🚀 AI Tools That Actually Boost Productivity – Daily Pick (Rev 83)

This 83rd edition highlights agentic automation: tools that don’t just answer questions, but actually take actions across your apps and workflows. Each pick is new to your series and chosen to help you move from “using AI in a tab” to “AI quietly running parts of your day.” 🎯

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n8n – Visual Workflows With AI in the Middle 🧩⚙️

n8n is a source‑available workflow automation platform that lets you connect apps, APIs, and AI models in powerful multi‑step flows. You can build automations like “when a form is submitted, enrich it with AI, route it based on intent, and create tasks or tickets” using a visual canvas instead of raw code.

Teams use n8n to stitch together tools that normally don’t talk to each other, with AI handling classification, summarization, or decision steps. The result is a library of always‑on workflows where AI quietly triages, enriches, and routes work before a human ever needs to touch it.

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Botpress – Build Custom AI Agents and Chatbots 🤖💬

Botpress is an AI agent builder that combines a visual flow designer with code hooks for advanced behavior and integrations. It supports multiple LLMs, connects to APIs, and can deploy agents across channels like Slack, web chat, and more, all while giving you deep analytics on how conversations perform.

Organizations use Botpress to create domain‑specific agents that can answer questions, surface data, and trigger back‑end actions securely. With reusable components and detailed analytics, each new bot gets easier to build, test, and improve over time.

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Slack AI & Workflow Automations – Agents Inside Your Chat HQ 💼⚡

Slack has evolved from a messaging app into a work OS with AI summarization, search, and workflow automation built in. Recent AI workflow features let you trigger automations and even interact with AI agents directly in channels, turning them into digital teammates that can summarize threads, draft responses, or kick off tasks in connected tools.

Teams adopt Slack AI and workflows so more work happens where conversations already live. Instead of bouncing out to separate dashboards, you ask an agent to summarize a meeting thread, update a project, or pull key metrics—right inside the channel where your team is already coordinating.

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Previous editions

• Rev 82: Daily Planner New‑Tab Dashboard – Today at a Glance; Todoist Chrome Extension – Capture Tasks From Anywhere; Clockify Chrome Extension – Time Tracking That Follows Your Work.
• Rev 81: NotebookLM – Chat With Your Own Sources; Mem – Self‑Organizing AI Notes; DocuWriter.ai – Automatic Documentation From Real Workflows.
• Rev 80: Chili Piper – Instant Routing and Scheduling for Revenue Teams; Avoma – Conversation Intelligence That Fills Your CRM; Scratchpad – Frictionless Salesforce Workspace for Reps.

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