Find workout slots by scanning the family calendar
A parent of five used Alexa+ at home; it scanned their calendar to suggest workout time and caught a forgotten soccer game and coffee to reschedule.
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- What they did
- Amanda Caswell tested Alexa+ for a week on an Echo Show 21 in her home of five. One evening she asked it when she should fit in a workout. It checked her calendar instead of guessing, saw her kid's soccer game, and reminded her of a catch-up coffee she had forgotten to reschedule.
- How it went
- It gave a calendar-aware suggestion and caught the forgotten coffee. The article gives no numbers. Elsewhere in the test it got facts wrong, such as a restaurant's hours, and sometimes needed repeating.
- Worth knowing
- Alexa+ was in Early Access at the time of the test, and the author recommends double-checking anything time-sensitive it tells you.
Try it yourself with Alexa+
Look at my family calendar for the next [number of days, e.g. 7] days and find [number, e.g. 3] open slots of about [length, e.g. 45 minutes] for a workout, avoiding [fixed commitments like school runs or meals]. Flag any events that conflict or that I might have forgotten, and suggest what to reschedule. Don't move or add anything until you show me the plan and I approve it.
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