Ideal set ups - tools

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Would @Joshua and @gregdetre be up for sharing their own ideal “stack” of the various tools they use for daily workflows and with Rebel (e.g. speech to text, meeting transcriptions, Limitless, Replit, Gamma, CRMs, task management, etc.)? Or perhaps even better, a few different options for different personas, e.g. highly technical super user vs less technical generalist. That would be awesome!

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A very polite, thoughtful, and respectful (!) gentle nudge to @Joshua and @gregdetre - this would be super valuable for your legion of fans!

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Great question @paulchristensen! Here’s a quick rundown from Josh and me on the tools we actually use day-to-day alongside Rebel.

Voice & Dictation

  • Rebel’s built-in voice mode — our default for most things. Works well for quick commands and longer dictation.
  • VoiceInk (Greg) — a Mac app that does local speech-to-text. Great when you want offline, privacy-first dictation outside Rebel. And it’s really fast.
  • Monologue (Josh)

Meeting Notes & Transcription

  • Fathom (Greg) — excellent meeting notetaker for Zoom/Meet/Teams. Free unlimited recordings, and it has an MCP so Rebel can pull in transcripts directly.
  • Fireflies.ai (Josh) — similar to Fathom with broad platform support.
  • Granola — a great option too, especially now it has its own MCP integration.
  • Rebel’s built-in meeting bot — we’re building our own meeting notetaker into Rebel, but it’s still in alpha so we don’t yet recommend it for production use.

For in-Person Recording

  • PLAUD (Josh) — physical AI voice recorder for in-person meetings. Worth noting that Limitless pendants were popular but they were acquired by Meta and no longer work in the UK.

Task Management

  • Things (Greg) — by Cultured Code. Beautiful personal task manager for Apple devices.
  • Todoist (Josh) — cross-platform, great natural language input.

Development & Coding

  • Droid — by Factory AI. We use this with our own custom workflow. The key insight: tools like Droid and Cursor support multi-model subagents — you can have Claude, GPT, and others all pile in and critique each other’s work. We think that provides a substantial boost beyond what you get with a single model like Claude Code alone.

CRM & Ops

  • HubSpot — we use this internally for a lot of workflows. Rebel has a rich MCP connector for it that our ops & sales team make heavy use of.

Analytics

  • PostHog — open-source product analytics. Rebel has an MCP for it too, so you can query your analytics data conversationally.

Creative & Presentations

  • Nano Banana — Google’s Gemini image generation, which Rebel has an MCP for. Handy for quick image creation right from a conversation.
  • Gamma (Josh) — AI presentation builder. You can generate presentations via its MCP, though read/edit isn’t supported yet.
  • Kling AI — amazing for generating presentation visuals and video content. No MCP yet, but the output quality is impressive.

:key: The Big One: Build Your Own Internal MCP

  • Beyond specific tools, one of the highest-value things you can do is invest in building a custom MCP for your own company’s internal systems. Once Rebel can talk to your internal tools, databases, and APIs directly, the range of what it can help with expands dramatically. Rebel actually has an experimental @build-custom-mcp-server that will try and build an MCP server for you, if there’s an existing API.

Hope that’s useful! Would love to hear what others in the community are using too.

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