![]() I don’t have to put things in their designated place, I just have to put it on a Lazy Susan. When it’s done, the item goes away forever! It becomes a game of working to arrive back at a clean slate, list by list.Īnother winner is a simple Lazy Susan (or turntable). I can bark at Siri, who will dutifully add an item to a list. All without actually having a conversation! I use AnyList, a very simple app that started out as a grocery list for me, and has morphed into a way for me to tell my wife what I want her to do and for her to tell me what she wants me to do. This could easily be a full time job, especially as one tries to get their arms around decades of accumulation, and it is a job I will never finish.Īnd yet all is not hopeless! I’ve found a few tools that actually stand the test of time, at least for me, and make things better. It’s my fault, I know, but they encourage me to keep everything and work tirelessly to somehow organize it all. The fact is that most of these productivity and organization tools actually make things worse. It will be accessible from anywhere, on any type of device that way when my dishwasher is acting up and I am in Chicago, I will know exactly what to tell my wife to do. All paper will be scanned and appropriately stored online. Even now I’m awaiting delivery of the “best ever” label maker.Įverything in our house will then have its designated place and will be labeled. Winter and spring find me stuck inside due to snow or rain, and that launches me into a frenzy of organizing. It’s a terrible character flaw.Īnd these are the worst times of the year for me. But before I get anywhere near done, I discover something that’s “better”. I’m always trying to consolidate information in the single, best place. I have stuff in Evernote, G-Suite, Microsoft 365, Ryver, Confluence and many more. But I’m too easily entranced by something new, and therefore my information gets stored and dragged out across multiple platforms. I’m always seeking a way to be better organized. I’m always looking for some tool that will make a job easier and faster. I’m a productivity junkie who’s easily bored. You can't ask it to show your notes, though you seem to be able to create new text ones.įor more nuances on how to set this integration as well as all the voice commands you can say, check Google's support pages for using notes on your phone or speaker, and using lists on your phone or speaker.By David Scott, Managing Member at Avid Communications text or audio or image notes, not lists) won't be seen by Assistant. So all notes you have in the app that don't have checkmarks (i.e. With that done, Assistant should add to the one you're using, and not the legacy list.Īnother quirk we've discovered is that Google Keep is recognized as a list provider only. ![]() If you'd like to use this for a shopping list, you should start by renaming the one Assistant automatically created for you under Settings > Services > Shopping list to something other than "shopping," then create a Shopping list in Keep, Any.do, Bring, or AnyList. You can pick the service you want to integrate with Assistant there. The Notes & Lists menu in Assistant's settings appears to be live for everyone now - or at least it is for all the accounts and devices we checked.
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