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The People's Picks: Top 5 AI Tools of 2024
Let's Cut Through The Tool 'Clutter'
Quick question: How many "game-changing" AI tools landed in your inbox this year?
Feels like a new one every day, right?
Let’s cut through the noise.
These are the top AI tools you told me made the biggest impact on your work in 2024.👇🏼
The 5 Tools That My Students Said Made Their Lives Easier in 2024 5️⃣
Fathom - For Meeting Notes
Turns endless Zoom calls into action items in Asana
Free plan available
Doesn't crash your browser like other options
Cuppa.sh - For SEO Content
Costs about 5 cents per article using both OpenAI or Anthropic API’s
Built-in SEO recommendations from live pages on Google
Can rewrite entire content from URLs (game changer for updating old content)
Descript - For quick Video Edits
1 hour free + 1 video on the free plan
$24/month for pro if you need more
Perfect for turning Zoom meetings into content
Tied DALL-E & Midjourney - For Images
Finally, you can use both in a browser (vs prior Midjourney via Discord)
Quick images with Dall-E
Use Midjourney search to find images and prompts as a starting point
Zapier - For Automation
Easiest to use by far, but not the cheapest
Works with 7,000+ tools you already use and love
Its AI tool is a great place to start
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The Hard Truth About AI in 2024 😵💫
Meanwhile, MIT found that workers using AI took 40% less time and produced 18% better quality work.
Think about that gap for a second.
Here is my list of AI Tools by usage:
ChatGPT-4 still leads the pack (I use it 45% of the time)
Claude 3.5 is my go-to for social content or when I need the larger context window (30%)
I split the rest between Gemini (significant recent improvements) and Llama (privacy and cost) via Sider.ai when I want a second opinion.
My Daily AI Go-To’s 🤠
Fathom - I’ve tested the majority of AI notetakers, and this wins for clean notes and easy formatting in tools I use, like Google email and Asana.
Zapier - I automate emails, reports, scraping websites, competitive intelligence, and lots of mundane work between the native platform (Gmail, Notion, etc) and ChatGPT.
Sider.ai - I like a second opinion to 3-4 prompts a day, and Sider makes that easy inline for non-confidential work.
But here's what matters...did you share them with your colleagues?
It takes just 4 seconds to forward this email… they’ll thank you! 🤝
‘Best of’ 2024 AI Tool Guides You May Have Missed 👀
P.S. You might notice some of these are behind a paywall. Why? Because we published over 20 downloadable resources and 104 articles in 2024. The free ride had to end as we 2x the AI resources for you in 2025. 😉