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CATEGORY 15 · 17 TOOLS

Productivity & knowledge

Notes, meetings, email and personal knowledge tools with AI built in.

ESSENTIAL IN PRODUCTIVITY & KNOWLEDGE

  1. Gamma

    AI design partner for presentations, websites and social posts from a prompt.

    FREE TIER

  2. Granola

    AI notepad that transcribes meetings without a bot and turns your rough notes into clean meeting notes and actions.

    FREE TIER

  3. Notion

    Connected workspace for docs, wikis and projects with Notion AI and agents ('where teams and agents think together').

    FREE TIER

All 17 Productivity & knowledge tools

  1. Gamma

    AI design partner for presentations, websites and social posts from a prompt.

    EssentialFree tier

  2. Granola

    AI notepad that transcribes meetings without a bot and turns your rough notes into clean meeting notes and actions.

    EssentialFree tier

  3. Notion

    Connected workspace for docs, wikis and projects with Notion AI and agents ('where teams and agents think together').

    EssentialFree tier

  4. Buzz (Block)

    Open-source (Apache-2.0) team chat workspace from Block, Inc. where people and AI agents share channels, DMs, canvases, git, workflows and huddles.

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  5. Cap

    Open-source screen recorder and Loom alternative (macOS, Windows, Linux).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  6. CleanShot

    Pro screen capture and recording for Mac (CleanShot X).

    Worth a lookPaid

  7. FocuSee

    AI-powered screen recorder that auto-edits recordings into polished videos (Windows & Mac).

    Worth a lookFree trial

  8. Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)

    AI research tool and thinking partner that analyses your sources and turns them into clear outputs.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  9. Google AI Edge Foresight

    Free, experimental on-device meeting companion app for Macs with Apple silicon, from Google AI Edge.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  10. MonoDesk (Envato)

    New all-in-one workspace from Envato for freelance creatives and small studios: leads, proposals with e-signature, projects and tasks, weekly…

    Worth a lookFree tier

  11. Obsidian

    Free, flexible app for your private thoughts; widely used as a Claude 'second brain'.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  12. Otter.ai

    AI meeting notetaker for Zoom, Teams and Meet with live transcription, summaries, AI chat across meetings and an MCP server.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  13. Screen Studio

    Professional screen recorder for macOS with automatic zoom and smooth cursor.

    Worth a lookPaid

  14. Screenpipe

    AI memory for your computer: it records your screen, audio and meetings locally (on macOS, Windows and Linux) so you can search anything you saw or…

    Worth a lookFree tier

  15. Superhuman (Grammarly suite)

    Suite of Grammarly writing assistant, Superhuman Mail, Docs and the Go agent that works across apps.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  16. Serro

    'Agentic TPM' (technical programme manager) for engineering teams: connects Slack, Linear, GitHub, Jira, Zoom, Notion, email and your codebase, keeps…

    NicheContact sales

  17. Sutyo AI

    Personal memory app for iOS and Android: capture voice notes, conversations, screenshots, saved links and documents, then ask questions about them…

    NichePricing unknown