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Hari Haran
Hari Haran

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3 Free AI Tools I Use to Save Hours Every Week

I used to waste so much time organizing my work and doing repetitive tasks. Lately, I started using free AI tools to do the heavy lifting for me. Here are 3 I use every week:

  1. ChatGPT (For Brain Dumping)
    I used to keep 50 browser tabs open because I was afraid of losing my research. Now, I just paste all my messy notes and links into ChatGPT and say: "Organize this into a checklist." It takes 5 seconds, and I can close all my tabs without losing the information.

  2. Perplexity AI (For Research)
    Instead of opening 20 Google tabs to find an answer, I use Perplexity. It searches the web and gives me one clean answer with sources. It completely stopped me from opening a million tabs when I'm trying to learn something new.

  3. Notion AI (For Summarizing)
    When I have a long article or document I need to read, I paste it into Notion and use the Notion AI to "Summarize this." It gives me the key points in 3 bullets. If I need to save it, I use a simple Chrome extension to right-click and dump the link into my Notion Inbox.

Stop working harder. Let AI do the boring stuff.

What free AI tools are you using to save time?

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