Productivity tools
Tools that help with everyday work such as notes, tasks, email and scheduling. This page lists 31 productivity tools; the latest additions are DS Harness Remote, DeepTutor and Handy. Open any project to see what it lets you do, what its creator says you need and its original source.
Projects to explore
- Tinycast Open a Mac launcher that stays under 100 MB of memory
A keyboard launcher for macOS: one hotkey opens a search box that finds apps, files, clipboard history, snippets, emoji, calculator answers and window-arranging commands.
- ECC Give your coding agent a plan, test and review routine
Install a ready-made routine so your AI coding agent plans before it builds, tests its changes and reviews its own work from a fresh context.
- Claude SEO Run full website SEO audits inside Claude Code
Give it a website and get a prioritized SEO action plan, including AI search readiness.
- Hex Dictate by voice and paste text into any app
Hold a shortcut, speak, and have your words typed into whatever app you are using.
- Anthropic skills Example folders that teach Claude repeatable tasks
Add ready-made instruction folders so Claude handles tasks like PDFs, slides and brand-styled documents the same way each time.
- i-have-adhd Make your coding assistant lead with the next action
Make your AI coding assistant reply with the next action first, numbered steps and no padding.
- Unlimited-OCR Read text from page images and whole PDFs in one pass
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- diagram-design Draw branded diagrams with your agent
Describe the diagram you want in ordinary words, and your AI agent creates a file you can open in a browser.
- ego-lite Let AI agents browse in their own tabs while you keep working
Hand web chores to your AI agent and it does them in its own workspace inside your browser, while you keep using yours.
- Handy Dictate into any text field with offline speech-to-text
Handy lets you press a shortcut, speak, and see your words appear in any text field, transcribed on your own computer.
- cloudflare-os Prompt an agent to build private apps for your work
An open agent workspace that gives an AI chat access to your company’s context, then lets it create small apps — called gadgets — inside separate sandboxes.
- Marketing Skills Help your AI agent write copy and plan SEO
Give your AI coding agent ready-made marketing know-how for copywriting, SEO, ads and A/B tests.
- newsjack Turn your AI agent into a PR skills toolkit
Open-source agent skills and a small CLI that help with newsjacking, pitches, journalist fit checks, and AI-visibility writing once installed into a supported agent.
- ever-gauzy Run your company’s HR, sales and invoicing on your own server
An open business management platform that bundles the systems a small company normally buys separately: staff records and time tracking, a customer and sales pipeline, projects and tasks, invoicing and expenses, inventory, and an applicant tracking system for hiring.
- prompts.chat Find and share ready-made prompts for AI chatbots
Browse and copy community prompts that work with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others.
- big-arrow-on-the-screen Point users to Mac controls with bigarrow
Let a coding agent draw a big arrow with a sign over any Mac window to show you which button to click.
- Postiz Schedule and analyze social media posts in one place
Postiz lets you schedule social media posts, track how they perform, and work with teammates, for marketers and creators who manage several channels.
- DeepTutor Study your own documents with a personal AI tutor
Read documents with page-by-page citations, practice daily and get video lessons from an AI tutor.
- Open Notebook Chat with, search and make podcasts from research
Collect PDFs, videos and web pages, then search, chat and make podcasts from them.
- DS Harness Remote Reach your DeepSeek Harness from a phone or browser
Continue your DeepSeek Harness sessions from a phone, another computer or a browser while the work keeps running on your own machine.
- Macro Run email, chat, docs and tasks in one workspace
Handle email, team messages, docs, tasks, calls and customer contacts in one linked, searchable workspace with AI agents.
- ai-job-search Turn job postings into tailored CVs and interview preparation
AI Job Search uses Claude Code to evaluate postings, tailor CVs, write cover letters, and prepare for interviews.
- Cindy Let an AI agent finish tasks in your apps and files
Hand tasks to an AI agent that runs on your own computer and uses your files and apps; for people who want one agent across Claude Code and Codex.
- OpenMausBot Chat with a team of AI bots that use computers
Chat with a roster of AI bots that each have their own model, computer and apps, and approve risky actions.
- OpenWhispr Turn your voice into text with a hotkey
OpenWhispr lets you press a hotkey, speak, and see your words typed at your cursor, for people who dictate, take notes or transcribe meetings.
- Orkas Hand goals to a desktop team of AI agents
Give Orkas a goal and its AI agents plan, research, write and build the work on your computer.
- Alexandrie host your own offline-ready notes wiki, like a private Notion
Write, organize, search and share Markdown notes on your own server, from any device and even offline.
- OpenMAIC Turn any topic into an interactive AI classroom
Turn a topic or document into slides, quizzes and discussions led by AI teachers.
- Archify Turn plans and codebases into interactive visual guides
Turn ideas, plans or repositories into interactive visuals with this assistant skill, for people explaining systems or organizing what they want to learn.
- Unlimited-OCR Download and run the Baidu OCR model on page images and PDFs
Turn photos of documents, multi-page scans and PDFs into text you can copy and search.
- humanizer Rewrite AI-written drafts so they read like a person (12B)
Paste an AI-written email, essay or report and get a rewrite that reads more naturally, offline; for people writing in English or Chinese.
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