Alex Hughes

2 weeks ago | tomsguide.com | Alex Hughes

If I don’t write something down, it will be gone from my brain forever. I am the kind of person who needs every date, name, and random bit of trivia noted down, or it will vanish into the abyss. This has resulted in me trying just about every reminder or notes app under the sun. And it's been a pretty hit-and-miss experience. While I've been able to make things work with these off-the-shelf apps, it’s still not the exact thing I want.

2 weeks ago | inkl.com | Alex Hughes

Claude on laptop. If I don’t write something down, it will be gone from my brain forever. I am the kind of person who needs every date, name, and random bit of trivia noted down, or it will vanish into the abyss. This has resulted in me trying just about every reminder or notes app under the sun. And it's been a pretty hit-and-miss experience. While I've been able to make things work with these off-the-shelf apps, it’s still not the exact thing I want.

2 weeks ago | tomsguide.com | Alex Hughes

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of AI tools out there. Despite this, I end up using the same small collection each day. This isn’t necessarily a surprise. Those few tools are made by those with massive training sets (and massively deep pockets). But that doesn’t mean there isn’t any value in trying something new. I spent the past week looking outside of AI’s mainstream, trying a few new AI tools to see if anything would make it into my daily routine.

2 weeks ago | tomsguide.com | Alex Hughes

Last year, Apple unveiled Image Playground — a tool to turn your descriptions or people from your photo library into AI images. It was plagued with issues, complaints, and users feeling it was lagging behind the best AI image generators. But now Apple is bringing it back — with a little help. The company announced at WWDC 2025 it is integrating ChatGPT into Image Playground in order to turn things around. This should allow for better, more advanced AI image generation while using the software.

2 weeks ago | tomsguide.com | Alex Hughes

There is an art to prompting AI. While a chatbot will answer almost any kind of question, no matter how you phrase it, they are designed to operate best with incredibly specific instructions. This can be hard to work out yourself, needing a bit of understanding about how the models work. Most of the large companies in AI now have prompting guides, explaining how best to use them, but Anthropic’s Claude goes a step further.