Author: David Pierce
Google Tasks briefly looked like the answer to Google’s problem with reminders, but... nope. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Google appears to be dropping two features from its Assistant’s reminder-setting capabilities. It’s ditching support for assignable reminders — “remind Anna to bring in the trash cans this morning” — and location-based ones — “remind me to call Becca when I get to the office.” Google didn’t announce either change, instead opting to bury one in a support page and another in a pop-up in the Assistant app. Both features still work but evidently won’t for much longer.
Chalk this one up to the latest in a long, long history of Google doing a terrible job of turning Reminders into an even remotely useful system.
The list of chaotic Google product offerings is long, but I submit that none make less sense than Reminders. You can set reminders in...
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Google Tasks briefly looked like the answer to Google’s problem with reminders, but... nope. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Google appears to be dropping two features from its Assistant’s reminder-setting capabilities. It’s ditching support for assignable reminders — “remind Anna to bring in the trash cans this morning” — and location-based ones — “remind me to call Becca when I get to the office.” Google didn’t announce either change, instead opting to bury one in a support page and another in a pop-up in the Assistant app. Both features still work but evidently won’t for much longer.
Chalk this one up to the latest in a long, long history of Google doing a terrible job of turning Reminders into an even remotely useful system.
The list of chaotic Google product offerings is long, but I submit that none make less sense than Reminders. You can set reminders in...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...