7 Insanely Useful AI Tools to 10x Your Efficiency

Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we work, learn, and create. With the right tools, you can save time, boost productivity, and achieve more than ever before. Here are seven game-changing AI tools that will skyrocket your efficiency and make your life easier.

1. NotebookLM: Your Personal Coding and Math Assistant

This is Google's powerhouse notebook assistant. Although that may sound boring, it's actually extremely useful!

If you need to code an app or website, it can do that for you and help you learn along the way! It will explain difficult to understand concepts in a way that anyone can understand. It can analyze your data by coding data cleaning, visualization and statistical analysis and generate graphs.

It can understand and deduce meaning based on your natural language prompts, so if you ask it how to do something like, how do I calculate the mean of a dataset, it will explain it or show you how. It can save you tons of time with automating tasks as well!

Basically, it's like having a professional coder and math tutor all in one at your fingertips!

Try it here: NotebookLM (FREE & Paid Versions (@0-$30/mo bundled w/ Gemini for Google Workspace add-on)

2. Otter AI: Real-Time Transcription and Summarization

This amazing transcription tool, takes long boring meeting, lectures, or conversations, and converts them into written text in real time. That way you don't have to write everything down yourself.

It can separate and labels who the speaker is, so you can follow along later while you're reading or editing. It therefore allows you to search in the text for specific words or phrases, allowing you to find the information quickly, without all the scrubbing back and forth on the audio.

It will also summarize the meetings into cliff notes and key points, and cut out the noise. The best part? It also integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams.

With all that extra time you'll be able to read Mattyverse content in class!

Try it here: Otter AI (FREE and Paid Plans ($17/mo for Pro, $30/mo for Business, Custom price for Enterprise)

3. Napkin AI: Visualize Your Ideas

This innovative tool is changing the way you brainstorm and build ideas, using generative diagrams, charts, and sketches.

It creates full articles with informative infographics. Just type in your idea or a description, and it will create flowcharts, diagrams, or other visuals to help explain it. You don't have to design anything, the AI does it all for you.

It will create multiple options for each idea and allow you to pick and choose which one to go with. You can also collaborate with your team and work together in real time, seeing all the changes each team member is making. Exporting the file at the end is simple, and it supports PNG, PDF, or even SVG.

It's honestly like having that super organized nerd in high school to take all your notes and do all the work, for you to just take all the credit!

Try it here: Napkin AI (FREE and Paid Plans (FREE for Pro during beta, Custom price for Enterprise)

4. Perplexity: The Ultimate Search Tool

This game changing search tool, combines the best of Google with the best of ChatGPT to create the ULTIMATE search tool! You'll never use Google search again!

You can ask it any question and it will search the web to give you a straightforward answer and even cite sources. It's conversational memory means you can ask follow up questions and it will understand the context. It can write essays, summarize content, and generate images for you as well!

It also has special modes so you can focus your questions and search to a specific area, like Academia or Math. It also allows you to collaborate with a team in it's "Spaces" feature.

I just don't know if Perplexity can catch on as a verb. Can you Perplexity something? Ugh.

Try it here: Perplexity (FREE and Paid Plans ($20/mo for Pro)

5. Gamma AI: Create Presentations and Websites in Minutes

This streamlined tool will create all of your documents, presentations, and even websites for you. With just a few ideas, you can have a fully fleshed out presentation for you school, or boss, or a fully functioning website, for your customers.

Powerpoint eat your heart out! Gamma will create professional looking slides, complete with information, examples, and images all laid out for you in seconds. Need a simple website? Gamma can take your idea and make it a reality!

This would be great for someone that just wants an online presence but doesn't have the time or skillset to build one! The designs it creates are fully customizable and easy to drag around and edit them if you aren't completely happy with the results.

Again, collaboration was in mind, and you can work together as a team in real time!

You can save to your computer, so you can access it anywhere offline, on a .ppt or PDF.

So hit that alarm 57 times, cause Gamma AI has got you!

Try it here: Gamma AI (FREE and Paid Plans ($8/mo for Plus, $15/mo for Pro)

6. Gemini Deep Research: Your Personal Research Librarian

A lot like OpenAI's Operator, Gemini Deep Research does just that. Deep Research. You just ask a question like, "What are the latest trends in renewable energy?, and it builds a step by step plan to find information and lets you see it and tweak it if you want.

It spends a longer time that a standard search AI, digging into every facet of your topic, deep into the bowels of the internet and gathers all the information that is relevant. It then outputs an easy to read, in depth article, with key points, charts, and even cites sources for your review.

Research that would usually take you hours or days, now condensed into a few minutes!

It's like having a super smart librarian that has access to all the information and can find and explain it all to you.

Try it here: Gemini Advanced (FREE 2 MONTH TRIAL -> Paid Plan ($20/mo for Google One AI which includes it)

7. Cursor AI: The Ultimate Coding Companion

This super focused coding AI is like having a friend that spent his whole life coding and doesn't know anything else. Like all coding AI tools, you can tell Cursor what you want in plain English and it will code it for you. It may take some tweaks to get exactly what you want, but you don't have to worry about syntax.

If you have a mistake in your own code, you can ask Cursor to find it and fix it, and it will do that. In seconds. No more late nights, auditing thousands of lines of code, crushing Redbulls.

If you arent sure what a piece of code does, just ask and it will explain it to you. Cursor can also "auto correct" your code, by simplifying it or suggesting efficiencies.

It's a great tool if you don't know how to code, and it makes it easy to learn as well. It can also take your code and add to it, by creating whole sections that is adapted to your already prewritten code. Cursor makes ANYONE a professional coder.

It's the ultimate fake it 'til you make it tool!

Try it here: Cursor AI (FREE and Paid Plans ($20/mo for Pro, $40/mo for Business)

Conclusion

These seven AI tools are designed to make your life easier, whether you’re coding, researching, brainstorming, or creating presentations. Try them out, and you’re guaranteed to fall in love with at least a few and it will 100% skyrocket your efficiency!