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Users who use Inbox instead of gmail should get a lot more rich inputs to Now. Appointments would be deduced from emails, for example, and Now will show you tra
by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Users who use Inbox instead of gmail should get a lot more rich inputs to Now. Appointments would be deduced from emails, for example, and Now will show you tracking information taken from orders in your receipts, and much more.
- 0xmohit 10y agoNow hasn't started reading email now. Somebody gleefully mentioned to me several months back that Now reminds her of bills (due dates and amounts) automatically. Essentially by reading emails from gmail. I was also told that by evening it'd start telling by itself the approximate time it would take to reach home. For some such inputs are rich, for others scary.
- honkhonkpants 10y agoA computer program does not "read" your email in a meaningfully "scary" way.
- taneq 10y agoFor a third group, such inputs are rich if provided by an algorithm running locally, on your own personal data, whilst preserving your privacy. They're scary when they're the carrot used to persuade you to allow a full invasion of your personal life by an outside entity, which as a matter of course requires permission to store, search, aggregate, and use commercially all of the data that it finds.
- lijason 10y agoYou don't need to be using Inbox for Google Now to have the appointment and tracking information parsed out. That's a setting in Google Now separate from the Inbox app. (I don't use Inbox but get those in Now)