Best AI Writing Tools: How to Overcome Writer’s Block and Email Overload.
How AI Writing Tools Helped Me Level Up My Writing Skills
Artificial intelligence is everywhere and is slowly changing our lives. I realize every day how much it changes my routines. I use voice recognition, a chatbot (see here on how I succeeded at making my own Landbot), social media (algorithms) and, of course, my personal assistant Alexa.
I began to consider how AI could help me combat my two work-related time-killers: writing and email overload.
- Which AI tools are best for writing?
- What is the best AI writing assistant for emails?
- Is AI writing free?
- Can AI help with writer’s block?
- Is AI replacing human writing? Can AI write a book?
These are the questions I put to the test when I tried out four AI text generator tools. Here is what I learnt.
#1 My favourite AI content generator applications.
Here are my preferred AI writing tools.
Writesonic
This is my all-time favourite. Writesonic is an AI-powered writing tool, producing high-quality text. It has a 4.8 star average on Trustpilot and saves so much time, especially with these features:
- Summarizing an article. This is 100% useful for my job, as I often need to digest and simplify complex text quickly. Writesonic actually creates a summary of any article with a click.
- The E-Mail writing feature. This is just awesome. I can finally save so much time on emails, as I only need to jot down the general idea of the message and Writesonic does the rest for me.
- Tons of other features, such as blog writing, social media content writing, and more.
‘Discover’ Writesonic here:
Simplified
Simplified is similar to Writesonic; it is a huge and highly performant AI-powered application. However, it leans more into the graphic design sector.
It even includes video editing. So, for creators and marketers, this is gold.
For my purposes, I tested these two features — I highly recommend them:
- AI writer. You can generate great, plagiarism-free, and keyword-focused texts. This is an awesome feature, as it can save you hours.
- Stunning templates. There are thousands of professionally designed, customizable templates. You can create logos, announcements, newsletters, and more. The best part is that no design or coding skills are required.
Simplified also brings multiple other features, such as brand kits, graphic design tools, and in-app publishing. You can actually use this app to design great marketing campaigns.
Discover Simplified here.
#2 Free AI writing tools with great features
Both Writesonic and Simplified offer free schemes. This is awesome!
Simplified is free for individual users. For small teams, it only charges $18 per month.
Writesonic has a free plan for individual users, with a limit of words. If you require more words, a very reasonable monthly fee of only $10 applies.
If you are a professional writer or member of a team, you might well consider a subscription, as it’s reasonable pricing and the amount of time you save in turn is priceless.
However, if you are on a budget and require more than the free schemes or number of words provided, what should you look for?
Here are two more great and high-quality tools: H-Supertools and Quillbot.
H-Supertools
I highly recommend H-Supertools to anyone operating online, especially independent contractors, who want to expand their business.
H-Supertools is a free suite for AI-powered SEO and digital marketing. It contains a huge set of highly useful web tools.
For me, in terms of the writing and email features I was looking for, this was less useful.
However, the powerful tool suite of H-Supertool is just simply amazing and highly recommendable for anyone in the digital and social media marketing field.
For example, it offers:
- Great SEO tools, such as a free keyword explorer and a question explorer.
- Email Checker. This is a free email verification tool. It helps you validate any email address online for free and check if the mailbox really exists.
- Outline generator. With the power of AI, you can generate an outline for your next article in seconds. Create outlines easily for articles and videos.
Quillbot
And last but not least, Quillbot is my favorite free AI writing tool for paraphrasing and grammar checking. You can grammar check your final text, paraphrase your text, expand your text, or even lengthen and broaden your content.
This comes in so highly useful for my purpose of writing emails or analyzing highly complex content at work. Check out these features:
- Grammar checker
- Plagiarism checker
- Summarizer
- Citation generator
For people who lack great grammar and creative writing skills, it is a really great tool and very reliable.
#4 Great news: these tools help with writer’s block
These tools definitely help with writer’s block, since they are designed to help with the actual writing process.
So if you find yourself staring at a blank page, not knowing how to start, they give you that first structure, that first set of paragraphs, to kick you off. After that, it becomes much easier and fast to develop your ideas from this starting point.
For my pain point of email overload, this certainly did the trick, as I no longer write the whole email, but only the outline and/or key message of the email. I save two-thirds of the time.
#5 Can AI write a book? Does it only assist us or does it go further?
Even futurists would have concluded some years ago that AI was only assisting us but that human creativity could not be replaced. The creative part of the writing, like writing a book or a good story, still has to be done by a human.
However, today, this is starting to change. Artificial intelligence is developing fast, and there is a huge field of research on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
AGI is artificial intelligence and machine learning, which comes close to human intelligence and creativity.
This is a fascinating and complex topic which raises a number of questions, also ethical ones, especially for business.
Reid Blackman published a very good book in July 2022 on the ethical questions that AGI raises, called Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI. Please also see the further readings below.
What really blows my mind at the moment is that there are tools being created as we speak, designed to help with the human brainstorming process.
For example, an AI tool that can help with brainstorming is IdeaFlow. This tool helps you to generate new ideas by asking you a series of questions. It then takes your answers and uses them to generate new ideas that you may not have thought of on your own.
Is that not amazing? To be continued…
Further reading
Working with AI: Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration (Management on the Cutting Edge) — 2022
Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI — 2022
My favorite book to get started is: Think again by Adam Grant. The power of knowing what we don’t know.
Mindset is everything
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More about Dr. Alex Steinberg
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Three Must-Reads
1. My top selection of best AI writing tools in 2023
2. How you can achieve any goal together with others
3. Read this if you have tried everything under the sun for building your team and it still won’t work
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Best wishes, Alex
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