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Good morning! This is Brenda, back with another edition of Insanely Cool Tools, covering an insanely interesting mix of tools, curated with founders, tech enthusiasts, and amusement in mind.

Sorry about the mix up last week! No newsletter was actually supposed to go out as I was away, but it seemed I accidentally scheduled one of my previous templates. Thank you to everyone for the notes you sent and for sticking around for the real newsletters this week!

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— Brenda (@cooltoolsnews)

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Tools for all the important things in life like meetings and music and notes and tic tac toe

Shortform — Maximize your time: master books in hours! Are there more books you want to read than you have time for? With Shortform, you can efficiently learn key insights from the best nonfiction books, like Deep Work by Cal Newport. Their guides provide in-depth summaries, actionable insights, and exercises to help you apply new information. Get 20% off! [ sponsored ]

Just Build Things — An online toolbox (you guys love these) with dozens of simple to use and fun tools. Bookmark this one site and save yourself 30 other bookmarks. It has all the important things in life like a guitar tuner and a bill splitter and tic tac toe.

Agenda Hero — Turn text, images, and PDFs into calendar events. With this Magic AI tool, you can turn text, images, and PDFs into calendar events and add them to Google, Microsoft, Apple, and other calendars.

Classify Anything — Turn chaos into clarity in seconds. Classify anything you can imagine based on your own instructions. Just drop your files in (text or images) and let AI do the work for you. You can decide the categories and how to determine the rules.

Magic Notepad — If Apple Notes and ChatGPT had a baby. Jot down what matters to you during meetings or discussions, and the AI takes it from there, organizing your raw notes into structured insights, beautiful formatting, and next steps.

Pricing Maker — Find the right price for your products. Let AI analyze market dynamics to suggest optimal prices for your physical or digital product, boosting your margins and competitiveness.

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