It took me 1.5 hours to write, refine my writing, record into a video using Loom, edit the video using Loom AI, upload to my YouTube channel, and publish here on my website.
Done using these AI Tools.
This would have taken me at least 6 hours to do without AI Tools.
Summary
Grammarly is essential for online writing. I have the paid version; the free version is okay, but the paid version is far better. It uses AI that learns from your writing style to tidy up your writing, even if you’re a grammar expert. Grammarly will catch errors you miss and rephrase sentences for clarity.
I’m writing this in AudioPen. It uses AI to transcribe your speech clearly. You can use various transcription levels, and get AI to rewrite it in different styles. The free version gives you 5 minutes of thought, and the paid version, which is still quite cheap, gives you 15 minutes of talking and more depth.
Perplexity is the ChatGPT equivalent that looks at the web in real-time, which ChatGPT doesn’t. I use ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity interchangeably. Sometimes, I’ll ask all three, and you almost always get different versions. Then, you choose the best one.
Recall Cards is amazing. I’m still using the free version. You can put a YouTube video in there, and as you paste it into Recall Cards, it will summarise the video and keep a record, acting as your second brain. I use Evernote for my second brain, but I still use Recall Cards to summarise videos or PDFs; you can summarise anything, and they give excellent detailed summaries. If I watch a long video of relatively complex things I want to remember, I’ll watch it at 2x speed, and then get Recall Cards to summarise it.
Lex I use as well as Grammarly. Usually, I’ll talk something into AudioPen, get Grammarly to check it, and then chuck it into Lex. Lex can check for five or seven things: Grammar, Brevity, Cliches, Readability, Passive Voice, Confidence, Citation, and Repetition. That’s my final fine-tuning after Grammarly.
Sana: I’m using the free version. It automatically summarises Google Meet or Zoom meetings. It records a low-res video so you can revisit it without taking up too much space on your computer. So it gives you a brief summary, key topics, and action items. I found this invaluable.
Links to these AI Tools
- Audio Pen https://audiopen.ai/?aff=Yn2qW
- Grammarly https://grammarly.grsm.io/cc_scampbell
- Lex https://lex.page/
- Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai/
- Claude https://claude.ai/
- Recall Cards https://www.getrecall.ai/
- Sana https://sana.ai/
Test versions using Audiopen, Grammarly and Lex
Original Audiopen version
I think Grammarly is a must-have for everyone who writes anything on the web. I do have the paid version; the free version is ok, but the paid version is far better. It uses AI too, and it learns from your writing style. It uses AI to tidy up your writing, even if you’re a, sort of confess, grammar Nazi. Grammarly will pick up errors that you miss, as well as rephrase sentences to make them much clearer.
AudioPen, I’m writing this in AudioPen. AudioPen, you just talk into it, it uses AI to transcribe your speech in a really clear and simple way. You can use various levels of transcription, and you can, say, talk along an article, and then get AI to rewrite it in all sorts of different styles. The free version gives you 5 minutes of thought, the paid version, which is still quite cheap, gives you 15 minutes of thoughts, plus far more depth as to what you can do.
Perplexity is the ChatGPT equivalent that actually looks at stuff on the web, so you can ask it for very much up-to-date stuff. I actually use ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity interchangeably, and sometimes I’ll ask all three of them, and you almost always get different versions, and then you choose your best one from that.
Recall Cards is an amazing thing. I’m still using the free version of this. You can put a YouTube video in there, as you paste it into Recall Cards, it will summarize the whole video for you, and keep a record of it, and this can end up like your second brain for things that you want to keep. I happen to use Evernote for my second brain, but I still use Recall Cards to summarize videos, or PDFs, you can summarize anything, and they give very, very good detailed summaries. If I watch a long video of relatively complex things that I want to not forget, I’ll watch it at 2x speed, and then get Recall Cards to summarize it.
Lex I use as well as Grammarly. Usually when I write something, I’ll get Grammarly to, usually I’ll talk it into AudioPen, then I’ll get Grammarly to check it, then I’ll chuck it into Lex. Lex has the ability to, it will check for five or seven different things. It’ll check for Grammar, Brevity, Cliches, Readability, Passive Voice, Confidence, Citation, Repetition, and a custom one that you can add whatever you like. I fine-tune things finely, that’s my final fine-tuning after Grammarly.
And Sana, again, this is what I’m using as the free version. You get an X amount of credits on the free version, but what that does is summarize any Google Meet meetings or Zoom meetings, and this is all done automatically, and it records a low-res version of the video, so you can go back through it without taking up too much space in your computer. So it gives you a real brief summary, then key topics, and then action items. I found this invaluable.
Audiopen Dot Points
- Grammarly
- Audio Pen
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Recall Cards
- Lex
- Sana
Version after Grammarly and Lex
Grammarly is essential for online writing. I have the paid version; the free version is okay, but the paid version is far better. It uses AI that learns from your writing style to tidy up your writing, even if you’re a grammar expert. Grammarly will catch errors you miss and rephrase sentences for clarity.
I’m writing this in AudioPen. It uses AI to transcribe your speech clearly. You can use various transcription levels, and get AI to rewrite it in different styles. The free version gives you 5 minutes of thought, and the paid version, which is still quite cheap, gives you 15 minutes of talking and more depth.
Perplexity is the ChatGPT equivalent that looks at the web in real time, which ChatGPT doesn’t. I use ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity interchangeably. Sometimes, I’ll ask all three, and you almost always get different versions. Then, you choose the best one.
Recall Cards is amazing. I’m still using the free version. You can put a YouTube video in there, and as you paste it into Recall Cards, it will summarise the video and keep a record, acting as your second brain. I use Evernote for my second brain, but I still use Recall Cards to summarise videos or PDFs; you can summarise anything, and they give excellent detailed summaries. If I watch a long video of relatively complex things I want to remember, I’ll watch it at 2x speed, and then get Recall Cards to summarise it.
Lex I use as well as Grammarly. Usually, I’ll talk something into AudioPen, get Grammarly to check it, and then chuck it into Lex. Lex can check for five or seven things: Grammar, Brevity, Cliches, Readability, Passive Voice, Confidence, Citation, and Repetition. That’s my final fine-tuning after Grammarly.
Sana: I’m using the free version. It automatically summarises Google Meet or Zoom meetings. It records a low-res video so you can revisit it without taking up too much space on your computer. So it gives you a brief summary, key topics, and action items. I found this invaluable.
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