Everyone asks me the same question.

ChatGPT or Claude?

My honest answer is: it depends what you're trying to do. Which is not a dodge. It is the actual answer. I use five different AI tools on any given day and each one has a job. Using the wrong one for the wrong thing is how people end up thinking AI doesn't work.

Here's what I actually open and why.

CHATGPT

I still go here first when I'm brainstorming something new or trying to think through an idea out loud. Not because it's the best. Because it's the most agreeable.

ChatGPT will tell you your idea is great. It will find the angle you were hoping for. It is a people pleaser, and sometimes that's exactly what you need at the start of something. A little confirmation bias to get moving. I know what it's doing. I use it anyway.

It also knows a lot about me from years of conversations. I can go back and forth on ideas, test perspectives, and use it to sharpen prompts I'm going to run in other tools.

Just don't ask it to push back on you. It won't.

COMET BROWSER

This is my most underrated tool and the one people never expect me to mention.

Comet is Perplexity's AI browser. The difference between Comet and everything else is that it always understands context because we're looking at the same thing. I don't have to describe the page I'm on, the document I'm reading, or the problem I'm trying to solve. It can see it.

I can have side conversations about anything on the screen. And when I need it to actually do something, it can take over the browser and complete tasks for me.

That last part still catches me off guard.

PERPLEXITY

This is where I go when I need to actually understand something.

I'm a researcher by habit. I want to read the original source, not a summary of a summary. Perplexity gives me real answers with real citations and I can dig as deep as I want from there.

Google hasn't been useful to me for actual research in years. Perplexity replaced it entirely for anything that matters.

CLAUDE

I use Claude more than ChatGPT now. By a lot.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the best writer of any model I've tested. The writing doesn't sound like AI. It sounds like a person who read a lot of books and has opinions. I use it as the brains behind most of my writing, primarily inside Notion.

I also use Claude Code as the engine in coding agents. I don't run it directly in the Claude app for most coding work, but it's running underneath a lot of what I build.

If you want something written well, this is the one.

NOTION AI

Notion is where I run my life and my businesses.

Training, clients, content, personal projects, operations. All of it lives in Notion. So Notion AI is in a category by itself because it is not a separate tool I switch to. It is embedded in the system I'm already living in.

It can draft, summarize, organize, and connect information across everything I've built there. The fact that it has context about my actual work rather than starting from zero every time is what puts it in a different league.

The question isn't which AI is best.

The question is what are you trying to do, and do you have the right tool for that specific job.

Most people who say AI doesn't work are using one tool for everything. That's like using a hammer to stir paint.

Start with one. Use it for one specific thing. Get good at that before you add anything else.

THE BUNNY

"The best AI tool is the one you already have open. A second tool only makes sense when the first one has a clear job. Most people need to go deeper, not wider."

If you want to see how I actually set these up in a real workflow, that's what I cover in The AI Rabbit Hole.

Fall in. Find gold.

- Heidi