My personal toolbox

While building, creating, and solving problems online, I've discovered tools that have made my work easier.

This is my personal toolbox – a living document of solutions I regularly use and recommend. No fluff, no affiliate links, just practical tools that deliver results.

I'm sharing this collection publicly because great tools deserve visibility, and someone else might find them as useful as I do. 

- Find deleted YouTube videos & metadata: Recover thumbnails, titles & even full videos that are no longer live.

- Emojipedia - For anything emoji

- TinyPNg: Compress png, jpeg, Webp Images

- Cobalt.tools: Download any media

- Canva: I use it to create designs for articles, books, and various other projects, including logos.

- BigJPG: Enlarge images

- Remove.bg: Remove background from images- WolframAlpha: Enter what you want to learn about and boom you have the answer. I mostly use it for personal finance - Stock, cost of living, fuel price etc

- Haveibeenpawned: check if your email address is in a data breach

-camelcamelcamel: Popular/deals on Amazon

- Similarweb: The amount of traffic a website gets

- Flourish : Create stunning charts, maps and interactive content 

- Epidemic sounds : Royalty-free music and sound effects for content

- ChatGPT - My default thinking partner. Great for writing, brainstorming, structuring ideas, and getting quick clarity on almost anything.

- Qwen - My go-to for deep, structured research. Great at breaking down complex topics and giving thoughtful, layered answers.

- Kimi - Handles long context like a beast. Perfect when I’m working with large documents or need continuity across ideas.

- DeepSeek - Sharp reasoning and surprisingly good for technical deep dives. I use it when I want a second brain on hard problems.

- Gemini - Excellent for research, especially when I need fresh perspectives or cross-checking ideas.

- Perplexity AI - Best for fast, reliable answers with sources. I also use Comet for automating browser tasks and workflows.

- Claude - My default for writing and reviewing code. Calm, structured, and rarely overcomplicates things.

- OpenAI Codex - Great for generating code quickly and filling in gaps when I already know what I want.

- Cursor - Feels like coding with a co-pilot that actually understands context. Especially useful inside large codebases.

- Claude Chrome Extension - Claude directly in your browser. It can read pages, click buttons, and automate workflows using natural language.

- Webhook.site - A lifesaver for debugging webhooks. Instantly inspect payloads without setting up a backend.

- Wispr Flow - I dictate, it writes. Fast, accurate voice input with AI commands and auto-edits. Removes typing as a bottleneck.

- NotebookLM - My thinking partner before presentations. Helps summarize, structure ideas, and turn rough notes into something coherent.

- ElevenLabs - The best text-to-speech I’ve used. Feels human.