Predis.ai is a pretty neat tool I recently discovered that can help generate carousels and videos for social media posts. It’s free (with limits) or low cost and it’s capable. Think it might be my favorite tool for drafting ideas as of now.

Looks pretty neat. Thank you for this recommendation, I think I will put it on my short list of tools to try in 2025

Hmm, I think I can put a widget like that to good use. Are there other helpful Chrome widgets you’d recommend?

I would have to say Trello, it makes it so much easier to organise all my tasks. As a Content Lead, I’m doing a million projects at a time (like we all do in marketing), so having a visual way to display and note down everything helps me stay on top of that ever-growing to do list. Even on the free plan, I get enough features to stay organised. 

My second one would have to be, of course, Sprout (wink wink, please give me the prize). Jokes aside, it’s so multifunctional and cuts down my workload by at least half. I work for an international company, so having all the channels in the same platform is amazing. I often have to do reporting for other countries and through Sprout I can easily get an overview of their activity and provide advice on how we can improve performance. This makes it much easier to prove the value of social media, as it often doesn’t bring as much revenue as other comms channels. And I love all the events you hold, the community, all the updates. It’s great to know that any time I need a feature there is an easy way to feedback to you and potentially make it a reality. So glad my organisation picked it as out social media tool. 

And the third one, which also isn’t unique, is Canva. It’s so much more than a design tool for people who aren’t graphic designers. While I love the design features, it has so many more features. It’s a much better presentation tool than PowerPoint, you can collaborate on whiteboards, storyboard videos, you can even create websites (I personally use it for mockups when we need to make landing pages). Honestly, it pays back its cost ten times over. 

Trello! I use trello every single day, it’s my go to tool for to-do’s and task management. You create “cards” (ex, To do Today, This week, wip) and then individual items within each card, which you can drag and drop onto different cards as you work on the task. I love that you can create labels, I do this to prioritize which tasks I need to complete first. I find this most helpful when reminding me that I need to follow up on emails. As soon as I send the initial email, i create a reminder for a few days later to follow up if needed. Best part is, it’s free! They do have a paid version, but the free version is pretty robust in itself.

10/10

 

Thank you for sharing your process! Our team uses Asana, but the board layout here in Trello looks very similar. I might check it out for myself or keep it in mind if we ever decide to switch.

I’m a big fan of Trello too! So much easier to manage all the projects I’m a part of. Our graphic designer also uses it and is very happy with it. 

I was a bit skeptical about ChatGPT, but having used it more, it’s quite amazing that we get so much for free. You can really speed up a lot of tasks and it doesn’t cost you anything. 

Gonna be really original with my reply, and I hate to say this, but:

• ChatGPT is my ride or die. It helps me brainstorm and validate ideas, it helps me develop and finesse copy, it helps me with data analysis, simplifying concepts, analyze meeting transcripts and generates followup to do lists, and sometimes I use it for emails and office politics (e.g. when I politely want to tell a colleague, that no, their idea is terrible and this probably shouldn’t be a social post… but like “make it nicer!”).
• Sometimes I also use Claude - I find the responses less robotic and copy so much more clever, but I don’t have a subscription, so my Claude time is limited 

There are things I absolutely hate about AI, and I also hate when people blindly copy-paste AI responses (you can tell immediately), but if you have some work experience and copy/creative work under your belt, it’s a fantastic assistant in producing content without the burnout. 

I feel seen on the office politics bit  Often I also copy my email and ask it ‘Is this passive aggressive?’ and suprisingly ChatGPT is quite good at getting the nuances. Both a little creepy and pretty cool

Girl yessss. Canva is also my ride or die. I swear when the company goes public, I’m all in. 

Canva all the way. Not to be a hipster, but I used it before it was cool. Also, CapCut for adding captions to video. Makes my life sooo easy! 

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