{"id":220073,"date":"2026-01-04T14:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/220073\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:42:07","slug":"ais-ready-to-be-your-personal-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/220073\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s ready to be your personal assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">AI has changed the workplace, and not just because everyone\u2019s emails have more em-dashes now. About 1-in-10 businesses told the Census Bureau that they use AI, a 4% bump from last year. That\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/ai-worker-productivity-economy-77498195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expected<\/a> to keep climbing, boosting productivity and tacking on points to the GDP over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">Still, the majority of businesses aren\u2019t using AI yet\u2014and that may boil down to people not knowing what to do with it besides ask it for therapy sessions and Ghibli-fied selfies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">So, we rounded up some of the lowest-lift ways to integrate AI into daily workflows and, ultimately, save time and effort:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortwave.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Shortwave<\/a> automates the inbox by organizing, scheduling, writing, and editing emails.<a href=\"https:\/\/willowvoice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Willow<\/a> turns audio into text, so chatty users can speak, instead of type, their emails and other messages.<a href=\"https:\/\/mindmapai.app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MindMap AI<\/a> creates brainstorming visualizations to help users externalize and organize thoughts and plans.<a href=\"https:\/\/akiflow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Akiflow<\/a> is an AI-powered personal assistant that manages users\u2019 calendars.<a href=\"https:\/\/otter.ai\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Otter<\/a> takes notes during meetings to create transcriptions and summaries.<a href=\"https:\/\/summate.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Summate<\/a> creates a curated digest of content from across the internet (which can include Morning Brew).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.com\/product\/ai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Notion<\/a> integrated AI into its work-organizing platform. (Also, check out some of the best free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notion.com\/templates\/category\/personal-productivity?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">templates<\/a>.)ChatGPT is an obvious pick\u2014this Reddit thread details how to turn the AI chatbot into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ChatGPT\/comments\/1h5y9nq\/how_i_turned_chatgpt_into_my_personal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">personal productivity coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__StyledText-sc-14098c7c-8 ceoswy\">One warning: You probably shouldn\u2019t use all of these tools at once. Find the ones that work for you, and ditch the rest. Flitting among AI applications can turn into a time-suck instead of a time-saver. One <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/05\/time-saved-by-ai-offset-by-new-work-created-study-suggests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study<\/a> found that about 8% of AI users created more work for themselves with their new tech stacks.\u2014JW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI has changed the workplace, and not just because everyone\u2019s emails have more em-dashes now. 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