Based on this morning’s edition of The Installer from David Pierce at the Verge mentioning Notion, Craft, and Obsidian, I think the next big AI productivity tool is an AI productivity tool to help you choose a productivity tool! 😂

It’s cool that Microsoft is using a variety of models (I really like Anthropic’s models these days) but I’m a little surprised this deal doesn’t include hosting their models on Azure, too.

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New AI-powered summarize mobile app from Kagi available on iOS and Android.

One thing I love about this is it works with YouTube videos - just share the YouTube page to the app and it pulls the transcript and gives you a nice summary so you can decide if you want to watch.

Automating School News Updates with ActivePieces and AI: https://matt.fus.net/2025/09/01/automating-school-news-updates-with.html

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standard developed by Anthropic (makers of the Claude AI chatbot/model) that allows LLMs to interact with tools so that AI services can do things in addition to talking about things. It is still e... https://matt.fus.net/2025/06/22/model-context-protocol-mcp-is.html

If we take sponsorships, ads, and other junk out, what would a modern search engine look like? What features could be developed if users are the customers, and not the sponsors? A startup called Kagi is working on this with features... https://matt.fus.net/2025/01/03/if-we-take-sponsorships-ads.html

Neat little app for sharing travel plans and such with “IRL” friends. I like the distinction here between social media and social networking

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I have wondered why Apple hasn’t done this yet, given how long it has taken individual states to sign on to using digital IDs. Adding your passport to get through TSA and other ID checks can be done once and works for everyone.

www.theverge.com/2024/12/6…

The cool ElevenReader app now has a feature to upload a PDF or submit a URL, and it will generate a podcast episode about it. I think Google NotebookLLM was the first to do this, but nice to have the feature in a standalone app.

I recently discovered Listen Later. It is similar to a read-it-later app like Instapaper or Goodlinks, but in this case, it uses text-to-speech to read the articles to you. You email it an article or a URL and it shows up in a private pod... https://matt.fus.net/2024/11/25/i-recently-discovered.html

Back in the days of the PalmPilot, there were a few makers of little keyboards that folded up for easy use while traveling. This cool keyboard from ProtoArc is a modern equivalent and even has a trackpad. It supports 3 different Bluetooth devices a... https://matt.fus.net/2024/11/23/back-in-the.html

Lot of cool AI apps out these days, but I’m enjoying Cleft Notes. The idea is you ramble on about whatever, it records you, transcribes the text, and then organizes it into well-written notes.