Google’s messy Reminders system just keeps getting messier
by David Pierce from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZY3Z)
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...