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Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

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Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#61
Tabs open right now: Chatgpt, claude, and grok.

Local LLM: deepseek r1 and qwen2.5coder; phi4 for my project.

Pycharm pro as my main IDE. I I have been giving Void IDE a try this week but it's just frustrating me more than anything.

Has to be a bug where when i approve it to edit the file and it reads maybe 5 lines, stops, still says its running but isnt doing anything. then the chat keeps going like an error happened; but then it really errors out. I'm not ruling out that im just screwing it up somewhere.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#63
Current workflow that might stick:

I’m using SuperWhisper for voice dictation and casually chatting with Claude Code, which I just start in the Obsidian vault directory.

I’m currently onboarding into a new project and need to gather and structure information quickly. So I just jot down whatever comes to mind — in natural language, no structure.

Claude takes care of organizing it: generating #tags, creating [[links]], and making things retrievable later.

After a couple of weeks, I can ask things like:

• What did I do yesterday?

• Who is “John Doe”?

• Which project uses Java version 21?

• …

Happy to share more if anyone’s curious.

(English reviewed with a bit of help from ChatGPT — non-native speaker here.)

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Explain the difference between Turkish yoghurt dishes haydari and cacik wow something that you can find literally in the second sentence of the wikipedia article for haydari.

And the other, vastly more complex, stuff? Btw, it's the third sentence.

Haydari is a type of yogurt dish similar to a thick cacık, made from certain herbs and spices, combined with garlic and yogurt.[1] It differs from cacık in that the recipe contains no cucumber and calls for strained yogurt or labne.[2]

it is in the second sentence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haydari

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#65

Current workflow that might stick: I’m using SuperWhisper for voice dictation and casually chatting with Claude Code, which I just start in the Obsidian vault directory. I’m currently onboarding into a new project and need to gather and structure information quickly. So I just jot down whatever comes to mind — in natural language, no structure. Claude takes care of organizing it: generating #tags, creating [[links]],…

please do!

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#68

Current workflow that might stick: I’m using SuperWhisper for voice dictation and casually chatting with Claude Code, which I just start in the Obsidian vault directory. I’m currently onboarding into a new project and need to gather and structure information quickly. So I just jot down whatever comes to mind — in natural language, no structure. Claude takes care of organizing it: generating #tags, creating [[links]],…

I'm experimenting with a somewhat similar workflow.

I have a Boox tablet I use to take handwritten notes on any relevant topics during the day. And with that I create the following workflow: 1. transform handwritten notes into a markdown document using chatgpt 2. with this document I ask chatgpt to create a summary of yesterdays activities and a list of unfinished things I still need to work on today.

This approach isn't perfect but is surprisingly useful.

Re: Ask HN: What useful AI tools do you use every day?

#70
Kagi Translate.

Kagi Summarizer (via bookmarklet) to help weed out articles that won't be worth reading (even here on HN) or to get the one sentence that matters.

Kagi Assistant. This I use for random things, like pasting a webpage's source and having it figure out what to fill in on this form to make an RSS feed where none exists.[1] (This, in my current push to move most of my needed information updates both out of email and into RSS, as well as to reverse what I call "the arrow of information" [I want to batch-check information updates on a schedule instead of getting interrupted by incoming data piecemeal].)

Kagi Assistant (and the various LLM models) are also great when I realize that I don't understand a particular grammar or usage point in a foreign language that I'm learning: the models usually create clear explanations and then a few practice exercises for me to do.

[1]: https://feedmaker.fly.dev/

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