AI Tools I've Tried
A simple, public directory of AI tools I've actually used—not a generic list.
The spark
Over the last couple of years I've tried a lot of AI tools, usually by saving them to bookmarks and testing them in real workflows. It quickly became hard to remember which ones actually saved time and which ones just added friction, so I wanted a single place to track the hits and misses.
What it is
- A simple, public directory of AI tools I've actually used—not a generic list.
- Short, opinionated notes on what each tool is good at, what it struggles with, and where it fits in a workflow.
- Tags and groupings by job-to-be-done (summarization, search, automation, note-taking, coding helpers, etc.) instead of by vendor.
Stack
- Browser bookmarks exported and cleaned up as the raw dataset.
- Notes maintained in Markdown/Notion, then published through the site's content system.
- Representative tools include things like Readwise Highlighter, Recall.ai, and Google's AI tools, with more added as I test them.
What I learned
- The same tool can be magical in one workflow and a drag in another; context matters more than feature lists.
- Writing down where a tool actually saved time is the best filter for deciding what to keep in your stack.
- A shared, living directory becomes a helpful complement to the Agent Use-Case Bible—use cases describe the jobs, and this page describes the tools that can do them.