A better Apple Notes?

Happy Friday, anon! Welcome back to the Leaderboard. In todays edition, we're taking a look at: A project management tool that aims to free up more of your time, an AI product that could become an animator's best friend, and an app that feels like a futuristic Apple Notes.

Height 2.0: An autonomous project management tool.

Project management tools tend to promise a lot and deliver... well, mixed results. Height is taking a swing at that by embedding AI directly into the process, automating the tedious stuff—bug triage, backlog management, spec updates. The idea of a tool that can just handle these tasks for you is appealing, but I can’t help but wonder: how well does the AI actually perform when the tasks get more complex? I love the concept of less manual work, but I’ve seen automation trip over the details before. If Height can really pull this off, it might just free up builders to do what they’re best at—building

Generate Anything: AI to generate, rig, and animate 3D objects.

I’ve messed around with plenty of 3D model generators, and most of them are good at one thing: giving you a lifeless figure and then leaving you to figure out the rest. Generate Anything is trying to change that by letting you not only create but also rig and animate—all in one place. It sounds super convenient, but part of me wonders: will it really handle the complexity of animation, or is this another case of "almost there but not quite"? I love the idea of skipping between fewer tools, but I’m curious to see if it can live up to that promise without compromising on quality.

Echo: AI voice and text note-taking mobile app.

As someone given to dictating notes and mulling over ideas out loud, I can certainly see the value of Echo. I like that the app includes an option to polish off-the-cuff voice notes with AI, and that it intelligently groups notes by topic. I’m not sure whether Echo will eventually be able to compete with, e.g., Notion, which already has its own AI-powered voice note feature. But its clean UI and AI integration could probably pull users away from the iOS Notes app or similar competitors