Five clever ways Gemini can automate everyday tasks
Engadget rounds up five ways to use Gemini for everyday automation: schedule a daily check of your calendar with estimated travel time between events, have it search the web and summarize news on a chosen topic at a set time, get weekly weekend suggestions for cafes and restaurants, and save repeat instructions as skills, which are replacing Gems and are invoked with a command like /skillname (Google says the @ symbol will be used soon). Subscribers to Google AI Pro or Ultra can also let Gemini Spark, the always-on agent, scan a week of email, summarize what matters, build a to-do list and add appointments to the calendar. The piece notes a limit of 10 scheduled actions at a time, that Spark is off by default and needs Gmail, Calendar and Drive connected, that Google says Spark checks with you before major actions, and that some features may be region-limited.