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10 mind blowing Siri hacks to boost your productivity

Posted by / March 29, 2014

I love to use the iPhone’s Siri function to make me laugh. I’ll ask it to tell me a joke, or ask it, “What does the fox say?” But I rarely use it to get actually work done because, up until now, I thought it was useless for that. Apparently, though, Siri can be supremely helpful. For example, I used to tell Siri to send a text. Then I would have to walk it through who would get the text and what the text would say. Now I know you can just say, “Tell so-and-so that I’m going to be ten minutes late.” If Siri doesn’t understand a name, you can add a phonetic spelling to the contact card, and then Siri will understand it. Most impressively, you can set Siri to give you location-based reminders.

It’s dead easy to tell Siri: “Remind me to get milk when I leave.” And when I step out of the door, the reminder pops up. There’s no need to tell Siri my location thanks to GPS.

You can also be very specific about your reminder:

There are lots of situations you can use location-aware reminders: “Remind me to feed the fish when I get home,” or “Remind me to say happy birthday to my boss when I get to work.”

Full story at Open Forum.

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  • Sophia

    I will try that and thank you

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  • Frogee

    That’s so cool thanks