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TL;DR
- Google could also be getting ready to take away the power to create and examine reminders straight inside Google Maintain.
- We’ve noticed Google testing some UI adjustments in Google Maintain, comparable to eliminating the ‘bell’ icon for setting any sort of reminder and eradicating the Reminders part from the sidebar
- These adjustments might sign a broader shift towards consolidating reminder performance into Google Duties.
Google has already eliminated the power to create location-based reminders from Google Maintain, and we’ve noticed clues suggesting this transfer might prolong to all reminders.
Whereas taking part in round in Google Maintain v5.26.021.01.90, we encountered a UI with no “bell” button to create a reminder. Right here is Google Maintain’s present reminder-friendly UI, in comparison with the way it might seem sooner or later when reminders are eliminated:
Eagle-eyed readers would have noticed a brand new “x” icon within the title space of notes, which can also be a separate and upcoming characteristic. This “x” icon reveals up while you edit the title of a word, making it simpler to delete/clear the whole title discipline of the word with a single faucet.
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Circling again to Reminders, the Reminders choice within the sidebar can also be gone within the new UI, as you’ll be able to see in these screenshots:
We additional experimented by making a reminder inside Google Maintain. When executed with the present UI, the reminder reveals the Google Duties icon with the time, because the Google Duties app will ship the reminder notification. The reminder syncs as meant, and we will additionally see it within the internet model of Maintain in the identical word. Nonetheless, within the upcoming UI with out reminders, the identical reminder not reveals the Duties icon or the reminder time — virtually as if reminders don’t exist in Google Maintain.
We don’t know if and when Google will roll out these adjustments to Maintain. It’s more durable to foretell removals, as there’s a truthful risk that the characteristic could possibly be re-added in a future launch. Nonetheless, given the present trajectory of Reminders inside Google Maintain, the writing is on the wall. There’s no have to panic, although — Google Duties will hopefully proceed to deal with Reminders because it does already, although switching between two apps would possibly push some customers to seek for a greater different.
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