I'm launching a new podcast (and sharing 13 of my favourite AI tools)

Greetings!

Today is special (for me, at least), because I've just launched a new podcast into the world. Because I thought to myself, "There are just not enough podcasts out there for people."

Kidding.

I launched it because I've been hunting around for great AI podcasts that share one or two super practical tips, drop the tech jargon, and don't go into boring detail about things that I don't need to know.

I couldn't find it, so I've created it with Neo Aplin, who heads up Inventium's AI programs.

It's called How I AI, and it's dropping every Monday in the How I Work feed (just search for "How I Work" wherever you listen to podcasts to find it).

In the first episode (listen to it here), we walk through 13 AI tools we use every single day. Which sounds like a lot, but when you're using AI properly, you end up with a bit of a stack. Different tools for different jobs.

Here are four of them:

​Granola​

This is my absolute obsession. I've been using it for about a year now, multiple times a day.

Granola is a meeting notes tool, but it's different to the usual suspects because it doesn't record audio or video. It only captures the words. Which means it's completely unobtrusive: no AI bot joining your meeting before you do, no awkward "FYI, this is being recorded" moment when you're just trying to have a conversation.

It works in the background, transcribing as you go. And here's the clever bit: you can still take your own notes during the meeting, and Granola will augment them with details from the transcript. So you're noting what you think is important, and it's filling in the gaps you didn't have time to capture.

I use it for virtual meetings, obviously. But I also use it face-to-face. At Inventium, we're remote-first, so when we do get together once a month, I'll just drop my phone in the middle of the table with Granola running. Three-hour workshop? No problem. No one's stuck being the scribe, and we're not missing anything important.

​Consensus​

This is hands-down the best tool I've found for academic research. And given everything at Inventium is science-backed (and that my books are heavily researched) I'm in Consensus basically every day.

It's called Consensus because it's particularly good at yes/no questions. So if you want to know whether hybrid working actually increases productivity, or whether that supplement you read about on the socials is legit, you can ask Consensus and it'll pull together the research for you.

For The Energy Game (coming out later this year), I was easily spending an hour or more on Consensus every day, trawling for studies. Neo and I also use it for personal health stuff.

It's not just for researchers or scientists. If you care about whether something is actually true versus just sounds true, Consensus is gold.

​Letterly​

This one solved a specific problem for me: I'm terrible at journaling.

I've got a journal by my bedside table that I barely use. Neo, on the other hand, has kept a nightly journal for years. (He's very disciplined.)

But I do want to capture things, like stories about my daughter, memorable moments from the day, emotions I'm feeling that I don't want to forget. I just hate the process of actually writing it all down by hand.

Enter Letterly. It's a voice app. You hit record, do a brain dump of your thoughts, and then prompt it to rewrite what you've said. One of the options is "journal entry," which is what I use the app for.

So instead of journal writing, I do journal talking. And Letterly turns that rambling voice note into something coherent that actually captures what I meant to say. Much easier. Much less friction.

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So that's three of the thirteen. If you want the other 10, plus the workflows we use, the mistakes we've made, and the tools we've tried and abandoned, hit subscribe to How I Work. That's where How I AI will be dropping every Monday.

​First episode is live now.​