Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe integration is surprisingly helpful

I topped the Kindle Scribe the ultimate relaxing productivity tool in my tech stack last year, and I am not placing it away any time quickly. Along with my very own scribblings, I exploit my Kindle Scribe Colorsoft for weekly planning, assembly notes, grocery/buying lists, and a myriad of different issues that require jotting down. AI constructed proper into the software program refines my handwriting and may even summarize my necessary notes, and it has turn out to be the one AI I exploit in any respect.

I did not assume it may get higher, after which Amazon announced its new Ship to Alexa characteristic. Ship to Alexa permits you to take particular notebooks out of your Scribe and ship them to Alexa, which may then manage, summarize, and pull necessary info from them. So long as you are an Alexa+ subscriber or Prime member, the instrument is yours. However what else can Alexa do along with your notes, and the way do you ship them to the AI assistant within the first place?

What’s Ship to Alexa on the Kindle Scribe?

Precisely what it seems like

Ship to Alexa is a brand new characteristic that permits you to share particular paperwork with Amazon’s AI assistant so it may use the data that can assist you go about your day and create motion gadgets. Shortly after you ship a doc, it turns into accessible in your Alexa app, Alexa.com and on different suitable Alexa units you might personal — like an Echo or Fireplace TV. Nevertheless, you’re required to have a Prime membership or an Alexa+ subscription. So how does it work?

As an example you simply had a very detailed assembly along with your boss and took notes in your Kindle Scribe — it included suggestions on a presentation, an inventory of concepts you each brainstormed, particulars on an necessary e mail to ship, and an upcoming assembly with a giant shopper. Once you ship these notes to Alexa, you’ll be able to ask the AI assistant (by way of the app, Echo gadget, or Fireplace TV) questions concerning the doc.

Usually, the AI assistant can pull out necessary factors and switch them into helpful issues. Listed here are just some issues you’ll be able to ask Alexa to do with the data it gleans out of your notes:

• Summarize
• Brainstorm
• Create to-do lists, calendar occasions, and reminders
• Counsel priorities
• Present steerage on sure initiatives
• And extra

You possibly can mess around with the stuff you ask Alexa. For instance, after I despatched it some notes from a gathering with my boss, I requested my Echo speaker, “Alexa, what had been the Kindle tales I pitched to my boss in that assembly yesterday?” I had pitched a dozen or so concepts, however the AI assistant responded with the six concepts I discussed that included Kindles. I then requested if my boss had requested me to do any duties after the assembly, and Alexa jogged my memory that my ‘homework’ was to give you 5 new concepts for our assembly subsequent week. I then requested it to set a reminder, so I did not overlook, which the assistant did from throughout my condominium.

This integration is a reasonably neat approach to make the Kindle Scribe even smarter. Writing one thing down on my Kindle Scribe and with the ability to reference it to my AI assistant with out getting up from my chair seems like one thing straight out of Star Trek. Now, I am tempted to vary Alexa’s summoning phrase to “pc.”

Methods to ship your Kindle Scribe notes to Alexa

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Launched in a latest firmware replace for the brand new Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Ship to Alexa has been slowly rolling out to customers over the previous couple of weeks. This is how one can ship particular notes out of your Kindle Scribe to Alexa:

1. Go to your Kindle Scribe’s Workspace.
2. Discover a pocket book you need to Ship to Alexa. Press and maintain it or faucet its three-dot menu.
   • It’s also possible to do that from inside a pocket book: faucet the highest of the web page > select the ‘share‘ icon (field with an up arrow) > Share complete pocket book > Ship to Alexa.
3. Faucet Share.
4. Select Ship to Alexa, and press OK.

It might take a couple of minutes in your notes to undergo. As quickly as they do, you’ll be able to wake Alexa up and ask about your particular notes to your coronary heart’s content material.