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Highlight, summarise, and chat with anything you read on the web.

Web-highlighter + AI extension. Save passages from any page, then ask AI for summaries, related ideas, or chat across your knowledge base. BYO key keeps your reading history private.

A set of small AI tools to help neurodivergent people get unstuck.

Goblin Tools is a collection of single-purpose AI utilities aimed at people who find everyday tasks overwhelming. Its best-known tool, Magic ToDo, recursively breaks a vague task into smaller steps with an adjustable difficulty ('spiciness') setting. Others reword text for tone (Formalizer), gauge the mood of a message (Judge), explain things simply (Professor), estimate effort, and turn brain-dumps into action lists.

ADHD-friendly AI personal assistant for notes, tasks, and email.

A personal knowledge and productivity assistant built for ADHD workflows. Its assistant, Skai, captures quick notes, auto-tags and organizes them, lets you chat over your own documents, and pulls tasks, email, and calendar into one workspace to fight context-switching and overwhelm.

The unified system for work.

Macro is a workspace that folds email, messages, documents, tasks, calls, and a lightweight CRM into one interface, with AI agents that share full workspace context. Documents use CRDTs for instant, offline-capable collaborative editing, and a unified inbox pulls in email and GitHub pull requests. It markets itself as faster than Superhuman, quieter than Slack, and simpler than Notion.

Open-source AI wearable that captures conversations and turns them into notes, tasks, and recall.

Omi is an open-source AI wearable from Based Hardware: an $89 pendant that listens to your conversations and screen, then transcribes them and generates summaries, action items, and a searchable memory through a companion app. The hardware and software are fully open source, so you can self-host the backend, bring your own model keys, and avoid the mandatory monthly cloud subscription most AI pendants charge. A developer community has built hundreds of apps on top of the platform.

One app for tasks and calendars, powered by AI.

Akiflow is a keyboard-first daily planner that pulls tasks from email, Slack, Notion, and dozens of other tools into a single inbox, then lets you time-block them onto a unified calendar. Its built-in assistant, Aki, handles AI scheduling, prioritization, daily briefings, and natural-language and voice commands. It runs on macOS, Windows, web, iOS, and Android with real-time sync.

A calendar, to-dos, and bot-free AI meeting notes in one app.

Amie combines a fast calendar, task management, and an AI meeting note-taker in a single app. It records meetings locally on your device — no bot joins the call — then generates summaries, action items, and follow-up drafts. Natural-language input adds events and tasks, and it connects to tools like Notion, Slack, and Linear.

AI text expander and autofill that automates repetitive typing.

Browser extension that automates repetitive typing and data entry across web apps. Users create reusable text snippets and templates, personalize them with contact data, and one-click autofill forms, CRMs, spreadsheets, and EMRs by moving data between open tabs. Its AI writing features are powered by OpenAI, and it works across Salesforce, Gmail, LinkedIn, Zendesk, and thousands of other sites.

Local-first workspace for docs, whiteboards, and databases.

AFFiNE is a local-first workspace that combines block-based docs, an infinite whiteboard canvas, and databases — an alternative to Notion and Miro. Pages flip between document and edgeless (canvas) modes, and AFFiNE AI helps draft, summarize, and turn outlines into mind maps and slides. It runs on web, desktop, and mobile, with self-hosting available via Docker.

AI YouTube summarizer that turns any video into key takeaways and timestamps.

Eightify is an AI summarizer for YouTube, delivered as a browser extension with companion mobile apps. It condenses a video into key insights, a short overview, and timestamped sections so you can grasp the main points in seconds and jump straight to what matters, with summaries and translations in 40+ languages. Summaries are generated using ChatGPT and Claude, and it handles videos up to several hours long.