Any small single-purpose AI tools that improved your life recently?

Question

Recently found myself wishing for a tool that keeps a project readme up to date with the cumulative changes of a project (architecture, run commands, expectations of environment, etc). and realized i'd use it if it existed but dont really have the time to build it myself.Also have built little chrome extensions for myself on an ad hoc basis (it's in my post history, but not including a link bc the point is not to promote my stuff, i genuinely want to find new tools to improve my life).i love little tools that aren't constantly trying to grow to be bigger than they should be. any AI tools like that to improve life?Bonus if open source/source available/self hostable. I also currently run Alfred; is Raycast the new meta for tiny tools?

aristofun · Accepted Answer

Nope.I couldn't even find an acceptable text to image youtube thumbnail generator.The only real use-case I see so far in my experience is a chatgpt used as time saver instead of google to explain a new exception or comment complex regexp, or cobble up simple bash script.

runjake · Answer

I was an Alfred user until this year. I finally made the jump to Raycast.The comparative ease of writing &ldquo;tiny tools&rdquo; for Raycast in a scripting language takes far less time than Alfred workflows. That and Raycast&rsquo;s custom AI commands. So great.

palashkulsh · Answer

I use dictation in Google doc to write official docs. It's time saving and I'm pretty sure it's powered and improved by ai

leandot · Answer

I occasionally use Perplexity on iOS to avoid googling. You get a reference list where the data came from, which is nice.

Any small single-purpose AI tools that improved your life recently?

Nope.
I couldn't even find an acceptable text to image youtube thumbnail generator.
The only real use-case I see so far in my experience is a chatgpt used as time saver instead of google to explain a new exception or comment complex regexp, or cobble up simple bash script.

I was an Alfred user until this year. I finally made the jump to Raycast.
The comparative ease of writing “tiny tools” for Raycast in a scripting language takes far less time than Alfred workflows. That and Raycast’s custom AI commands. So great.

I use dictation in Google doc to write official docs. It's time saving and I'm pretty sure it's powered and improved by ai

I occasionally use Perplexity on iOS to avoid googling. You get a reference list where the data came from, which is nice.