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Straight up - I’m sick as a dog right now. So, I’ll keep this intro short. Today’s newsletter covers some tools I use for content creation purposes.

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I always get asked how I write these newsletters and make my videos.

It all starts with proper research.

And great research starts with greater tools.

Today - I’m gonna walk through the chrome plugins I use to help me create the content you consume.

They can be broken into these categories:

1. Digital writing tools

2. YouTube extensions

3. Photo editing plugins

Digital Writing Tools

Don’t worry, I’m not going to tell you how we use Chat-GPT to write this newsletter. (We don’t).

But we do use the following tools to speed up the writing and editing process.

Grammarly

We write grammatically incorrect on purpose.

It’s called: voice.

But that doesn’t mean we want stupid mistakes in this newsletter.

So Grammarly is always on and calling out typos or improvements.

Speechnotes

I always read my copy out loud.

Because writing should sound natural.

So when my ideas are flowing, I love to use voice notes to text, then synthesize them into the newsletter.

Because sometimes, my ideas flow best verbally.

And I convey them in a voice note first that gets transcribed and organized into text.

Keywords Everywhere

I want to see search traffic in my browser.

When I’m naturally researching - I can see how much search traffic the topic I’m looking at gets.

This is the beginning of creating well-optimized content that people care about.

YouTube Extensions

vidiQ

I can see the analytics of competitor videos of similar videos.

So when I publish, I can see the likelihood that the video is going to success and what needs to be changed to improve the odds of success.

Loom

Ever exported a video? Takes forever.

Please don’t export every draft of a video for review.

Just record a Loom within the editor - so you can speed up the pace of feedback.

Video Downloader Plus

Ever seen video overlay in one of my videos?

If you find a video online that you want to use in your own, you have to download it first.

So Video Downloader Plus is a Chrome plugin that helps you download YouTube MP4, MOV, or MPG.

Photo Editing Plugins

Unsplash for Chrome

Unsplash is an enormous library for photos, and it’s available as a Chrome plugin. You can never have too many stock footage resources.

Sumopaint

The idea behind Sumopaint is to utilize the 10% of photoshop features that most people use and make a simple app.

It is a painting and editing application available as a Chrome plugin.

Tiny SketchBook

I’m all about visuals.

You have no idea how many people love this newsletter because we communicate visually.

This is an easy way to sketch early ideas before putting in the work for a final product.

Got any favorite tools that you love? Shoot em’ my way.

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