’s Inbox has another tool to turn your messages into an easy-to-follow to do list.
Inbox now uses ’s natural language understing capabilities to recognize when a message contains something you might need a reminder about.
en the email app sees such a message, it will prompt you to add a reminder, which will join your other Inbox messages ( of course, ping you with a notification at the appropriate time or place). If you specify a specific time for the reminder, it will hang out in the Reminders tab until then.
Official Gmail Blog Reminders you create in Keep will also show up alongside your other messages in Inbox.
en I created reminders with Keep to test this feature, they also appeared in my Now stream. This gives three places to bug you about things, which hopefully means you won’t forget whatever that task is.
Official Gmail Blog Inbox will suggest reminders based on some of your emails.
is also more closely tying together Inbox with its excellent Keep app. Now any reminders that you add to Keep will also join your other stuff in Inbox. en you go to open the reminder you can view it in Inbox or touch the Open in Keep prompt, which will then take you to the Keep app.
If you’re cross-platform your reminders will also show up with Inbox on the web or in iOS. The Keep feature even works on iOS, taking you to Keep’s web app.
The impact on you: This is another case where is tying its services more closely together. The feature doesn’t require any type of app update—just fire up the Inbox app (the beta is open to everyone) try it out for yourself. And look for to keep adding in neat tools like this, as Inbox is clearly the future of Gmail.
