models are just amazing and I love the projects feature the projects feature allows you to create a project with specific knowledge that you can reference in the future one of the examples that I like to use is an open sccad uh knowledge Library so basically this is an AI that understands open scad which open scad is basically this library that you can use to do CAD design or 3D design just using Code so this means that I can now do 3D modeling just by prompting so this is prompting to real world 3D modeling in fact here are some real world products that I actually created using this method so these are for my local town it's called marcelis so it's marcelis football right it's for the local football team and I've been able to print these in multiple colors on my 3D printer and I even was able to program in these little slots for magnets so now these serve as little magnets that can go on people's fridges and I did all of this just by prompting inside of a claw project now if you have a chat GPT subscription you can do a similar setup like this but I just prefer claw because it's better at coding so I'm just going to basically give this a name so I'll name the project open escad generator and what are we trying to achieve here generate scad files with a basic prompt if I hit create project now you're going to notice that I have project knowledge over here and project knowledge is where I'm going to upload all of the examples all of the code everything like that so I've got these two files here on my desktop one is called response examples and one is called open scad Basics if I open up open scad Basics this is actually something that I generated using perplexity I asked perplexity to create a basic guide with coding examples of how to use open scad so you can do the same you can just use perplexity just like I did and you can actually have it generate this document for you and give tips and things like that and then I also created some response examples so here I just showed user a b basic funnel assistant and I showed the type of code that it's going to Output of a basic funnel example of an open scad so let's go ahead and upload these different project knowledge pieces here and you'll see that it only used up 133% of my knowledge so I can put in a bunch of other knowledge here in my project and it's just going to make this tool even more powerful now let's say fir hydrant and as you can see it knows exactly what to do because I've uploaded all of those awesome EX examples and now it's generating an open scad model of a fire hydrant I can go ahead and copy the contents and you can actually download this free platform right here called open scad and what this is going to do is it's going to allow you to open up these different scad models so let's go ahead and render this now that I have this in here it is giving me this warning unable to parse color brass in file so if that gives us any issues uh we can fix that later but overall it did a great job of generating this fire hydrant right here all generated completely using Ai and now if I wanted to I could get this STL file right here you can just export this and basically put it anywhere on your computer and then that's how you can actually turn it into a 3D print so if you wanted to 3D print like I did with those magnets then you could actually do that using a CLA project just like this you can even give it specific measurements you can tell it how big you need the holes to be on the back of it or you you can tell how wide you want this fire hydrant to be now obviously it's not going to do super complex things like 3D models of lions like this like I tried to do um this one is just one that I picked up at a yard sale but um it can't do stuff like this because it is just coating shapes essentially so if you try doing something like this you might have luck trying to get it close but um I found the simpler stuff and the stuff that's just basic shapes connected together even if it's complex shapes connected together just with a very methodical approach that's what works better with these open scad files fantastic AI tool number four is notion now I use notion pretty much every single day and I'm using it right now as I film this video as you can see here film Seven Fantastic AI tools for productivity in 2024 and I'm actually tracking the script writing I've tracked that and right now I'm tracking the filming the filming is in progress so right now I'm on notion and I've already crossed off all of these other tools This is So Meta I'm using notion to talk about notion anyways it's just a super useful tool for collecting all of my different data then having an AI assistant right within it that can interact with that so for instance let's actually open this up and if I wanted to go into perplexity here and let's just unstrip that and I had a few things that I wanted to talk about with this right so let's just go ahead and hit improve writing it'll actually do inline AI work for me and it'll actually write all of this out so if I hit accept now I have a better way to explain this to people aside from having inline AI tools it also has the ability to create userfriendly databases and that's where I find the value in notion you can create these databases of your tasks your notes your goals and you can bring them from all different sources right now what you're looking at is the productive brain and I'll leave a link to this below if you want to learn more about it but this is basically where I have all of my different data my tasks my notes goals areas of my life sessions like the things within the tasks or the subtasks and then you have days where you can actually keep track of different habits like here I can make a habit called workout and it's automatically going to track work out for September 10th when I create a new day in here so that's super neat you can kind of connect up your current goals to your tasks and it has a great planning processing and installation view the latest version of productive brain even has a way that you can import all of your finances in here and it allows you to categorize your expenses and revenue the next Ru that you're going to want to look at is called air table and this is similar to notion in a lot of ways but in some ways it's less userfriendly I would say but if you're more of a developer and you care more about just the backend data and where it's moving this is basically like notion for developers or for low code no code developers right you can create these databases like videos and sources for different content that you're scraping and you can basically just pull it all into here and you can have it interact with AI so these scripts right here these are all generated by Ai and I have them all ported into this airtable and then from the script and from those prompts that are all AI generated it's going to create a style it's going to select out of those style options which one it wants to go with and then it's going to create images that it can create video based on and this is actually going to create viral videos for me so the way the air table is set up is it basically just puts all of your data in one place and you can query this data and use AI to interact with it the other nice thing about air table is they have this automations section right here and you can actually add triggers so that if something happens within your database or within another platform you can have web hook send and you can start automations or you can have different things happen within air table as well air table has its own AI features as well like generating summarizing and translating text categorizing data and powering automated workflows so if I hit plus right here and I click on AI as you can see I can generate text within a column and let let's just say I wanted to summarize right so we'll just do summarize and I'll start from scratch I'll just say summarize the content in this row and I can actually reference different pieces of content content so you can do some of your AI automations just right within air table you don't have to do them elsewhere so let's say We'll summarize this script and we'll also throw in the video title and I'll just hit create field now if I hit generate as you can see it's going to say generating and then it's actually going to generate that AI response so this is pretty neat and it's a good way that you could actually generate a lot of this text right within air table but what if you want to use tools outside of air table and you just want to use air table or notion as your backend database well look no further than make. com make is leading the way in automations and I used to be a big fan of their competitor zappier but make is just the best one out there I have nothing else to say with make you can actually create a lot of these automations that are running inside of your air table so in this particular instance I'm searching through all of the news articles for the past 48 hours and then I'm handing them over in one bundle to to chat GPT within here I'm prompting chat GPT to actually arrange those news stories into some titles some scripts some basically content ideas video ideas right and then it's parsing that down into a language that air table can read again and it's putting all that content back in so the beauty of make.