New AI article every Monday. Subscribe free →
Home/Blog

Every tutorial, tested before published.

Practical guides on AI tools, prompts, comparisons, and automation workflows. Updated every Monday.

01 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials How to Use Descript to Remove Filler Words From a Podcast Without Editing Skills

How to Use Descript to Remove Filler Words From a Podcast Without Editing Skills

By Shahid Saleem | Founder & Editor, PickGearLab | 5 min read If you’ve ever recorded yourself talking — for a podcast,…

MAY 15, 2026 4 MIN READ
02 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials Vintage library card catalog with one drawer open showing handwritten index cards

How to Use Readwise to Build a Personal Research Library From Anything You Read

By Shahid Saleem | Founder & Editor, PickGearLab | 6 min read Most people read articles, books, and PDFs and forget 80%…

MAY 14, 2026 4 MIN READ
03 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials Gemini vs Claude for Summarising Long Documents: Which One Stays More Accurate?

Gemini vs Claude for Summarising Long Documents: Which One Stays More Accurate?

By Shahid Saleem | Founder & Editor, PickGearLab | 5 min read I run long documents through both Gemini and Claude regularly…

MAY 14, 2026 5 MIN READ
04 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials How I Use Claude + Trello + Zapier to Automate Client Project Updates

How I Use Claude + Trello + Zapier to Automate Client Project Updates

By Shahid Saleem | Founder & Editor, PickGearLab | 5 min read Client project management has a specific failure mode: things fall…

MAY 13, 2026 5 MIN READ
05 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials How to Use ChatGPT to Write LinkedIn Posts That Actually Get Engagement

How to Use ChatGPT to Write LinkedIn Posts That Actually Get Engagement

Most LinkedIn posts written with AI are easy to spot. They open with a dramatic one-liner. They use three-word sentences for emphasis.…

MAY 13, 2026 5 MIN READ
06 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials Fathom vs Otter.ai for Automatic Meeting Notes: A Freelancer's Honest Take

Fathom vs Otter.ai for Automatic Meeting Notes: A Freelancer’s Honest Take

Both Fathom and Otter.ai transcribe your meetings automatically. Both produce summaries. Both have free tiers. But they take fundamentally different approaches to…

MAY 12, 2026 4 MIN READ
07 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials The AI Meeting Tool I Switched to After My Old One Let Me Down

The AI Meeting Tool I Switched to After My Old One Let Me Down

For most of last year I used Otter.ai for meeting notes. It worked. The transcripts were accurate enough, the summaries were decent,…

MAY 12, 2026 5 MIN READ
08 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials Three AI Tools That Turn a Client Brief Into a Polished First Draft in 30 Minutes

Three AI Tools That Turn a Client Brief Into a Polished First Draft in 30 Minutes

The gap between receiving a client brief and having a polished first draft used to cost me most of a working day.…

MAY 11, 2026 5 MIN READ
09 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials How to Use Notion AI to Plan and Write Your Weekly Work Summary

How to Use Notion AI to Plan and Write Your Weekly Work Summary

Every Monday morning I used to open a blank Notion page and stare at it for ten minutes before writing anything useful.…

MAY 11, 2026 5 MIN READ
10 / How-To & Tutorials
How-To & Tutorials Claude vs Gemini for Writing Technical Documentation: An Honest Comparison

Claude vs Gemini for Writing Technical Documentation: An Honest Comparison

I write a lot of technical documentation. Setup guides, API references, internal runbooks, client-facing how-to articles. For the past six months I’ve…

MAY 10, 2026 5 MIN READ