The Directory of Tools I’ve Tested or Routinely Use

This is a growing list of tools that I’ve tested in one of the experiments or otherwise use for routine tasks.

None of the links here are affiliate or somehow incentivized. I believe that anyone aiming to do a thorough and objective review should not be influenced by payment of some sort.

The list (sorted alphabetically):

• Descript – an easy to use video editor with automatic transcription, voice dubbing, and other nice features. Has its quirks, but well worth a try if you want to cut down on editing time.
  Used in: Experiment 1 - How To Use AI To Stop Sounding Like a Robot in Your Writing

• Draftable – a tool that does side by side document comparison. Needed in Experiment 1 and appreciated the fact you don’t event need to sign up to use it.
  Used in: Experiment 1

• Midjourney – AI image generator that works through Discord (mainly).

• OBS – an open source screen recording tool. Can likely do much more, but I haven’t dug deep enough.

• Pro Writing Aid – text editing and correction tool. Similar to Grammarly, just better insights and has a usable free version.
  Used in: Experiment 1

• Ycode – a website builder I used for this site. Technical enough to allow changing most things, yet dumbed down enough to allow a non-coder build something that looks decent.

Of course, I’m also using stuff Google Docs, Figma, ChatGPT, and other well-known software, but it’s not like you came here to read that.