I tested 5 AI work assistants & here’s what stands out

Ok I spent my free time last month testing 5 AI Assistants tools I found. The goal: find one that actually helps my ADHD brain manage my notes, tasks, and schedule easily. Here’s what I learned:

Motion

• Many people hyped about it, but I found it pretty complicated. Its main feature is automatically schedule your tasks. Honestly, the UI overwhelms me, take a long time to know what is what. Too many features crammed in currently – project management, Gantt charts, etc. Not my thing, but maybe that’s just my ADHD.

Akiflow

• Connects your email, Slack, calendar, and centralizes it all in one inbox. I like the concept a lot – UI is cleaner and simpler than Motion. But their AI features are still in early testing, so it’s not really the assistant experience I was hoping for.

Notion AI

• Notion’s going hard on AI, but the results haven’t “wow” me like I wish with the Notion – Calendar – Mail thing. Its inline AI helps with writing. The AI chat is fine, but nothing groundbreaking. Notion’s email tool has auto-labeling, which is kinda cool. If you’re already deep in the Notion ecosystem, it might be useful. For me, the learning curve is just too steep.

Saner.ai

• This was a surprise. It’s the closest thing to what I imagine a real assistant should be. You can chat with it to find notes, create tasks, schedule stuff. It also integrates with email, Google Drive, Notion… The team is responsive. But this is till new, there are bugs here and there.

Mem.ai

• I think this was one of the first to push the “AI note app” idea. But honestly, it feels like they haven’t kept up with AI trends. The features haven’t changed much since I last tried them years ago. No task or calendar support either, which is a dealbreaker for me. The only pro is they are investing again in the 2.0 version

Right now, I still handle about most of my workflow manually, but I’m slowly offloading bits to Saner and waiting for future updates.

My dream is still to have a simple Jarvis without complicated setup that helps me get work done.

Hope this helps! If you’ve found any good AI work assistants, please share – I’m always down to try more