The Gemini app for Home windows is a entrance web page of types to Gemini’s generative content material: the LLM chatbot itself, which is all that seems should you refuse to check in to Google’s providers with a Google account. When you do, that unlocks the power to entry saved chats, plus devoted tabs for photographs, video, and a saved library of the identical. Optionally connecting Gemini to your Workspace account (Gmail, Drive, and extra) permits entry to a “each day transient” of your most vital emails.
That ought to be a productiveness increase, proper? Properly…
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Competing choices, like ChatGPT’s Home windows app, let you join the agent to your desktop or providers like Slack. There, these brokers can take actions for you. Gemini can’t even do this.
Supposedly, one of many new Gemini app options entry to Spark, Google’s customized AI agent, at the very least in Google’s weblog publish. I didn’t see it within the app, both as a function or perhaps a potential upsell. (I’m at the moment not paying $100 per thirty days to Google to entry Spark through a Professional plan, which can have affected what the app confirmed me.)
As a substitute, the app directed me to the “Scheduled Actions” through the Settings menu on the backside of the web page, the place I might pattern Google’s recommendations, akin to sending me a recipe each weekend or suggesting a motivational quote each morning.
If you happen to obtain the Gemini app for Home windows, be sure to discover the Settings menu additional. There, the “Private Intelligence” tab will let you activate (or off) Gemini’s reminiscence about you. A separate “Import reminiscence to Gemini” tab means that you can inform different LLMs to summarize what they find out about you after which feed that data to Gemini. (My colleague Ben stories that Anthropic’s Claude does this as nicely.) There are a couple of different controls to tweak, too.