AI Productivity

Productivity is the least coherent category on this page, because it holds anything that does not fit elsewhere - search, workspace assistants, meeting transcription. What the ones that stick have in common is that they sit inside work you were already doing rather than asking you to move your work to them. A tool that requires a new habit usually loses to the habit.

So evaluate on integration depth first: does it read your actual documents, calendar and messages, or does it operate on whatever you paste in? The second is trust in the output. Summarising is the most common feature here and the easiest to get quietly wrong, because a summary that drops the one qualifying sentence reads perfectly. Prefer tools that link back to the source passage. And because this category involves handing over meetings and documents, the retention and training terms deserve more attention here than anywhere else on the site.