{"id":33914,"date":"2022-06-02T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/googles-messy-reminders-system-just-keeps-getting-messier\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T18:40:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:40:12","slug":"googles-messy-reminders-system-just-keeps-getting-messier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/googles-messy-reminders-system-just-keeps-getting-messier\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s messy Reminders system just keeps getting messier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The list of chaotic Google product offerings is long, but I submit that none make less sense than Reminders. You can set reminders in Google Calendar, which sync with the Google Tasks app. This is good and correct behavior! But you can also set reminders with Google Assistant, which live in an entirely different ecosystem and don’t appear in Tasks. Google Keep is maybe the most chaotic: you can add a reminder to a note, and it will show up alongside your Assistant-created reminders but not in Google Tasks. They’ll also appear in a dedicated section of the Keep app, but none of your other reminders are there. <\/p>\n

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