Here's an understatment: The internet is not designed to help you focus. Every platform and notification is engineered for the opposite. I'm guilty of picking up my phone for a 2-step verification, logging on to Gmail and forgetting that I was in the middle of verifying something. Yea...it's bad. Or, it was.
After several weeks of testing dozens of productivity tools, that I didn't even know existed, I've found that AI might finally be the way to get my focus back. I know that sounds crazy considering the amount of AI slop on the internet, but here are the seven AI-powered Chrome extensions that genuinely reduced the bottlenecks and distractions from my work.
