🚀 AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity – Daily Pick (Rev 40)

This 40th edition of “AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity” brings three brand‑new tools into your series, focused on goal setting, second‑brain thinking, and visual knowledge. Each one is designed to help you turn ideas into action while keeping your work and memory organized.

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ClickUp Goals 🎯

ClickUp Goals is the goal‑tracking layer inside ClickUp that lets you define objectives, link them to tasks, and visualize progress in dashboards, timelines, and charts. You can break big goals into measurable targets and track them automatically as work is completed across your workspace.

Creators, teams, and solo operators use ClickUp Goals to keep daily tasks aligned with quarterly or yearly outcomes. Instead of letting goals drift into the background, they stay visible, measurable, and directly connected to what gets done each day.

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Saner.AI 🧠

Saner.AI is a “second brain” tool that combines AI chat with your notes, tasks, and saved content. You can capture ideas, documents, and links, then ask the built‑in AI to summarize, connect concepts, surface forgotten notes, or transform raw thoughts into plans.

For knowledge workers and founders, Saner.AI turns scattered information into a searchable, interactive knowledge base. It helps you recall what you already know, fill gaps with web results, and move from insight to action with smart reminders and suggestions.

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Second Brain (Visual Board) 🗂️

Second Brain is an AI‑powered visual board and knowledge base that lets you upload documents, videos, and other content, then interact with it through chat and a visual canvas. You can drop in resources, see how they relate, and ask questions to get summaries, insights, and next steps.

This is especially powerful for complex projects, research, or content workflows where there are many moving pieces. Instead of static folders, you get a living visual map of your knowledge that you can explore, rearrange, and build on over time.

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Previous editions – full archive

• 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