Zapier: Automate AI Workflows, Agents, and Apps

Consuming video is easy. Producing good video is not. Putting together a script, getting all the footage, and editing everything to perfection—or as close as possible—can eat up enormous chunks of your time. As it does for everything right now, AI has a few solutions to slash the time it takes to go from idea to MP4. I went in search of the best AI tools for creating videos, and as it turns out, there are already a ton of amazing options. From smart video editing software to generative text-to-v

At any given moment, I have a different writing app open for every task I'm actively procrastinating on: my Notes app for collaborating with my partner on a never-ending list of to-dos, Notion for trip planning, Google Docs for the article I'm supposed to be writing right now, and a rotating cast of other free writing tools I've convinced myself are essential to the process. This is to say nothing about the AI writing generators I use to help me create content or edit at scale—that's a differe

I have two voices in my head when it comes to new tech. One is the wide-eyed optimist who wants to try every tool and click every AI button. The other wants to delete every app on my phone, move to a cabin in the woods, and write by candlelight. There's no doubt AI is exciting. It's already helping teams save time, be more creative, and get through the workday with fewer repetitive headaches. But it's also introducing new challenges: messy rollouts, tool overload, unclear guidelines, and real qu

As a writer covering technology and AI, I spend plenty of time separating useful information from the hype. A good AI newsletter can help cut through that noise. But the best newsletter depends on what you need. Someone making AI strategy decisions needs different coverage than someone looking for an AI workflow they can try this afternoon. To find the best AI newsletters, I started by researching my options and looking at what other folks were recommending. Then I signed up for anything that lo

Anyone can share knowledge as quickly and easily as you can upload a video to YouTube. But to explore a topic in depth, build a community, earn an income, or grow your business by selling online courses? That takes a more robust setup to help you design course pages, build out a curriculum, and promote your course. I've been updating this article for several years, and this year, after researching and nearly 80 apps for creating and selling online courses—and testing all the top contenders—these