Keep productive

Happy Hump Day! In today’s digest, I’m covering some newly released AI tools that are designed to help you work smarter, not harder. But first…

The headlines: 

🤝 Open AI and Condé Nast have signed a content training agreement. 

📺 Samsung’s newest monitor lets you play 3D games without glasses.

✨ Google has added new Gemini features to help you write emails faster.

Work is changing fast, and AI is at the heart of this transformation. These days, AI isn’t just for tech experts—it's making everyone’s life easier by handling everything from repetitive tasks to creative brainstorming.

But with so much on our plates, keeping up with it all can still feel overwhelming. That’s where AI-powered productivity tools come in. These tools are built to help you work smarter, not harder, so you can get more done with less stress . Here are some of the latest AI tools that will boost your productivity and give you more time to focus on what really matters:

Recap generates an email roundup of your recent notes and bookmarks. From there, you will get a digest of the most important pieces sent to your email at a time when you will actually read it. 

Alterfy is an AI-powered meeting reduction platform. When you schedule a meeting, the AI analyzes whether it’s needed or if it could be a message and recommends canceling it or not. 

Quuu's AI-driven platform automatically curates and schedules engaging and natural-sounding content for you to share daily in your brand voice.

Sparkle uses AI to create a unique folder system and organize every new file (and all your old ones) into the right place.

Coldreach helps you do cold outreach by spotting buying signals in job posts, news, and LinkedIn with AI, as well as suggesting messaging for outreach.

So if you’ve been struggling with completing some of the more tedious day-to-day tasks, why not hand them off to AI and focus on what really matters? 

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DEVELOPER TOOLS 

Phase is an open source platform for fast-moving engineering teams to secure and deploy application secrets — from development to production.

Screen Ruler is a browser extension that lets you quickly measure any element on a size. You can find and extract sizes, distances, margins, and paddings. 

SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS 

Feed Page lets you connect all of your social media accounts and share your updates in a single customized page.

Tweetlio is an AI-powered assistant that lets you schedule your tweets, find inspiration from viral tweets, and auto-engage with your audience.

FUN TOOLS 

Reddit Roast analyzes your Reddit profile for posts and comments, and from there, it uses AI to roast your persona. 

“Cold email worked so well that technology evolved to make cold email incredibly easy to do, which in turn destroyed the effectiveness. But after rapidly experimenting with several approaches, we conclude that cold email should not be abandoned.”

Cold email can be a contentious issue. It’s been so overused that its effectiveness has been called into question recently. Nathaniel Houghton, the founder of growth studio Incendium, has penned an A+ piece arguing that while it might not work as it once did, it’s still a useful tool.