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Your Brain on AI 🍳

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SonarLint

Up your coding game and discover issues early with SonarLint, a free IDE plugin that helps you find & fix bugs and security issues in real-time. SonarLint’s 4,800+ rules span all attributes of code—reliability, maintainability, readability, security, quality, and more. Plus, with SonarLint’s in-context guidance, you’ll uncover best practices along the way.

Pexels

Pexels lets you easily create products and designs with completely free, high-quality stock photos. Pexels media is handpicked and tagged by users or sourced from free image websites. The best part is that you don’t need to create an account to get started.

CanIRank

CanIRank is the first SEO software using artificial intelligence, rather than just data, to make specific action recommendations. Work from detailed instructions or delegate the work to an SEO consultant. Understand why pages rank well, learn how to make the biggest impact in the shortest time, and be the first to know about new opportunities and recommendations.

Social News Desk

Are you in the industry that never sleeps? Turn your news content into conversions with Social News Desk’s hybrid automation and proprietary technology. Grow your audience with AI-powered ads, and take advantage of tools to enhance team workflow and content production.

InLinks

An “entity,” as defined by Google, is “a thing or concept that is singular, unique, well-defined, and distinguishable.” (More on entities later this week. 😉).

InLinks is an award-winning, entity-based Semantic SEO tool. With a built-in knowledge graph, InLinks reads your content, assesses the main entities you use, and communicates these entities in a way Google understands with one line of code. Plus, InLinks provides automated internal linking, enhanced keyword research, and content briefs to sharpen your strategy.

Descript

Need a powerful, multitrack production and video editing tool that’s simple enough for your intern to use? Descript lets you edit by script and scene, transform recordings into studio-quality audio, and instantly purge voiceovers of “um” and “uh.” Descript’s AI can even clone your voice so you can add words in post. With a full gallery of video templates, premium stock media, and tons of features to play with, you can start executing your video strategy ASAP.

WFH Tools to Pin 📌

Whether you’ve been working from home since 2020 or you just scored your first remote gig, January is the perfect time to make your workflow smarter. Here’s some must-try digital tools for WFH in 2023:

Project Mgmt

ClickUp
Asana
Monday.com

Marketing

Fellow
Evernote
Calendly

Collab

Google Meet
Slack
Google Docs
Trello

Time-Tracking

Toggl
Time Doctor
Hubstaff

Head over to Fellow to drill down into the details.

Stonly

Interactive CX > everything. Stonly meets your customer’s unique needs with engaging step-by-step guides, customized with relevant and personalized media. With beautiful design, no-code implementation, a myriad of integrations, and a unified platform for every customer experience touchpoint, Stonly will help you stand out.

Leadpages

Looking to deploy landing-page-based marketing campaigns? Create and run unlimited A/B tests with Leadpages, a no-code website and landing page builder. Everything you need—from real-time optimization tips, analytics, exit-intent pop-ups, and alert bars—is included in one subscription. You’ll simply select an existing page as your control, create a new variation of the page, specify the percentage of traffic each page will receive, and then launch the test.