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Meta, McDonald's Mukbang, and The OpenAI Mess

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Granola

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Here’s what we like about this AI notepad app:

It uses a combo of your meeting transcription and your written notes to create a coherent, comprehensive resource.
It transcribes audio from your Mac directly, so no bots have to join your video calls.
You can customize various templates that apply to you, like 1:1s, discovery calls, etc.
It can even help with post-meeting stuff, like writing a follow-up email.

Hyperchill.io

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Hyperchill is a digital productivity journal.

It’s not a traditional timer app, ticking down the minutes you have left to turn something in.

Instead, you set an optional target time to complete a task and take intentional, judgment-free breaks.

You can toggle easily between “Deep Work” and “Break” modes until you’re ready to end your session. The idea is that drawing awareness to your periods of procrastination will help you work through it.

After a while, you can track your progress on a gorgeous dashboard, which is visited by an adorable cat.

AI Image Generator for Google Docs

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Who doesn’t love clip art?

Google Workspace is rolling out a Gemini-powered AI image generator directly in Google Docs for some paid accounts.

If you have access to the new feature, you can find it under Insert > Image > Help me create an image.

Then, type in a description, select an art style and size, and generate your image.

Jasper’s Brand IQ & Marketing IQ

Jasper now offers the industry’s first AI knowledge and context layer built specifically for marketers.

The proprietary Brand IQ and Marketing IQ tech lets you scale and optimize content and campaigns for your brand according to best practices.

But the real differentiator is that brand compliance is built in across both text and visual content for max consistency.

Agree

Agree is a more modern answer to DocuSign.

Upload an agreement, and AI will automatically identify and name your variables. Then, send and sign—for free.

Plus, it comes with a secure e-signature experience, collaborative contract editing, integrated invoicing, and payment processing.

Sincerely Karen

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Well, it was probably inevitable that someone made a Karen AI.

You can vent to Karen about a faulty product or terrible service, give it the offending company name, and upload a picture for it to analyze or simply list a few grievances, and it’ll start fuming.

Sincerely Karen generates a well-written complaint, which you can send off right away or simply use as a cathartic exercise. There’s even a classy mode to moderate tone.

(Sorry to our 87 subscribers named Karen.)

Google Sheets: Third-Party Smart Chips

Google Sheets now supports third-party smart chips. This means you can pull rich data from your apps—like Asana, Jira & Confluence, Canva, Lucid, Loom, Whimsical, and Zoho Projects—right into Sheets.

Just install the relevant add-on from the Google Workspace Marketplace and paste a link from the third-party source into your spreadsheet. Then, press “tab” to see the smart chip populate. Neato.

Brevo

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The email marketing platform and CRM suite formerly known as Sendinblue enables you to manage customer relationships via email, SMS, and chat — all in one place.

More affordable than HubSpot, Brevo’s Marketing, Sales, Customer Data, and Conversations Platforms help you increase conversions with multichannel campaigns, manage your pipeline, improve customer service, unify data, and individualize your comms.

Streamin

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Wait, why did it take this long for someone to make a search engine specifically for “which streaming platform has [When Harry Met Sally] this fall” and similar burning universal queries?

Anyway, it’s here, it’s Streamin, and it gives you great metadata along with the option to set an alert for something currently unavailable. Word is they’re going to add location availability for VPN users, too.

(Watching movies is obviously very important for market research purposes.)