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Flyleaf

Attn: lite Luddites.

Pocket those chewy thinkpieces and long-form articles for later with Flyleaf. It’s a free app that reorganizes your saved content into book-style pagination, so you can flip through pages instead of scrolling vertically. No account needed, and no ads.

Formula Bot

Use the Formula Bot generator to convert your text into spreadsheet formulas (or vice versa), SQL queries, VBA, Google Apps Scripts, regex, and more.

Use the data analyzer to have AI generate answers, insights, charts, and tables about your data.

Plus, you can automate spreadsheet tasks and run sentiment analysis on text (like product reviews). It’s free!

Riverside

Riverside is an online virtual studio for recording and editing high-quality podcasts and videos locally.

The tool helps you quickly produce video interviews, talking head videos, webinars, marketing pieces, panel discussions and more.

Plus, AI-powered transcriptions and handy post-production tools—like test-based editing and automated short-form clips—are well suited to the content creator wearing 11 hats.

Retro

Feeling like social media is less social than ever? Retro is a friends-only photo journal… so Instagram, when Instagram was still cool. The “Journals” feature is a collaborative album-making system that lets you build a retrospective of your favorite moments each week.

OpusClip Captions

Captions on short-form video content don’t just satisfy basic accessibility considerations. They give antsy users visual input to focus on while they process your audio information.

While native caption features are tedious to work with, you can quickly add flashy captions to your content with OpusClip Captions. Just upload a < 200 MB video with at least 30 spoken words and select your preferred style.

Potion

Email templates are hard.

Try Potion for building out no-code (and no clunky drag-and-drop) email templates with all the familiar, intuitive UX of Notion and the flexibility of Figma. No monthly subscriptions, either.

Spellbook

Spellbook is a GPT-4 tool trained on billions of lines of legal text in order to take the tedium out of your contract writing process.

It reviews your copy in Microsoft Word and advises revisions to refine your contract. And don’t worry—it’s trusted by 2,000+ legal professionals. Worth a free trial.

VideoGist

Here’s the gist:

Enter any YouTube video link, and get a summary of the video. Do with it what you will.

Ridiculous Design

In honor of April Fools Day, spend some time on Ridiculous Design, a website dedicated to refreshingly absurd ideas.

What if you could filter out Instagram content based on your preferred level of FOMO for the day? What if apps told you how long you’ve been scrolling… in miles?

Some of these concepts seem impractical at first glance, but they’re backed by data on user behavior. It’s a disruption to the proliferation of predictable design, and we love it.