Whats the point of all these digital assistants, anyway?
To make life simpler, of course.
Although, the Assistant does that pretty well, too.
The Google Assistant can help you handle all of these tasks.
First, youll need to turn on AssistantsPersonal Results, available in the Home app for iOS and Android.
From there, triggering the feature is easy.
The Assistant will respond to let you know its filed away the reminder.
If you made the reminder with your mobile phone, youll see a notification pop up, instead.
To set a reminder based on location, take a stab at be as specific as possible.
These sort of specific locales become trickier to set up if youre in a large suburb or urban area.
Try mentioning the street address of where you want the reminder to pop up, instead.
For reminders near your home or office, you might program those addresses into Google Maps for better accuracy.
Navigate toassistant.google.com/reminders/mainviewin your mobile surfing app.
(Note that this URL will not work on a desktop net surf tool.)
iOS users can access this particular Reminders page with a simple bookmark.
For frustrated parents and roommates
Reminders arent limited to you.
The Assistant can program reminders for family members or roommates, too.
Google will send them an invite to join your home group.
The Assistant will respond if its accepted your reminder.
Location-based reminders also work here the same way youd program one for yourself.
At present, thisparticular featureis only available in the US, UK, and Australia.
Also, it wont work if youre using a Google account provided through work or school.
For the forgetful
Cant remember your neighbors first name?
Or your wifi password?
The Assistant can help.
Ask Google to remember a specific detail.
The phrasing is, Remember that my neighbors name is Bob.
When you want Assistant to recall that information, ask specifically, Whats my neighbors name?
and it will respond with what you asked it to remember.
For best results, keep the information as simplified as possible.
Asking the Assistant to remember specific caps and spacing for the wifi password might complicate the programming process.
For furious note-takers
The Google Assistant offers a straightforward note to self feature.
Ask Google to take a note, and itll file it away within the Assistant app.
When youre ready to access those notes, ask Google, What are my notes?
and itll surface the list on your mobile unit or smart display.
Want a more robust way of taking notes?
For more information on getting started with IFTTT, check out ourbeginners guide.
In this example, well do the latter.
In the first blank space, under What do you want to say?
throw in in what youll say to the Assistant so that it knows this specific command.
It can be any combination of words you find easy to remember.
Theres a space for you to decide what you want to Assistant to say in response to your command.
Again, this can be anything that indicates to you that this specific command is engaged.
When you finish, select Create trigger.
Next, youll be prompted to choose your action service.
The nice thing about IFTTT is that it offers lots of flexibility.
For the serious professional, this feature also works with Trello and Asana.
When you finish, select Create action to solidify the formula.
Google offers an officialAssistant-to-Reminders IFTTT app.
