Every week I try a stack of new tools so you don't have to. Most of them get deleted within a day. This week, five actually earned a permanent spot in my workflow — and one of them replaced a $40/month subscription I'd had for two years.
Here's the quick version before I get into why each one matters:
- A meeting-notes tool that finally gets action items right
- A batch image-resizer that saves me 20 minutes every content day
- A writing assistant that's stopped trying to sound like a robot
- A scheduling tool with a genuinely useful free tier
- One I almost didn't include because it feels like cheating
