Back to basics: AI + personal productivity 📈

Hey AI Puppies,

Generative AI isn’t taking the world by storm because of its sci-fi subject matter or world-altering potential (although it does have plenty of that, too).

No, AI is here to stay for a far simpler reason: it can make your day easier, no matter how you spend your time.

If you’re still not convinced, think back to when Siri and Alexa first made their debut 📲

Whether you were gung-ho from the get-go or resisted them at first, by now, we’re willing to bet you use them on a weekly – if not daily – basis.

Slowly but surely, the generative AI tools that seem superfluous now will become a part of your routine, too. 

Why wait around for the inevitable, when you can tap into AI’s potential now? 🤔

No matter what you do for a living or how you utilize technology, there’s a tool out there that can make a difference in your day!

This week, we’re rewinding back to AI 101 to explore 5 tools (other than just ChatGPT) that can enhance your productivity today.

Let’s get into it!

Remember Everything From Every Meeting

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as hopping on an important call and powering through a productive agenda just to forget everything as soon as you hang up. Or, perhaps even worse, combing through meeting notes just to discover they’re as good as gibberish.

If you aren’t lucky enough to have an assistant (or would rather deploy their time on another task) , meet Backtrack, an AI that records, analyzes, and optimizes meeting notes.

Whether you use it on your own or invest in it for your team, get ready to say goodbye to post-meeting migraines.

All you have to do is…

👉 Connect it to Zoom, Slack, Google Meet, or Huddles and hit record. Or, if you’re in person, just open it up on your computer.

👉 Go back to your recording within 5 hours to extract the audio and visuals you want

👉 Ask the AI to create transcripts and summaries!

Once you get the hang of it, you’ll look as cool as their advertisement:

Go Beyond a Meeting With BrewNote

BrewNote is similar to BackTrack in that it pulls AI-powered notes from audio and video recordings, but it’s not just for meetings, and it doesn’t sync to your meet-up platforms.

Instead, you simply upload a recording directly to the BrewNote web browser to receive optimized notes and summaries ✍️

BrewNote’s straightforward model means…

👉 You don’t have to deal with connecting other apps

👉 You can receive AI-powered notes from any form of interview or conversation

👉 You don’t have to waste time re-reading transcripts to remember key points!

Here’s what a before and after looks like:

Easy peasy!

Leverage a Second Brain With Quivr

Even if you have the memory of an elephant, it’s impossible to remember everything.

Unless, of course, you have Quivr, a cloud-based AI where you can upload any type of document into a massive folder, then ask a chatbot to source specific information within your collection of documents.

Think of it as Google Drive or Mac Finder, but with an on-hand assistant who does the information digging for you.

Watch this video on the Quivr landing page to watch the tool come to life!

Cut Through the Noise of Your Smartphone

Information overload is real, and the evidence lies in your smartphone. Unless you’re the most type A of type As, your device is likely packed with disorganized notes in multiple places, screenshots that never get revisited, and links you forgot to click.

Though it’s only in Beta at the moment, Fabric aims to leverage AI to organize snippets of content on your behalf. 

Instead of spreading scraps of information across your phone and computer, Fabric will centralize drives, clouds, notes, links, and files in one home:

On top of sorting stuff you’d never sort on your own, you can also use the search bar to find the exact nugget you need! Click here to get early access to the beta.

Turn Your Workplace Into a Search Engine

The information overload isn’t just a personal problem – it can slow down an entire organization, too.

Enter Glean, a centralized platform similar to Fabric, but scaled up to the corporate level. It fuses information from every app your company already uses to make everything searchable, and, most importantly, findable.

But instead of having to search by file name or keyword like you already do on each individual app, users can ask the Glean chatbot dynamic, specific, and complex questions:

The goal? Minimizing the amount of time wasted on asking teammates for updates and tracking down the status of deliverables ✅

If you only get one chance to pitch an AI tool to your boss, Glean should be the one!

Your Next Assignment

You’ve been hard at work training all summer 🐶 If you need a breather from AI practice, go ahead and take this week off!

But if you’re determined to keep up the momentum, try implementing just one of these tools in your daily routine next week. For a simpler task, upload a Zoom recording to BrewNote. For a bigger challenge, try merging some information in Quivr 🧠

Let us know how everything goes with a tag on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok 📲

Enjoy the weekend, and enjoy these last few moments of summer! We’ll back this time next week with more 👋

Talk soon,

The AI Puppy