The Productivity Tools hub is a curated "best-of" set — the Ai2Done tools that office workers, freelancers and small business owners reach for most often during a typical week. Instead of presenting all 249 tools at once, this hub surfaces the dozen or so that anchor the most common workflows: merging PDFs, compressing files for email, converting documents between formats, formatting structured data, and extracting text from scans.
The anchor tools include Merge PDF (combine receipts and invoices for expense reports), Compress PDF (shrink scanned documents before emailing), Image Compress (reduce photo sizes for web upload or attachment), PDF to Word (get an editable copy of a report), Extract Text (pull readable content out of scanned PDFs), and Format JSON (inspect API responses without leaving the browser).
The shared character of these tools is that each one solves a specific recurring problem in seconds, runs entirely in your browser (no upload), works offline once the tab has loaded (useful on flights and in cafés with patchy Wi-Fi), and has zero ongoing cost. The combination is what makes them part of a daily routine rather than a once-a-year emergency download.
Heavy users include consultants assembling proposal decks, freelancers compressing deliverables before client handoff, accountants merging year-end statements, HR teams converting CVs between formats, and developers debugging API responses. For each of those personas, the relevant subset of the hub becomes a pinned bookmark and the rest of Ai2Done's 249 tools serve as the "for when you also need …" depth.
For each tool in this hub the deeper category exists elsewhere: the PDF Tools hub for everything PDF, the Image Tools hub for visual editing, the Format Tools hub for structured data, and the OCR Tools hub for text extraction. Start with this hub if you are new to Ai2Done — it will get you to the most-used 80% with the least navigation — and explore the category hubs when your workflow needs the more specialised tools.