About this podcast
Wonder Tools helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Building on one of Substack's most popular productivity newsletters, each episode of the podcast includes specific tips on how to make the most of these new tools to work creatively and productively.
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Episodes
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- AI Prompts I Keep Coming Back To · 14 minWhen it comes to prompts, you don’t need hundreds. A handful of simple ones can help you brainstorm, understand complex ideas, make plans, and improve your writing. The eight…
- How I’m Using AI Agents 👁️🗨️ · 17 minI’ve never had a secretary before. Or a chief of staff. With these AI agents, I suddenly feel like I have both. This week, among other things, they: * Researched and booked…
- 5 Writing Tools to Get Unstuck ✍️ · 7 minThe hardest part of writing is the first 10 minutes. Get past that, and momentum kicks in. Once you start scribbling a few sentences, you’re on your way. Having gotten stuck and…
- The Newsletters I Read First · 10 minI subscribe to hundreds of newsletters. Most weeks I read only a fraction. These are the dozen free ones I turn to first, all written by humans, plus five bonus picks from two…
- 🔕 Too Distracted? Try These Tools · 12 minNow that fall is here, my focus has been fragile. Noise, notifications, news, and email grab at my attention. To help cope with distractions, I've stitched together a focus…
- 🧠 How to Improve Your AI Skills · 7 minToday I’m sharing a guest post on how to strengthen your AI skills. It’s by Frank Andrade, an AI instructor who has helped thousands of people on Substack master ChatGPT and…
- My 20 Favorite Google Docs Features ❤️ · 12 minGoogle Docs turned 20 this year, so I’m sharing 20 of my favorite GDocs features you might find useful. What are your favorites?✨ 1. Type with my voice 🎙️ Tools > Voice typing…
- Your AI Teaching Toolkit 🍎 · 17 minI’m excited to be starting a new semester this week, like millions of other teachers. As a resource for my fellow educators, I’m updating a piece I wrote for The 74, the…
- 🤔 Odd Tools That Are Actually Useful · 1 h 2 minI’ve always admired the way bestselling author A.J. Jacobs turns his life into a laboratory for testing quirky ideas. He’s written books about following every biblical law for a…
- Connect Your Tools to AI 🔗 · 9 minI’ve changed how I use Claude and ChatGPT lately. They’ve become my digital dashboards, linked to many of the tools I rely on. I can ask Claude to add to my calendar, query my…
- 📍 Pinpoint, Explained · 8 minGoogle’s Pinpoint is now open to everyone. It’s a surprisingly powerful free tool for making sense of giant piles of digital stuff. (Before June 3, it was restricted to…
- 🛑 Skip the Upgrade · 1 h 2 minI love new gadgets and gizmos, and I’m constantly trying new sites and apps. So I was intrigued by the title of Eric Athas’s upcoming book, Saying No to New. Eric’s an editor at…
- What I Learned About Time 🕰️ · 1 h 4 minI love Laura Vanderkam’s books about how to make the most of time. It’s never about stuffing more into our days. It’s not about productivity. It’s about savoring and being…
- ✍️ Let AI Interview You · 1 h 11 minThe following is a guest post by Jay Dixit, founder of Socratic AI Most people treat AI like a question-answering machine: Ask a question, get an answer. What is chili crisp, and…
- My Quieter Toolkit 🌙 · 7 minMornings are for deep work. Afternoons are for everything else — teaching, planning, thinking, movement, and meetings. This is part two of my daily kit. Part one covered my…
- Meet Granola AI ✨ · 14 minI’ve tried a dozen AI note-taking tools. Granola is the one I use daily and recommend most. Read on for 10 ways to make the most of it. Bottom line: Granola transcribes and…
- AI, Art, and Drawing the Line 🖌️ · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 1This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit wondertools.substack.com I recently talked with Jason Chatfield a New Yorker cartoonist and creator of the lively…
- ☀️ My Morning Toolkit · 3 minAfter my 7am wake-up alarm, I lean on about 20 morning apps, sites and gadgets for reading, writing, listening, and getting stuff done. I revisit this toolkit every year. Here's…
- Teach Smarter with AI · 1 h 4 minI recently talked with Lance Eaton, Senior Associate Director of AI and Teaching & Learning at Northeastern University and writer of AI + Education = Simplified. We traded ideas…
- 📚 Find Fantastic Books · 7 minEscape AI slop by reading more books. 📚 That’s my plan for making the most of leisure time this year. One book a week. Some short. Others mostly visual — I love graphic novels…
