# Pocket Friday > A free Friday newsletter about AI for regular people and small businesses. Plain-English AI tool reviews, how-to guides, a prompt library and AI safety advice for regular people and small businesses, plus a short issue every Friday. The tone is friendly, warm and plain-spoken. There are no founder photos or on-camera videos; the focus is on useful ideas. Contact: hello@pocketfriday.com. ## How to cite When citing Pocket Friday, use the page title and its URL, and credit Pocket Friday, https://pocketfriday.com. ## Categories - [Small business](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/small-business/): Bookkeeping, customer replies, scheduling and simple websites. - [AI Safety](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/ai-safety/): Protect your identity, your accounts and your money. ## Tools - [Best AI meeting note takers for small businesses](https://pocketfriday.com/best/best-ai-meeting-note-takers-small-business/index.md): Check your meeting app's built-in notes first. If you need a separate tool and it's just you, try Fathom. Compare Fireflies and Otter on free limits. - [VEED vs OpusClip vs Riverside: check before you pay](https://pocketfriday.com/compare/veed-vs-opusclip-vs-riverside-social-clips/index.md): All three turn one long video into short clips, and all three are on our Watch list over billing and cancellation complaints. A checklist, not a ranking. ## Tools we cover Each tool we cover, with our page for it, its official site and our status (Pass, Watch or Not rated). Read our page before you pay: a Watch tool has a Watch out note. - [Circleback](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/productivity/#tool-circleback): official site https://circleback.ai/. Our status: Watch. - [Fathom](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/productivity/#tool-fathom): official site https://www.fathom.ai/. Our status: Pass. - [Fellow](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/productivity/#tool-fellow): official site https://fellow.ai/. Our status: Watch. - [Fireflies](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/productivity/#tool-fireflies): official site https://fireflies.ai/. Our status: Watch. - [OpusClip](https://pocketfriday.com/compare/veed-vs-opusclip-vs-riverside-social-clips/): official site https://www.opus.pro/. Our status: Watch. - [Otter](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/productivity/#tool-otter): official site https://otter.ai/. Our status: Watch. - [Riverside](https://pocketfriday.com/compare/veed-vs-opusclip-vs-riverside-social-clips/): official site https://riverside.com/. Our status: Watch. - [tl;dv](https://pocketfriday.com/tools/productivity/#tool-tldv): official site https://tldv.io/. Our status: Watch. - [VEED](https://pocketfriday.com/compare/veed-vs-opusclip-vs-riverside-social-clips/): official site https://www.veed.io/. Our status: Watch. ## AI Safety - AI safety reviews are on the way. See the AI Safety hub: https://pocketfriday.com/tools/ai-safety/ ## Guides - [Holiday deals with AI: pick the right prompt and buy safely](https://pocketfriday.com/guides/holiday-deals-with-ai/index.md): Six free shopping prompts, one for each kind of holiday shopping. Pick yours, check the prices it finds, spot fake markdowns and fake stores, and run a quick check before you pay. - [Protect your family from AI voice-clone scam calls](https://pocketfriday.com/guides/protect-family-ai-voice-clone-scam-calls/index.md): A familiar voice isn't proof an emergency call is real. Make a callback plan, pick a private family phrase, and know who to contact if money was sent. - [For restaurants: build your reply kit with AI](https://pocketfriday.com/guides/restaurant-reply-kit-with-ai/index.md): Build one page with 12 ready-to-use replies for the questions you answer every week, plus 3 replies for Google reviews. Save it where your staff can find it. ## Insight - [AI helped find two serious PHP holes. Email your host.](https://pocketfriday.com/insight/php-flaws-wordpress-host-email/index.md): AI helped find and fix two critical flaws in PHP, the software under WordPress. The fix is your host's job, so ask them to confirm it. ## Prompts - [Best deals at one store](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/best-deals-at-one-store/index.md): Pick one store and a budget, and get its best current deals with links. - [Our family code word plan](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/family-code-word-plan/index.md): Set up a family code word against voice-clone calls, with a teaching script for each group and a one-page printout. - [Find the best short clips in my video](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/find-short-clips-in-my-video/index.md): Paste your video's transcript (the written words of what is said in it) in line 3. No transcript? If the video is on YouTube, click Show transcript in its description and copy the lines; if not, type out what you say. You get 5 to 7 clips for social media, with captions and on-screen text. - [Find a gift they'll actually use](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/gift-finder-under-budget/index.md): Describe the person and your budget, and get 5 gift ideas, each with its best 2 or 3 store prices, plus one pick. - [Price check my gift list](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/price-check-my-gift-list/index.md): Paste your gift list and get 2 or 3 store prices for each item in one table, with links, what to order now and what can wait. - [Real deals in one category](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/real-deals-in-a-category/index.md): Name a category and a budget, and get deals with real store prices, not fake "was" prices. - [Recheck my prices](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/recheck-my-gift-list-prices/index.md): Copy the table from your first price check answer and paste it in line 1. You get only what changed and what to do about it. - [Set up an AI note taker the right way](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/set-up-ai-note-taker-right/index.md): Get a calendar invite line, 3 ways to ask on the call, a 5-box settings checklist, a 5-minute test and a notes template. - [Will AI shoppers recommend my product?](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/will-ai-shoppers-recommend-my-product/index.md): Open one of your store's product pages (the page that sells one item), copy all its words from the product name down to shipping and returns, and paste them in line 1. You see it the way an AI shopping assistant does, with the 3 fixes that matter most. - [The "is this real?" explainer](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/is-this-real-explainer/index.md): Got a text about a package, a toll or an account problem? This explains what it wants and how to check it safely, without tapping anything in it. - [Restaurant reply kit](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/restaurant-reply-kit/index.md): This writes a warm reply to each weekly restaurant question from your own facts. It flags unknowns with [ASK OWNER] and keeps the allergen rule safe. - [Is my PHP version fixed?](https://pocketfriday.com/prompts/did-my-host-fix-php2shell/index.md): Find out in one line if your site's PHP has the October 21 security fix, and get a ready email asking your host to confirm it in writing. ## Issues - Issues are on the way. ## About - [How we review](https://pocketfriday.com/how-we-review/): Our plain promises about testing, prices, independence and sponsors. - [Affiliate disclosure](https://pocketfriday.com/affiliate-disclosure/): How affiliate links work here. ## Feeds and metadata - [RSS feed](https://pocketfriday.com/rss.xml): New issues and insight as they publish. - [Sitemap](https://pocketfriday.com/sitemap-index.xml) - [Full text for agents](https://pocketfriday.com/llms-full.txt): Concatenated markdown of every non-sample page.