Quick pivot today.
I was supposed to host Borrow the Room, but a migraine is gently (read: aggressively) suggesting I don’t.
So instead, let’s keep the tools conversation going because it came up recently around video editing and social media.
Here’s what I’m actually using right now. No affiliates links. Just what’s in my real workflow.
Gemini and Claude are slowly becoming my go to for ideas, helping me work through a problem or project and fpr editing my writing.
I’m also just getting into Perplexity and Comet — and I’m liking the research layer they add.
Opus Clip and InShot Pro.
InShot’s AI Cut button alone saves me from manually trimming every pause. One-take video, clean it up, done.
Descript is my current experiment.
Editing by editing text is a brain shift, but it’s speeding things up.
- And for YouTube optimization specifically
TubeBuddy and VidIQ.
Keyword data, title testing, competitor insight. I’m not obsessing over them, but I do like having that layer of clarity instead of guessing.
- For scheduling + analytics
Metricool.
Still the central nervous system. If I can’t see what’s working, I don’t trust the strategy.
Evernote and Google Drive.
If it’s not in the vault, it doesn’t exist.
None of this is about having the biggest stack.
It’s about building a workflow that supports your capacity. Especially when life (or migraines) show up.
Now I’m curious —
Are you more in the “simple and minimal” camp with tools?
Or are you building a layered stack like this?
What’s one tool you’d fight to keep if everything else disappeared?