I run a small online store selling digital products. Nothing fancy — about $2,000/month in revenue, mostly PDF templates and Notion dashboards. For the past six months, I’ve been watching e-commerce AI tools get better at an alarming rate. So I decided to test three of them — Shopify Magic, Amazon’s seller AI tools, and … Read more

I’ve been freelancing for three years. In that time, I’ve tried roughly 40 AI tools – some brilliant, most forgettable, a few that made my work worse. This isn’t another listicle where I read product pages and pretended to test things. Every tool here earned its spot through actual freelance work: client projects, admin tasks, … Read more

I receive roughly 80 emails a day. Not newsletters (those go to a separate address). Real emails – clients, teammates, vendors, prospects. Before this experiment, I was spending 2-3 hours a day just on email. That’s 15 hours a week. That’s almost a part-time job. That’s unacceptable. So I committed to a 30-day test of … Read more

I have 847 notes scattered across my devices. Some are in Apple Notes, some in a physical notebook I bought during a productivity phase, and many are in a folder called “Misc” that I’m afraid to open. If my brain had a file system, it would look like a teenager’s desktop – everything saved to … Read more

I processed over 100 PDFs this month. Legal contracts, research papers, invoices, eBooks, you name it. If my computer had a “Downloads” folder graveyard, it would be full of PDFs I opened once, skimmed for 30 seconds, and never touched again. So I decided to put three AI PDF tools through a real-world stress test. … Read more

I have a love-hate relationship with social media marketing. I love the results when it works. I hate the grind of creating content every single day — writing captions, designing graphics, scheduling posts, responding to comments. It’s a part-time job disguised as “just posting on Instagram.” So I tested three AI social media tools for … Read more

I paid a designer $800 for my first startup’s logo. It took three weeks, six rounds of revisions, and I still wasn’t happy with the result. The designer was talented — I was just a terrible client who couldn’t articulate what I wanted. Five years later, AI logo generators promise the same result in 5 … Read more

I’ve built maybe 40 websites in my life. WordPress, Webflow, custom-coded, you name it. So when AI website builders started promising “a complete website in 30 seconds from a single prompt,” I was skeptical. I’ve seen too many “revolutionary” tools produce garbage that takes longer to fix than building from scratch. But I was curious. … Read more

I averaged 23 meetings per week last quarter. That’s roughly 18 hours of conversations, decisions, and action items — most of which I’d forget within 48 hours if I didn’t write them down. The problem is, taking notes during a meeting makes you a worse participant. You’re typing instead of thinking, summarizing instead of engaging. … Read more

I have a confession: I used to spend 40 hours building a single pitch deck. Not because I’m a perfectionist — because I’m bad at design. I’d stare at blank slides, fiddle with font sizes for 20 minutes, and end up with something that looked like a PowerPoint from 2008. Then AI presentation tools happened. … Read more