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Productivity

AI productivity and office tools

AI productivity tools automate knowledge work: research, documents, presentations and multi-step tasks. This category includes research assistants like Gemini Notebook that ground answers in your own sources, presentation generators like Gamma, and autonomous agents like Manus that plan and complete entire tasks — from market research to report writing — on their own. Look at source grounding and citations, output formats, collaboration features, and how much autonomy versus control each tool gives you.

Task guides covering this category

Each entry below is an existing brief with its own budget and the conditions it still lists as unmet. A price that fits the budget is not a completed task.

T8 · Compare ten PDFs in a Chinese evidence table

The task: Use monthly billing of at most US$20 to compare ten public Chinese and English PDFs into a Chinese evidence table, with traceable citations, noted disagreements and an exportable deliverable. File sizes and scan quality are not yet known.

Monthly budget · up to US$20

Candidates from this category

Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM · Unconfirmed; not recommended yet
Standard is free with 50 sources per notebook; the checked US bundle prices are AI Plus at US$7.99 a month and AI Pro at US$19.99, and neither is a separate Notebook subscription.

Latest source row read 2026-09-23

T10 · Compare tools for twelve editable PowerPoint slides

The task: Use monthly billing of at most US$15 to turn public Chinese materials into twelve slides, downloaded as PPTX so colleagues can keep editing in PowerPoint. PDFs, images, web links and editing only inside the original product are not enough. One-shot generation of twelve slides and removal of branding are not requirements.

Monthly budget · up to US$15

Candidates from this category

Gamma Free · Unconfirmed; not recommended yet
US$0 fits the budget. The Plus monthly checkout price was not verified, so no older price is substituted here.
Genspark Plus · Does not meet this task
US$24.99 a month, where US$239.99 is the annual total: over US$15.
Manus native PowerPoint Beta · Unconfirmed; not recommended yet
Current membership help lists Pro from $20 a month and Free Agent access to2.0Lite. The PowerPoint Beta article still names1.6 and Max rather than the current2.0 variants, so current Free access to native PowerPoint is unconfirmed. No verified monthly route inside the US$15 budget is established by these two pages.
Notion AI · Unconfirmed; not recommended yet
The previously checked Business annual-billed reference exceeds this task’s cap and billing condition. Free/Plus trial responses are a separate possible route; their remaining allowance, task access and any resulting charge are unverified.