Journalist Casey Newton rounds up the productivity tools that he currently uses. www.platformer.news/productiv…

In my experience, most people use software tools only begrudgingly, and will go to great lengths to avoid ever having to learn a new one. For some percentage of tech enthusiasts, though, trying out new software is a hobby all unto itself.

I count myself among this pathological second group, and will regularly drop everything to try out a new to-do app for no productive reason at all.

That’s me! And I often return to tools I’ve previously abandoned, to see if they’ve changed or I’ve changed enough to find them useful. I did that yesterday with Obsidian.

His use of AI is different from my own, but we have the same philosophy, and I think I will try some of his ideas. “… there are things that AI does for me that I would now hate to do myself, and hope never to do again.” I use AI to write marketing copy, which I then revise, often extensively; suggest headlines, article descriptions, three-bullet article summaries, transition paragraphs and to help me prepare for interviews. I also use AI as a kind of super-Google for research; I’m a good researcher, and AI makes me a better researcher.

What I do not use AI for, professionally, is doing interviews and writing. Those are the core of my work, and I’m great at doing them.

That feeling when you find out one of your absolute favorite novels by one of your absolute favorite writers is becoming a movie: An animated movie based on Robert A. Heinlein’s “Citizen of the Galaxy” is in the works. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/mo…

This movie could potentially be great. “Citizen” is both deeply personal and a galaxy-spanning space opera that could look spectacular onscreen.