Andrei Alexandru

Quite good, I use it occasionally to save me hand-typing monstrous equations. I would buy if it was single-time licence, but it's not worth a subscription for me.

I'd find macOS unbearable without Alfred. It's easy to forget what "clean" macOS was like, because they've been shipping features that replace or complement what was a separate app, back in the day. I use this instead of Spotlight. I use it with a Pomodoro timer script that someone wrote and I just grabbed in <5m. I use it for all my keyboard shortcuts, because it's much faster than cmd+tabbing or anything similar. I use it for expansions for boilerplate code and LaTeX. I'm sure there are other, fancier features, but I don't use those. Alfred 4 was worth the money. The upgrade to 5 wasn't super worth it for me, but I did so to support the creators anyway.

Not quite on par with the closed-weights/-source models at the moment. But it's clear that lots of work went into this, and the result is the most capable open-weights model. Please don't call it open-source, because it isn't.

It'd be useful if it could detect different speakers in the same room by their voices. Otherwise this is pretty great — saves me having to type notes, and lets me participate in the conversation more attentively.

Daily driver since I discovered it, & never looked back. I like the interface; I like the speed. I even like some of the AI features, which is saying a lot, since most AI features these days exist for their own sake, rather than the user's. The little launch updates and videos are also cool. I don't use the boosts or any of those fancier features.

I've been using Notion ~every day since 2019. I love it, but I also hate it sometimes. Adding AI features was a net negative for me. The UI got clunkier & more annoying. It's obtrusive and pushy sometimes. I use LLMs every day, but for Notion in particular I wish they'd focus on more "prosaic" features that improve the product, rather than jumping on the LLM bandwagon.

Good user experience, genuinely increases productivity. Sometimes gets in the way, but it is not singular in this respect.