🚀 AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity – Daily Pick (Rev 44)

This 44th edition of “AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity” spotlights three new tools focused on meetings, document Q&A, and async communication. Each one is fresh to your series and chosen to help you capture discussions, interrogate PDFs, and share updates without more meetings.

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Read AI 📞

Read AI is a meeting copilot that automatically joins your calls, records them, and generates concise summaries, action items, and highlights. It works across major platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, and can also process recordings you upload after the fact.

Teams use Read AI to ensure nothing important gets lost in conversation while avoiding the burden of manual note-taking. With searchable transcripts and smart recaps, it becomes much easier to review decisions, assign owners, and follow up on next steps.

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ChatPDF 📄

ChatPDF transforms static PDF files into interactive chat sessions, allowing you to upload a document and then ask natural‑language questions about its content. It analyzes the PDF and returns direct answers, along with referenced sections, without you needing to scroll through dozens of pages.

Researchers, students, and professionals rely on ChatPDF to quickly extract key information from reports, manuals, and papers. This turns long PDFs into responsive knowledge sources, saving time and reducing the chance of missing critical details.

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Loom AI Companion 🎥

Loom’s AI Companion enhances async video messages by automatically generating titles, summaries, chapters, and transcripts as soon as you finish recording. It can also pull out key moments and suggested follow‑up items, making Loom videos far easier to scan and act on.

Founders, managers, and remote teams use Loom with AI to replace status meetings with quick videos that are still easy to digest. Viewers can skim the summary or jump straight to the relevant chapter, while creators spend less time editing or writing separate notes.

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Previous editions – full archive 📚

• Rev 43: Yuma AI, Formula Bot, Assista AI
• Rev 42: Workbeaver AI, doc‑e.ai, Coworker.ai
• Rev 41: Reclaim.ai, Beam Email Triage AI Agent, Cursor
• Rev 40: Saner.AI, Second Brain (Visual Board)
• Rev 39: Reflect, AskSurf, ChatSlide
• Rev 38: Plus Snapshots, Motion, Todoist with AI
• Rev 37: Paperguide, Microsoft Whiteboard + Copilot, Elicit
• Rev 36: Knowing®, AI Chrome Assistant, Boltic
• Rev 35: Docupilot, AI Spreadsheet Assistant, EARLY
• Rev 34: Clockwise, Timely, Novelcrafter
• Rev 33: Orvo, Clay, Habitify
• Rev 32: Miro Assist, Shelf AI, Jamie AI
• Rev 31: Skyvern, Buzz Mail by Hive, Jeeva Smart Inbox AI
• Rev 30: Knowmax, Document360, Teamwork.com (AI project features)
• Rev 29: Freedom, Saima AI, Granola
• Rev 28: Reclaim AI, Zoho Projects with Zia AI, Goblin Tools
• Rev 27: INK AI, Levity AI, Flair AI
• Rev 26: Frase AI, Workato AI, Content at Scale AI
• Rev 25: SEO Writing AI, RightBlogger, Kloudio AI
• Rev 24: Dashworks AI, Nextatlas, OpusClip
• Rev 23: Lindy AI, Gumloop, Vellum AI
• Rev 22: Typedream AI, Scribe AI, Slite AI
• Rev 21: Fireflies AI, Supernormal, Bardeen
• Rev 20: Compose.ai, Rationale, Harpa AI
• Rev 19: Lume AI, Writerly, Heyday
• Rev 18: SaneBox AI, TaskMagic, Respell
• Rev 17: Predis.ai, Vizard, AudioPen
• Rev 16: Krisp AI, Gamma Browser AI, Superflow AI
• Rev 15: Pika Labs Pika 1.0, Durable AI, Hints AI
• Rev 14: JustDone AI, Qodo CodiumAI, Manus AI Agent
• Rev 13: Flowise AI, Humata AI, Canva Magic Studio
• Rev 12: Flowise, Humata, Canva Magic Studio
• Rev 11: RunwayML Gen-2, Obviously AI, Drift AI
• Rev 10: Cognition Labs Devin, Glif.app, TypingMind
• Rev 9: Rewind AI, ChatGPT Voice, Uizard.io
• Rev 8: Jounce AI, Claude 3.5 Artifacts, Ideogram 2.0
• Rev 7: Tability, Gleap, Lex.page
• Rev 6: Perplexity AI, Descript, Taskade AI
• Rev 5: Superhuman Go, NotebookLM, Lumio AI
• Rev 4: Gamma.app, Mem.ai, ElevenLabs Dubbing Studio
• Rev 3: Tome, Otter.ai, Runway ML
• Rev 2: Google Gemini, ClickUp, Jasper
• Rev 1: Notion AI, Zapier, Claude