Free Tools for the AI Era
Turn methods into tools
you can actually use.
15 free online tools spanning content creation, AI productivity, and personal brand & monetization — each one grows out of a method written up in the nshidai.com articles, a living example of the ideas put into practice.
Content
Social Media Character Counter
Paste your copy to count characters in real time against each platform's limit; voiceover mode estimates finished-video length from your speaking pace.
Open tool →Prohibited Words Checker
Paste your copy to scan locally for advertising-law superlatives and platform-sensitive words; every hit is highlighted with a replacement suggestion, and nothing leaves your browser.
Open tool →Markdown to WeChat Formatter
Paste Markdown and instantly generate polished formatting you can paste straight into the WeChat Official Account editor, with switchable themes.
Open tool →Quote Card Generator
Type in a line of text and generate a share-card image sized for Xiaohongshu / WeChat Moments, with multiple templates to choose from.
Open tool →AI Productivity
Structured Prompt Builder
Fill in a three-part framework — role / input constraints / output format — to generate well-structured prompts, and save them to a local prompt library for repeated reuse.
Open tool →Chinese Token Calculator
Paste text or enter your call volume to estimate token counts for mainstream LLMs and compare API costs (in RMB).
Open tool →Long-Form Splitter
Coming soonPaste a long article and AI generates social posts, a key-points list, and a newsletter draft — one draft, many uses.
Open tool →Prompt Optimizer
Coming soonPaste a rough prompt and AI completes it into an optimized, structured version, explaining every change.
Open tool →Topic Question Rewriter
Coming soonEnter a vague topic direction and AI rewrites it into the specific question phrases readers actually search for; save the ones you pick to a local topic library.
Open tool →AI Meeting Notes Organizer
Coming soonPaste a meeting transcript and AI structures it into conclusions / action items / open issues / next agenda, flagging any missing 'who' and 'when'.
Open tool →Personal Brand & Monetization
Personal Brand Maturity Self-Assessment
Answer a few questions across five dimensions to get a radar chart, a graded diagnosis, and action advice for your weakest link.
Open tool →Personal Website SEO Checklist
Tick through your site's SEO basics one by one, with a built-in title/description search-result preview.
Open tool →Freelance Rate Calculator
Enter your target annual income and billable time to work out hourly / daily / project rates, and generate a quote with scope boundaries.
Open tool →Monetization Fit Self-Assessment
Answer questions about audience, trust, and delivery capacity to get a fit ranking of five monetization paths, with stage-based advice.
Open tool →Personal Brand Positioning Statement Generator
Answer the three positioning questions to generate an 'I help whom solve what, in what way' statement and bio candidates.
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