But using the reminders, for those who aren’t intimately familiar with smart home equipment, isn’t always intuitive. Even if the automation process is pretty straightforward. So this guide will take a closer look at how to set reminders up using these systems. And how to manage the reminders you have.
Make sure you’ve got your smart home set up properly first
Of course, before you can use your Google Home, Nest Home, and Assistant-enabled smart speakers and displays for reminders, they need to be properly set up. The process for setting up a Google-powered smart home is relatively straightforward. And is nearly identically across gadgets. With that said, there are a couple of extra steps here too. Namely, ensuring that your voice match and personal results are turned on for the devices in your home. That way, when you set up Google Home and Assistant for reminders, they’ll recognize you. Allowing for wider use of more personalized reminders. The same will, of course, need to be set up for anybody in your smart device-enhanced home too. In case you want to set reminders for others in your home or allow them to. In this segment, we’ll discuss that process.
Make sure voice match and personal results are set up to get your reminders more readily
As noted above, you’ll also want to ensure that Voice Match and personal results are turned on for any other smart home gadgets that you may use. And, also as noted above, the process will need to be set up for anybody else in your home too. Or, at the very least, for anybody else who will regularly be using your smart home gadgets.
Set Reminders with your Google Home or via Assistant
Once your Voice Match and Personal Results settings are active, now it’s time to set up reminders for your Google Home ecosystem. That process is fairly straightforward, only requiring that you know the proper commands. Of course, variations on these phrases can also be used. For instance, you may ask Google to “set a reminder to” or “remember” something instead.
Here’s how you can retrieve and manage your reminders
Now, some reminders will be automatic. For instance, whether you’re using a smart speaker, display, or smartphone, your device will remind you of reminders you’ve set. When it does so, it will say something or throw a notification that says “I have a reminder for” and then the name of the person who set the reminder. Or for whom the reminder was set. For speakers, the lights on the speaker will then stay lit up for up to 10-minutes or until the reminder is checked. On smart displays, the display will show a card for the reminder until it’s been checked. And reminders for your phone will stay in place for that long too. However, it’s also possible to see reminders and manage them via a smart display or smartphone at a command.
Birthday reminders are automatic in Google Home, but you’ll still need things set up properly
For the final reminders, namely birthday reminders, you’ll need to perform a little bit of set up. If your speaker is linked to your Google Account, you’ll simply need to have added users to your contacts. You can also add birthdays for Assistant to remember in the Google Home app.
