The greatest thing about Amazon’s universally acclaimed Alexa virtual assistant may well be how often the company adds cool new features and capabilities to improve both its power and versatility. Some of these are obviously more important than others, and while many smaller updates tend to fly under the radar for the general public, users that might stumble into a freshly released feature will sometimes be pleasantly surprised by what they can do without lifting a finger to make their lives easier.
Case in point, let’s say you don’t know when this year’s (delayed) Academy Awards will unfold and you also want to be reminded of the ceremony on the big day. Instead of using two different voice commands, you can rely on this single feature to get both jobs done simultaneously.
If that doesn’t impress you much, you might be pleased to hear the feature also supports emails in addition to things like sporting events, TV shows, and public holidays. In other words, if you’re not too worried about privacy, you can ask Alexa to “tell” you “when” an important contact sends you an email so you don’t have to constantly and manually check your inbox like some sort of a savage.
Naturally, that doesn’t quite make this feature life-changing in any meaningful way, but it pretty much goes without saying that you can find a decent use for it from time to time to keep you informed of all the stuff you’re interested in.
