📷 TikTok's year in review is a quick hit of 2023’s top videos, songs, and people.

🍟 McDonalds is using AI to make sure your fries are fresh.

📸 Instagram has a new AI backdrop feature – here’s how to use it.

🧵 EU users, here we go! Threads has landed for you.

🎨 Figma launched a new keyboard for all your design shortcuts.

🖼️ Google dropped a new text-to-image modal to rival DALL-E.

Ever wonder what the conversion metric is from your brain's ideas to "paper"? I'd be afraid to find out, but it’s a problem I know many can relate to — even a Notion superuser.

Another productivity notes app has launched to improve your idea capture, but the demo video for this one, called Ideaflow, shows a promising example of what it could mean to be “the best version of yourself” as a notetaker.

With Idealfow, you can record your voice, and the AI parses your input and creates structured notes. Notes are organized with hashtags (#) and note references (+) so you can do things like filter your notes/thoughts later on.

Ideaflow is meant to be a replacement for tools like Apple Notes, but work alongside more robust productivity apps like Notion.

The startup has bagged $18M in seed funding so far, according to Crunchbase, and an impressive team roster, with advisors like Naval Ravikant (Angelist) and Joe Lonsdale (Palantir).

Co-founder Jacob Cole notes on his LinkedIn that the idea for Ideaflow evolved while the makers were at MIT doing research with Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web creator, among other things) on the concept of a “shared brain” to extend the human mind into the computer.

So, if you’re a person who talks to themselves, has ideas while showering or driving, or goes to events (i.e. everyone), take a look at Ideaflow.

🚗 That’s a lot of Teslas: ICYMI: Tesla is issuing a remote update to nearly 2 million units across the US in what some are describing as a recall. The company agreed to issue the “recall” after meetings with federal regulators. 

🎧 Meta’s new AI: Meta dropped its successor to Voicebox called Audiobox. The new generative AI model lets people use natural language to describe a sound or type of speech they want to generate.

🍿 We’re still watching: For the first time ever, Netflix has released data on viewing time across its catalog, starting with the first half of 2023. It’s a boring spreadsheet, but if you want recs on what to watch, go download it.

Whether you’re a developer, designer, marketer or just want to be more productive, here are some top tools to help you start your week off.

PRODUCTIVITY 

• This tool uses AI to transform your thoughts into actionable plans.
• Tube lets you summarize and listen to podcasts and videos in 30 seconds

DEV TOOLS 

• Kapstan is a DevSecOps platform to deploy secure, production-ready infrastructure with ease.
• Merlin is a unified API for AI modals like Gemini, GPT-4, and more.

DESIGN 

• Snapby AI is an image generator Figma plugin for designers.
• TailGrids is a UI library and design system for Figma.

MARKETING

• Findable quickly generates thousands of SEO-ready pages for your site.
• PriceGPT lets you analyze your and a competitor’s pricing page.