So I have been playing around with the free versions of Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, etc. and I think I'm finally ready to invest in a paid subscription for at least one. If you could only pay for ONE AI tool, which one would it be and why?

I just added YEARS to my tired and old MacBook Pro (2012) it's a horse of a machine but...Apple doesn't support it anymore. I wasn't able to download the software I need to do my work. Even Google Drive was telling me that it was about to stop supporting it.Which meant this (yes heavy) but perfectly fine piece of metal was destined to the dump. And I can't have that. Geek that I am (and VERY conscious of the environmental/wallet impact this would have) I set out to figure out if I could do something to breath some life into.And I'm happy to report I found it. There's a way to 'jailbreak' essentially a roundabout way to upgrade it. And I'm now writing this on my brand 'new' Sonoma (soon to be upgraded to Sequoia) computer. Never underestimate the power of a geek.T his is for you if you have a Mac 2008+ watch this video, it's not difficult to do. And don't thank me, you can buy me a coffee with the $ I will save you having to buy a new computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8djeFJ1czU&t=322s

Apologies if I am late to the party, but I have just discovered it and am so impressed with the output and see that it is only going to go from strength to strength as it adds more source types. You upload your own sources from Google Docs & Slides (of course), PDF or text, and website links, and you can use the power of AI (Gemini) to summarise them, make connections between documents, and answer all your questions about them. It's like your personalised AI working with the information that you feed it. Each response is given a citation to show you where it pulled the info from. I've been uploading product manuals, specification documents and brochures to summarise and create blog posts, FAQs and lead capture magnets based on this information. You can ask specific questions to flesh out specific details. Brilliant at finding that one thing you saved but couldn't find. I uploaded some of my email and responses and asked it to generate email templates based on this information and when to send them. I've created templates for ongoing use from past documents that I have used. I uploaded a huge Australian Standards document and it was so helpful with an overview of the doc, summarising the main points, suggesting topics to discuss, answering questions that I had, finding where specific information was in the document. Time Saver. Brainstorming. Idea generation. Pitch preparation. Decision making. Research. Anyone else tried it? What have you found it is useful for? https://notebooklm.google/

Just saw it in a comment and shared this but as to avoid it getting lost so I thought I would reshare. Here’s another AI tools list resources https://www.futuretools.io/

@Lauren deVane - just a quick one, I was trying to set up the Save to Notion Extension, and when I authenticate everything and select the page to sync the good stuff in and click "Save to Notion" on ChatGPT, it makes me set everything up again and again? I don't know what is not working but it keeps making me do the same thing and not save anything.