welcome to the first ever tools of the month this is the tool finder Edition and today we're going
to dive into lots of new tools lots of tools that have been added to tool finder and hopefully find
the productivity tool that might interest you for fixing a a basic solution or maybe a more complex
solution I'm very excited I'm Francesco by the way if you're in the hunt for a productivity tool
jump over the tool finder you'll find them all including the ones in this video today today's
feature is actually sponsored by pipedrive now if you're looking for a sales CRM tool that is
perfect for sales people then this is a really super option over a hundred thousand teams and
clients use it and we actually use it in the past when I was working at a former company we actually
use it to manage book publishers and whether we could get them and track them through the sales
process and it's really powerful there's lots of powerful functions in terms of tweaking the
pipeline for managing a sale and also it's got some really awesome Integrations for capturing
every moment that happens with the sale and it's really interesting in terms of how it's set up
and really really powerful so you can find that linked below if you fancy checking out pipedrive
or you and your team need that so let's dive into some of the options and the first one is an app
called heptabase and really interesting heptabases an app that has come onto my radar multiple times
and it's been on my radar for some time because of its really expansive note-taking abilities
in terms of the graph in terms of a very visual view because I believe that that's the future of
productivity applications very Strangely I feel like the interfaces will dramatically change in
terms of complexity and focus much more on visual Natures because our voice will be the
command that's my opinion but as you can imagine hepto base is very much designed for that and
it's a really interesting experience I'm in the process of doing a review on it at the moment but
as an application it's a very visual note-taking experience and it's sort of like Miro combined
with Evernote note if you had if they had a baby but a very interesting application we've recently
added to tool finder next up is one called threads and we're actually trialling threads at keep
productive it is a really interesting application because what threads does slightly differently is
focus your conversation on threads you know like slack it's a really incoming messages everywhere
and for teams that can be quite overwhelming of course you can start threads on slack but this is
a thread first thinking so you can create thread when you and your team are actually like wanting
to get something solved or there's a problem and actually then start the conversation around the
thread which is much more productive in my opinion we actually use another Optical twist but we're
trialing threads just to see what it's like and there's some really interesting features like
block level management which means you can reply to comments that are in blocks inside of threads
which means you can actually get deeper levels of conversation and there's some great abilities
with voice channels as well which is similar to slack huddles as well and we're really digging a
little bit deeper in our review which is coming out later but a very interesting application
and definitely one that's on our radar for 2024. next up is an AI one it's called pdfai and we did
a recent review on it but basically imagine PDF AI you can chat with your PDFs and that
sounds weird doesn't it but basically imagine if you're in school or you are doing a report at work
um or maybe even you've got legal questions or a document in front of you then what you
can basically do is upload the PDF and from there you can ask it questions using chat GPT
whichever knows already but it really gives you that level of depth and you can dig a little bit
deeper into what's actually part of the content and contextualize it to what's already out there
so you can really try and humanize the document by asking simple questions like what does this
mean uh in in layman's terms I actually did that a couple months ago with just copy and paste and
chat GPT but this really is an interesting app for just bypassing that so an interesting one a
very micro in terms of what the offerings is in the market but a little bonus application that
focuses on AI next up is chosen by Charlotte who is our mindful tools expert she picked and
I will definitely get her on to dive into the tools of the month next month for sure but she
picked headspace as her tool of choice and it's a meditation application and she has been using
it daily because she finds experience really interesting in terms of being able to set a
routine for her with meditating and having that daily routine and exercise if you're interested in
following Charlotte on YouTube you can Jive over to her own channel which she will be diving into
productivity tools that are focused on mindfulness and you can find all of their more recent mindful
tools that she's added over on tool finder and finally one that I did a really deep dive on which
was called an app called paymo now this is really designed for like Freelancers or small teams maybe
even medium-sized teams as well looking to associate their projects based on income for
example if you build your time or you you set a retainer as a marketing agency or as a freelancer
and you track your time Associated at billing this basically does all stages of the progress so you
can manually manage a task that is associated to the invoice there's Associated to the client
which is really interesting so it's sort of like a project management software designed more for
those who bill with their time or those who Bill and want to have that whole experience in one the
invoices are really cool in it but largely it's a very nice time tracking experience and I guess you
could use it as a small team or maybe even just one person but it really does have to be based
around billing which is different but again we've done a really in-depth review on tool finder on it
and I found it to be actually pretty impressive great project management abilities great ways to
weave in invoices and actually found it to be one of the larger experiences that in I it was
sort of like finding a little bit of a tardis I went and I was expecting like a small uh box and
I opened up and there was like loads of stuff in there so again a bit of a tardis experience those
who don't know what tardis is just Google it um I'm sure you'll find it anyway folks I hope you
enjoyed tools of the month thank you very much to pipedrive for sponsoring today's segment you can
find pipedrive below and if you're in a hunt for any productivity tools you can jump over to till
finder and find everything there and we'll make sure to link that up in the description alright
folks I'll see you soon and here's some more videos that you might be interested in cheerio
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