Google is reportedly engaged on a brand new function for Assistant referred to as Reminiscence, a mix of a to-do checklist, a notes app, a Pocket-like studying checklist, and Pinterest-style assortment board right into a single overarching digital locker built-in into the broader Google Assistant app. 9to5Google first revealed the feature, which is presently in “dogfood” testing for Google staff.
In line with 9to5Google, Reminiscence can save an enormous number of content material, together with “articles, books, contacts, occasions, flights, inns, photographs, motion pictures, music, notes, images, locations, playlists, merchandise, recipes, reminders, eating places, screenshots, shipments, TV reveals, movies, and web sites.”
Whereas Assistant already has a Memory feature for saving info (like a motorcycle lock mixture or a favourite taste of cake), the brand new iteration of Reminiscence seems to be a serious improve, one which appears to combine the “Collections” function that preceded it and be given high billing on the primary menu bar alongside Assistant’s daily snapshot view.
The concept is that you just’ll have the ability to save practically something, together with hyperlinks or screenshots, footage of objects or handwritten notes, or digital to-do lists or reminders. Reminiscence will then allow you to search, kind, and revisit the whole lot you’ve saved.
Relying on what you’re saving, Reminiscence may also embrace contextual info: save a recipe, for example, and it’ll present the cooking time. Save a film you wished to look at, and it’ll embrace a hyperlink to the trailer. And naturally, Google-based gadgets you save will get personalized preview playing cards.
To retailer issues to Reminiscence, customers can both use a Google Assistant command or a newly added dwelling display screen shortcut. As soon as added to Reminiscence, saved gadgets might be tagged (with classes like “Vital” or “Learn Later”) in addition to sorted or searched to discover a particular merchandise.
Reminiscence remains to be being examined, and Google hasn’t introduced any plans for when or even when it’ll obtain a public debut.
