By skyforbes For work and productivity, plus code assistance and technical problem-solving, I’m mostly using ChatGPT+, Perplexity for fast research and source-gathering, and Notion AI for organizing notes and documentation.
For creative and personal projects the stack looks different.
Midjourney for visual concept art and character design when I’m worldbuilding, and Claude for longer-form writing and editing since it handles context better. For building out characters and interactive story ideas, I’ve been using Dippy its long-term memory makes it much easier to maintain narrative consistency compared to most tools I’ve tried.
Tools I thought I’d use but don’t: Jasper (overpriced for what it does), a couple of the more restricted chat-based creative tools (the filters got too heavy), and most of the generic writing assistants that all feel the same after a while.
Biggest surprise was how much I ended up using AI for creative exploration instead of just productivity. The tools that let you actually develop ideas and characters freely are way more valuable to me than yet another bland “writing assistant.”
What’s in your stack? Curious what other people are actually finding useful vs what gets opened once and then forgotten.