The Best New Productivity Apps I Tried This Month (And Liked)

This month on the latest productivity apps that we checked out.

There are many different types of apps that come across my plate, and a lot of the time I tend to sort of be very skeptical because many new apps and tools aren’t necessarily built in the same way they used to be.

ChatGPT has made things much easier to create wrappers, but if I see a good wrapper or I see something done well, I typically bring it together in my recommendations list.

1. Kortex

Best for Second Brain

This month I’ve put together some of the new productivity apps that turned my head. So the first app that really caught my interest was one called Kortex. Kortex is developed by a YouTuber called Dan Koe.

• He’s got millions of subscribers, but most importantly he wants to try and solve knowledge management. Now this application isn’t completely different from other applications like Mem, Capacities, and even Tana. It is sort of a balance between all of them, but there are a few differences that are worth noting.

• It has a feature called Capture which helps you to quickly associate a quick note to a certain note or notebook that you’ve created. It also has a really nice editor which has something called Components, sort of like Notion callout blocks which help you to create templates that you can reuse and fill out.

• The third thing that turned my interest was the ability to change large language models from whatever one is suitable for you. In the Premium, you get to change up to whatever you want, but inside of the Basics there’s some good ones to use.

• So Kortex did give me a lot of interest as I explored the apps this month. I did a full video below if you’re interested.

2. Recall AI

Best for Learners

Next up is Recall. Recall AI was something that people kept mentioning, but I wasn’t really that interested in checking out if I’m honest. I’d seen loads of these note-taking wrapper-type AI tools, and I wasn’t particularly interested in checking any more out. But much like Kortex, I gave it a strike when somebody mentioned it too many times in the community, and Recall actually impressed me.

• It allows you to capture things like podcasts and YouTube videos, a bit like what you would get inside of apps like Eightify, but the difference was it allows you to expand on them, turning them into quizzes, building on notes, and also creating notes from scratch too.

• One thing I liked in the background is that it auto-organises all of the notes for you, which means there’s less administration, especially when you’re doing stuff like learning and building on ideas that you’ve already got.

• So it’s really good for students or learners, or those who have knowledge management but don’t want to do all the faff with bi-directional linking and creating some relationships, because it’s sort of done for you in some capacity.

• It also has a browser experience, which I haven’t really checked out yet, but I’m sure it’s just an extension of what they’ve done, or probably even more. But one that impressed me nonetheless.

3. FlowSavvy

Best for Budget Auto-Scheduling

Finally, a few weeks ago, I checked out FlowSavvy, and I feel like there’s two types of markets in the task management space now.

• There’s the basic traditional to-do list apps, which are good, reliable, and solid. And then there’s the really expensive, powerful tools like Akiflow, Morgen, and Motion, which are also fantastic, but are much more designed for busy professionals and intense use cases.

• That’s when I checked out FlowSavvy, and I was interested in how they did it.

• FlowSavvy does a unique job of pricing itself in the middle of these types of apps, and it offers auto-scheduling, which can help you to save a lot of time in your day.

• Something that apps like Todoist and TickTick currently don’t offer. But I was mildly impressed at how it did it, and whilst the interface isn’t particularly attractive, the ability to reorganise your task management around your Google Calendar was something that impressed me. So it definitely made the cut this month.