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Which AI tool should I use?
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Research and fact-finding
Recommended: Perplexity (free tier)
Office tasks: email, notes, summaries
Recommended: ChatGPT (free)
Excel, Sheets and data questions
Recommended: ChatGPT or Gemini with a described sheet
PDFs and long documents
Recommended: NotebookLM (Google, free)
Images: resize, remove background, generate
Recommended: Canva (free) for editing; ImgNimble (our sister site) for privacy-safe resizing
Study, revision and exam practice
Recommended: NotebookLM for material you have; ChatGPT for tutoring
Coding and automation
Recommended: GitHub Copilot or Claude for code; ChatGPT for scripts
Presentations and slides
Recommended: Gamma or Canva for slides; ChatGPT for the outline
Writing and rewriting
Recommended: ChatGPT for drafts; TXTNimble (our sister site) for clean-up tools
Research and fact-finding
Recommended: Perplexity (free tier)
Alternative: Google Gemini
Why: Shows sources with answers, so you can verify claims instead of trusting them. Good for "what changed", comparisons and background reading.
Privacy caveat: Anything you paste is processed on their servers; never paste customer data, unpublished documents or identifiers. Verify every number against the linked source.
Recommendations are editorial, tested by us, and change when tools change. Last reviewed by the AajAI team.
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