🎥 The async update
Check the mic and camera first, record the walkthrough in HD, and send the big file directly to a teammate's browser. The meeting that did not need to be a meeting, handled in twenty minutes.
Twenty tools for getting work done: record your screen, time your focus, keep your notes, transcribe the meeting, test the mic before the call, and send the huge file without a cloud in between. Everything runs in your browser, nothing needs an account, and your work stays on your machine.
The list starts with the daily drivers (recording, timing, notes), runs through the on-device AI pair and the meeting kit, and finishes with the personal trackers. Tools marked Premium sync can optionally follow you across devices with a $25/year plan; everything works free and local-only without it.
Full screen, one window, or a tab, in HD, with system audio and mic mixed in.
The how-to video, the bug report, the async update: record it right from the browser with no install, no watermark, and no time limit. Capture the whole screen, a single window, or just one tab, mix in system audio and your microphone, and export MP4 or WebM. The subscription screen-recording apps charge monthly for what your own machine does here free, and the recording never touches a server on its way to your downloads folder.
A clean countdown with an alarm, plus a lap stopwatch. Accurate in background tabs.
Set a timer for the eggs, the meeting slot, the workout interval, or the kid's turn on the tablet. One-tap presets or any custom time, a proper alarm, and timing that stays honest even when the tab is buried in the background, which is where most online timers quietly drift. The stopwatch side does laps for everything worth measuring.
A distraction-free notepad that autosaves as you type. Multiple notes, dark mode.
Open the page and start typing: it is already saving. Keep multiple notes with a picker, watch live word and character counts, flip to dark mode for late drafts, and download or print when a note graduates. Notes live in your browser, not on a notes platform's servers, and with Premium sync your collection follows you between machines.
Ask your PDFs and Word docs questions, answered by an AI running on your machine.
"What does the lease say about subletting?" is a question for the lease, not for a cloud service holding a copy of your lease. Load a PDF, Word doc, or text file and chat with it: the language model downloads to your device once, then answers questions fully offline. The 80-page contract, the insurance policy, the research paper: interrogate them without a word leaving your machine.
Whisper-powered transcription in your browser: audio in, editable text out.
The meeting recording, the interview, the voice memo you swore you would type up: drop the audio file and OpenAI's Whisper model transcribes it right on your device. Click any timestamp to jump the audio, fix the words the model misheard, and export TXT, Markdown, or subtitles. Transcription services charge by the minute and keep your audio; this is free and keeps nothing.
Check your mic, camera, and speakers before the interview, not during it.
The two minutes before the big call, well spent: a live mic level meter and waveform, a record-and-replay so you hear exactly how you will sound, a camera preview with resolution and real frame rate, and a left/right speaker test. Device pickers cover the headset-versus-laptop confusion, and friendly troubleshooting explains the permission errors. No meeting joined, no one watching.
25-minute focus sprints with real breaks, chimes, and daily focus stats.
The technique that survives contact with a full inbox: work 25 minutes, break 5, longer break after four rounds. Sessions auto-advance with distinct chimes for work and rest, cycle dots show where you are, and the daily stats answer the uncomfortable question of how much focused time the day actually contained. Wall-clock accurate even in a background tab.
Live city times side by side, and a slider that finds the meeting hour that works.
The eternal question of distributed work: what time is it for them? See live clocks for the cities that matter to you, compare zones side by side, and drag the meeting-planner slider until every column lands in acceptable hours. It answers "can we do Tuesday 3pm?" before the reply-all thread does.
Record from your mic with a live level meter, then download an MP3.
Voice memos, dictation, interview recordings, practice runs of the toast: hit record, watch the level meter confirm it is hearing you, pause and resume as needed, and play back before downloading the MP3. Recordings are exactly the kind of content that should never sit on a stranger's server, and these never do.
White, pink, and brown noise plus fan and ocean, synthesized live. No loops.
The open-office antidote and the light-sleeper's ally. Five sounds synthesized in real time (so there is no loop seam to notice at 2am), a tone control to warm or brighten the mix, and a sleep timer that fades out gently instead of stopping cold. Runs all night on a bedside tablet without streaming a single byte.
Flowcharts and process maps with drag-and-drop shapes, snapping connectors, and multiple documents.
Get the process out of your head and into a diagram the team can argue with. Drag shapes and connectors from the palette, snap them together, label and style everything, and keep separate documents for separate processes. Export images for the deck or the wiki. Diagramming that used to need a license now needs a tab.
To-do, doing, done: drag-and-drop boards with priorities, due dates, and labels.
Task management without inviting a platform into your life. Multiple boards, custom columns, priorities, due dates, labels, and undo, all saved automatically as you work. It is the board for the solo operator, the side project, and the household, and with Premium sync it follows you between the desk and the couch.
Monthly or full-year calendars with your events, photos, and colors, print-ready.
The fridge calendar, the team wall planner, the personalized gift: pick the month or the whole year, add your events and holidays, drop in a photo banner, choose the colors, and export a print-ready PDF in Letter or A4. Saved calendars stay editable, so next month's version is an update, not a rebuild.
Bundle files into a ZIP, with compression stats and an email-size check.
Twelve attachments is a cry for help; one ZIP is a deliverable. Drop the files in, see how well they compress, check the result against common email attachment limits before you send, and download the archive. No desktop utility to install on the locked-down work laptop.
Arrows, boxes, numbered steps, and real redaction for the screenshots you share.
"Click here, then here" deserves actual arrows. Paste a screenshot with Ctrl+V, mark it up with arrows, boxes, highlights, text, and auto-numbered steps, crop to the point, and copy it back out. When the shot contains an API key or an account number, redact it properly: the blackout is baked into the pixels, not a layer someone can lift.
A folder of IMG_4032.jpg becomes a tidy, numbered, searchable set in seconds.
Camera dumps, scanner output, exported reports: select the batch, set a prefix, suffix, or sequential numbering scheme, and download files with names a human can search for. The kind of five-minute chore that never survives contact with a hundred files until a tool does it in one pass.
The private answer to "what should we watch?": your list, your ratings, no algorithm.
Every recommendation you have ever been given, in one place instead of scattered across chat threads. Add movies and shows, move them to Watched in one click, rate them out of five stars, and search or sort when the couch committee convenes. Export CSV any time; it is your list, not a streaming platform's engagement data.
To-read pile, currently reading, and a finished shelf with ratings and yearly stats.
A private Goodreads without the social feed. Books move across three shelves as you start and finish them, dates record themselves, five-star ratings and notes capture what you thought, and the yearly stats settle how the reading year actually went. Import and export keep the list yours forever.
Write a note to the future, encrypted until the date you choose.
A letter to yourself in five years, a note for a child's eighteenth birthday, predictions sealed for the reunion: write it, pick the open date, and download a self-contained capsule file encrypted with AES-256 right in your browser. The capsule shows a live countdown and refuses to open early. No service to shut down between now and then, because there is no service: just the file.
The tools hand off to each other. These four sequences cover whole workdays.
Check the mic and camera first, record the walkthrough in HD, and send the big file directly to a teammate's browser. The meeting that did not need to be a meeting, handled in twenty minutes.
Record the conversation, let Whisper turn it into text on your own machine, and shape the transcript into notes and action items. The whole pipeline runs without the meeting leaving your device.
Brown noise against the open office, 25-minute sprints with honest stats, and a board that shows the work actually moving. Focus as a system instead of a mood.
Rename the scattered batch into something searchable, zip it into one tidy archive, and send it straight to the person waiting, no cloud drive round trip required.