THE USEFUL TECH
5️⃣ THE USEFUL FIVE · FRIDAY ROUNDUP · ISSUE #013
Today's issue is sponsored by MacPaw.
👋 HEY, IT'S RAJA
Most AI apps on the Mac wait for a question, then hand you a wall of text to deal with yourself. Eney works the other way round. You say what you want done, and it does the work inside the apps you already use.
It comes from MacPaw, the company behind CleanMyMac. Here are the 5 jobs worth handing it first.
1️⃣ Get through your inbox backlog
Eney connects to Mail and Gmail. Ask it to catch you up on unread messages, draft the replies you've been putting off or send a quick email, and it handles the back and forth with the inbox for you.
You can type or just say it out loud. Eney understands and replies in dozens of languages, from Hindi and Japanese to German and Spanish, even though the app itself is in English.
2️⃣ Turn a meeting into a list of what happens next
Meeting Notes transcribes your calls and turns them into notes, a summary and a list of action points you can come back to later.
The useful part is the last one. Most meeting tools give you a transcript nobody reads. A list of who does what by when is the thing you actually needed from the call.
3️⃣ Plan your day before you open anything
Eney ships with ready-made workflows you run in one go, with nothing to set up. Plan your day builds your to-do list for the day. Morning brief and Review your week pull together what's coming up and what you got done. There's a news digest too.
It can also be proactive, surfacing upcoming events and next steps before you go looking for them.
4️⃣ Work on whatever's on your screen with Eney Wand
Eney Wand works on text, images and files right where they appear. Summarise a long article, translate a page or pull the key details out of a document without copying it into a chat window first.
That's the gap between Eney and a chatbot. You stay in the app you were using, and the result comes to you.
5️⃣ Clean up your Mac and your files
Ask Eney to sort your Downloads or Desktop, find a file you saved somewhere last month, clear clutter or free up storage. It handles documents too: create or edit one, split a PDF or convert a file to another format.
For bigger jobs, it breaks the task into steps and works through them, so one request can cover what used to take 5 apps.
Before you install it
Eney only touches the data you explicitly allow, like your calendar, notes or email. Grant the permissions for the jobs you want and leave the rest off. Like every AI assistant, it can get things wrong, so start with jobs where you check the result.
📍 Where: eney.ai
🎁 Free trial: 14 days or 10,000 credits, whichever comes first, with no credit card needed
💻 Needs: an Apple silicon Mac on macOS 15 or later
Try Eney free for 14 days
Start with the job you dread most this week, whether that's the inbox, the meeting notes or the Downloads folder, and see how much of it Eney takes off your plate.
See you Monday.
Keep it useful,
Raja · The Useful Tech
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