#digital tools

Slanted recently published their issue #47, about digital tools, and its good! They also published a document as a companion for the issue which you can read and browse for free here:

I haven’t even gone through a tenth of it by now, and it has been three days now. So much to explore, so much to use.

I won’t post any images, but you can see more of the issue here:

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 13, 2026 Some people think AI will make their work better no matter what. It won’t. AI can help you write faster and organize ideas, but it cannot fix weak thinking. If your idea is unclear, your result will still be unclear. If your facts are wrong, AI can repeat those mistakes. The tool follows your…

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — June 6, 2026 A lot of people try AI once, get a bad result, and quit. Then they say it does not work. The problem is not the tool. It is how they used it. Most people give AI very little to work with. They ask short, unclear questions and expect perfect answers. When the answer is weak, they blame the…

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — May 30, 2026 Most people argue about whether AI is smart. That is not the real story. The real story is speed. AI helps you move faster. You can get a rough draft, a summary, or a list of ideas in seconds. That does not mean the work is finished. It means you are not stuck waiting to begin. That changes…

so I did that thing where you actually check your bank statement and add up all the little 20and20and30 charges. chatgpt, midjourney, claude, some coding tool I forgot I subscribed to...

turns out I was paying almost $200/month just to then spend hours being the human copy-paste between all of them. which is not exactly the AI-powered future I was promised.

anyway, I went looking for whether consolidated platforms actually make more sense than juggling 6 different subscriptions. came across something called GeminAI Agent that basically bundles google's AI tools (gemini, veo for video, nanobanana for images, deep think for code) into one dashboard

what's actually interesting: • one-time cost instead of monthly bleeding • runs on cloud infrastructure so it doesn't murder your laptop • includes commercial license if you do client work • the "agent mode" thing where it's supposed to execute tasks, not just respond

what made me side-eye: • some pretty bold claims on the sales page (standard for this space) • "autonomous" is doing a lot of heavy lifting • would want to see the receipts on google partnership specifics

the consolidation concept is directionally correct though. having 7 different AI tabs open and being the middleman between all of them is getting old.