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Top 5 AI tools for work, part 3, voice note tools. Your second brain tools that can be your second brain. No. 5 TalkNotes, 100 plus output templates. You talk and pick a format, email draft, task list, blog outline, and it structures everything for you. Your audio gets deleted after transcription. It's 19 bucks a month and has a 7-day trial. No. 3 VoicePal, built by Ali Abdal's team. And here's what's different. You record a rough idea and the AI asks you follow-up questions to go deeper. Then it writes you a first draft, blog post, thread, newsletter. It's around 10 bucks a month and doesn't have a free tier. It's best if you create content and think out loud. No. 4 Audionotes. It takes text, images, even forward a WhatsApp voice message and get a clean summary back. It also connects to Notion and Zapier. No. 2 AudioPen. This one doesn't just transcribe. It rewrites. You ramble for three minutes with all the filler and tangents. AudioPen returns it in a clean and polished text. It's like talking to an editor. And No. 1 Voicenotes. This is the one that sticks. Record thoughts every day, ideas, observations, random insights that week later you can ask it, what did I say about this project? And it searches across everything you've recorded. It's about 10 bucks a month. Works on your iPhone, web, Apple Watch. There's also a free tier, but it caps you at one minute per recording. Follow me to make your life easier with AI tech and life hacks.