Amazon’s new Kindle Scribe integration is surprisingly helpful

I topped the Kindle Scribe the final enjoyable productiveness device in my tech stack final yr, and I am not placing it away any time quickly. Along with my very own scribblings, I exploit my Kindle Scribe Colorsoft for weekly planning, assembly notes, grocery/buying lists, and a myriad of different issues that require jotting down. AI constructed proper into the software program refines my handwriting and may even summarize my essential notes, and it has turn out to be the one AI I exploit in any respect.

I did not suppose it might get higher, after which Amazon introduced its new Ship to Alexa function. Ship to Alexa allows you to take particular notebooks out of your Scribe and ship them to Alexa, which may then set up, summarize, and pull essential data from them. So long as you are an Alexa+ subscriber or Prime member, the device is yours. However what else can Alexa do together with your notes, and the way do you ship them to the AI assistant within the first place?

What’s Ship to Alexa on the Kindle Scribe?

Precisely what it appears like

Ship to Alexa is a brand new function that permits you to share particular paperwork with Amazon’s AI assistant so it might use the data that can assist you go about your day and create motion objects. Shortly after you ship a doc, it turns into accessible in your Alexa app and on different appropriate Alexa gadgets you could personal — like an Echo or Hearth TV. So how does it work?

To illustrate you simply had a very detailed assembly together with your boss and took notes in your Kindle Scribe — it included suggestions on a presentation, an inventory of concepts you each brainstormed, particulars on an essential e-mail to ship, and an upcoming assembly with an enormous consumer. Whenever you ship these notes to Alexa, you possibly can ask the AI assistant (through the app, Echo system, or Hearth TV) questions in regards to the doc.

Usually, the AI assistant can pull out essential factors and switch them into helpful issues. Listed below are just some issues you possibly can ask Alexa to do with the data it gleans out of your notes:

• Summarize
• Brainstorm
• Create to-do lists, calendar occasions, and reminders
• Counsel priorities
• Present steerage on sure initiatives
• And extra

You possibly can mess around with the stuff you ask Alexa. For instance, after I despatched it some notes from a gathering with my boss, I requested my Echo speaker, “Alexa, what had been the Kindle tales I pitched to my boss in that assembly yesterday?” I had pitched a dozen or so concepts, however the AI assistant responded with the six concepts I discussed that included Kindles. I then requested if my boss had requested me to do any duties after the assembly, and Alexa jogged my memory that my ‘homework’ was to give you 5 new concepts for our assembly subsequent week. I then requested it to set a reminder, so I did not neglect, which the assistant did from throughout my house.

This integration is a fairly neat solution to make the Kindle Scribe even smarter. Writing one thing down on my Kindle Scribe and having the ability to reference it to my AI assistant with out getting up from my chair appears like one thing straight out of Star Trek. Now, I am tempted to vary Alexa’s summoning phrase to “pc.”

How you can ship your Kindle Scribe notes to Alexa

Just for the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe with a entrance gentle proper now

Launched in a current firmware replace for the brand new Kindle Scribe Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe (with the entrance gentle), Ship to Alexa has been slowly rolling out to customers over the previous couple of days. Here is how one can ship particular notes out of your Kindle Scribe to Alexa:

1. Go to your Kindle Scribe’s Workspace.
2. Discover a pocket book you wish to Ship to Alexa. Press and maintain it or faucet its three-dot menu.
   • You may also do that from inside a pocket book: faucet the highest of the web page > select the ‘share‘ icon (field with an up arrow) > Share whole pocket book > Ship to Alexa.
3. Faucet Share.
4. Select Ship to Alexa, and press OK.

It might take a couple of minutes to your notes to undergo. As quickly as they do, you possibly can wake Alexa up and ask about your particular notes to your coronary heart’s content material.