The 2025 AI Power User Stack: Tools That Actually Save Time

The era of the "All-in-One" tool is over. In 2025, productivity is about the Stack: a curated set of specialized, high-performance tools that do one thing perfectly and interoperate seamlessly.

If you are a developer, designer, or researcher, you likely already have a stack for your traditional work. But what about your AI work?

Here is the definitive AI Power User Stack for 2025.

1. The Input Layer: Raycast

Role: Speed & Access.

Stop opening a browser tab to ask a quick question. Raycast (with its AI extension) brings the model to your fingertips. It's perfect for "quick hits": fixing a regex, translating a phrase, or generating a shell command.

• Why it wins: Zero friction. It lives in your keyboard.

2. The Processing Layer: ChatGPT + Chat Navigator

Role: Deep Work & Synthesis.

For complex tasks—writing a spec, debugging a race condition, planning a trip—you need the full context window of ChatGPT. But as we've discussed, the native interface is a bottleneck.

Chat Navigator is the missing link here. It adds the "IDE" layer to the LLM. It gives you the structure, navigation, and overview that Raycast can't provide and that the native UI lacks.

• Why it wins: It turns a chat stream into a structured workspace.

3. The Storage Layer: Obsidian

Role: Long-term Memory.

AI conversations are ephemeral. Your knowledge shouldn't be. The goal of every AI session should be to extract a permanent artifact.

Obsidian is the perfect destination. It's local, markdown-based, and future-proof.

• The Workflow:
  1. Generate insights in ChatGPT.
  2. Use Chat Navigator to structure the output.
  3. Export to Markdown.
  4. Paste into Obsidian.

4. The Execution Layer: Linear

Role: Action.

Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. If your AI brainstorm results in a list of tasks, they need to go where work happens. Linear is the standard for high-performance product teams.

• Pro Tip: Use Chat Navigator to generate a structured list of user stories, then export them directly to a format you can bulk-import into Linear.

Build Your Stack

Don't settle for default interfaces. The best professionals curate their tools. By combining Raycast for speed, Chat Navigator for structure, and Obsidian for memory, you build a workflow that compounds in value over time.

Start building your stack today with Chat Navigator.