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Microsoft Lists

Microsoft’s new Lists app is a smart info tracking app for all of your personal and collaborative lists. With rules, reminders, comments, customizable views, and ready-made templates, you can organize whatever you’re working on or toward. And the UX is nice and tidy, like your tasks.

Yup

If you happen to be looking for a decentralized, all-in-one social feed that combines streams and native engagement for Bluesky, Twitter, Lens, Farcaster, and Threads, and more, then Yup might be for you. It aggregates your notifications and cross-posts wherever you like, so you can build a more customized, human-centric stream.

CreatorMind

Use CreatorMind to train a chatbot on your blog content in seconds without a single line of code. It’s a cool and engaging reference tool for readers and creators alike, as it quickly synthesizes information from multiple articles to answer questions. Plus, it provides the source links for further reading.

Minimal LinkedIn

Love ya, LinkedIn, but the UI is getting a little cluttered.

If you feel the same, you can install the Minimal LinkedIn extension to clean up your feed and remove ads, for free. So you can get back to clapping at everyone’s “I’m thrilled to announce…” posts.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse is Google’s free website analysis tool, which you can use to evaluate your site’s performance, SEO, accessibility, and adherence to best practices, yielding a score from 0 to 100 for each audit in under a minute. You can access Lighthouse it from straight from Chrome DevTools or via PageSpeed Insights.

Intently

Intently makes it easy to locate ready-to-buy prospects on LinkedIn who have the exact needs your product can solve. Just enter your query (maybe “employees of [brand] looking for [service]) and get an intent-driven feed of leads ranked by their buying potential. AI speeds up this burdensome manual process, so you’re freed up to do the fun part, which is closing deals.

Blacklight

Curious about the user-tracking technologies a website may be using to get your data? Enter the address of any website into Blacklight and get real-time privacy report and insights on what’s installed, including ad trackers, third-party cookies, screen recording services, keystroke capture technology, and more.

BrowserFrame

ATTN: All you late-night deck builders. Need to wrap a screenshot in a browser frame? Here’s Browser Frame. Just upload your image, select the browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.) and operating system of your choice, and download. You also have the option to tweak values like padding, shadows, colors, and screen dimensions and scale.

Snapchat Agency Adventure

Snapchat’s new 16-bit interactive mini game is intended to help agency folks learn about the Snapchat ad campaign building process. You choose a character and an industry brief, and then you navigate around an agency office to interact with various characters and mini-games along the way. You even get a custom downloadable to guide your planning.