e03 - AI AI AI

**Gianfranco Palumbo** (0:04)
Hello, and welcome to, I'm joking. Yeah, I wrote some stuff, but we can start just by catching up, and then we can look.
I did send you, sorry, I did send you a link, or somehow, I shared on simple note. I don't know if you've used it, or I've shared stuff with you before.

**Alex** (0:29)
No, I don't think I've seen it.

**Gianfranco Palumbo** (0:32)
It's like a simple note-taking app that you can also share with other people, you know.

**Alex** (0:40)
Interesting. I've seen two apps which are like AI-powered summarizing tools for note-taking. One is called MyMind, and another one is Napkin. So both of them use AI to organize, basically, your notes automatically, so you don't have to structure them or to search them. So it will think for you like what fits where, and also if there's possible connection between different notes. So that's very interesting use of the summarization thing, and also basically analysis of data.

**Gianfranco Palumbo** (1:19)
Yeah, but so you have to take the notes on this app and then it summarizes it or how does it work?

**Alex** (1:28)
Well, I haven't used the summary feature, but I have used just the organization. So it organizes it. Let's say like you have some ideas during the day, and you don't have the time to structure it. So you just like record them, either audio or writing or the video. It doesn't matter how, it basically transcribes everything into text and then summarizes it. Not summarizes it, but organizes it in a logical way. So if I took some notes during the week, and there's some relation between different notes on Wednesday and Monday, it will pull them together into one sort of visual cloud.
You know, this kind of clouds with different words. Word clouds, yeah. Yeah, so basically word clouds. So it's similar to this, where it has this different ideas, clouds of ideas, and like its structure, it structures the notes itself, and different like ideas from specific notes. They're very interesting. So basically it handles the organization, the structure, and all you have to do is just record the thoughts in any convenient way possible, which is great because I have all my notes are basically chaotic and I have to find the structure. Because one, in the morning, I have some things to note, and like in the evening, I have completely other unrelated things to write down. Then when I need to find something, it's just a mess. I never come back to it because it's just like unstructured. And I never structure it. And I assume that for majority of the people, it's just an experience. So I think it was like a great use of AI actually to use that.

**Gianfranco Palumbo** (3:22)
Yeah, I guess it depends because some people, I realize for me, taking notes is rarely for actually, okay, let me write this down so I can, I need to come back to it. And I have like a more to do list, or to do this list on Google Keep, which I use and say, okay, today I need to do this or this week or some specific day of the week. But if, for me, note taking on a notepad or the remarkable tablet or stuff like that is mainly like maybe I'm in a meeting or maybe I'm just like brainstorming or thinking about stuff and I write things.
Sometimes it is helpful to go back to notes, but I don't know, like let's say I was doing some interviews last week. And yeah, sometimes I maybe I write some specific facts or figures. But most of the time, it's kind of the act of writing, it helps me remember more than using them. But yeah, different people use them in different ways.

**Alex** (4:38)
Another cool tool I saw for AI is was basically analytics page for your personal usage of different APIs. So you could monitor how much you're spending on what, and you could set hard limits and just monitor, how are you spending money using different AI tools. This is a great idea, I think, in this gold rush, AI, because everybody needs this, you know, who's using. And basically, I mean, almost every developer is using right now some sort of API from AI services.

**Gianfranco Palumbo** (5:20)
Yeah, yeah, there's companies that even just managed your expenditure on IWS or Google Cloud or these kind of providers, because, yeah, you can really, especially if you have a startup and you don't have a lot of money, you can really go crazy. I got my first invoice from OpenAI, one euro or one dollar or something.