How to Use Gemini's New 'Scheduled Actions' (and a Few I Recommend)

We had a preview of many New upcoming features in Gemini on Google IO And one of the most interesting is the deployment right now. The new Function of planned actions Allows you to tell Gemini to execute prompts at certain times in the future, and even to reappear regularly. It seems small, but it opens up a lot of new possibilities.

This planning function is designed to operate in a transparent manner with ordinary gemini prompts. Ask the chatbot to perform or repeat a task in the future and it will automatically plan the tasks. You can even convert an existing cat to a planned action. Here’s how it works and some ideas for what you can do with it.

How the actions programmed in Gemini work

Although the planning functionality should simply work, in theory, there are a few nuances in practice. During my tests, the Gemini sometimes took place and told me that he could not perform a task now based on information in the future. However, clarifying follow -up has generally done the trick.

There are also some key limitations:

• You will need a subscription. For the moment, this feature is only available for paid users. You will need Let google ai pro or the Google ridiculous on Google Ai Ultra.

• You can only have 10 actions scheduled at the same time. Gemini has only 10 locations for planned actions, although they can be unique or recurrent.

• You can use your location for an action, but you cannot change it. Gemini takes care of recurrent planned actions that are based on the location, such as “every morning, recommends coffee near me.” The only team is that the location of this action will use the same location you have used when you have created the action. It will not be updated on the basis of where you are.

Once you have planned an action, you can see it and all your other actions recorded by pressing your profile icon in the Gemini application or by heading to the web settings and selecting “planned actions”. You cannot do much here other than taking a break or deleting the activity, but if you want to cancel the instructions, you have the option.

Get a summary of your email every day

I admit, when I hear the example of the use of the AI ​​action of “Get a summary of your email!” I become skeptical. Is it really more effective to ask a chatbot to summarize your emails than to scan them yourself? Well, it’s if you just have to ask for once. Ask Gemini something like “give me a summary of my new non-read emails every morning” and you will get a notification every day.

You can further refine this approach by giving specific instructions for Gemini for your needs. For example, you can ask Gemini to highlight all your boss’s emails or filter promotional emails, sales or newsletters.

Keep in mind that this technique has the same error rate as anything else in Gemini (or any chatbot for that matter). It is practical to have a quick overview of the messages awaiting you, but it’s probably a good idea to take a look at your reception box before telling your boss that you have not received this email.

Create weekly routes according to calendar events

Via the connection of the workspace, you can ask the gemini to give you an overview of all your events throughout the week that are in your calendar. Since Gemini can also question Google Maps, you can even ask complex questions as far as your doctor’s appointment is from your home.

Again, the power of this technique is available in how you can ask Gemini specific information or how to format the route it presents. For example, one day when I had two meetings in different parts of the city, I asked Gemini how long I would spend driving. He was able to add the various estimated driving deadlines and give me a large total.

He can take a little finagling to get the right wording. It took a few tests before explicitly set in Gemini to “assume that I am starting and end my day at home”, but once I found an invite that worked, the planned action meant that I only had to write it once.

Plan requests for specific events

Sometimes you know of the information you want to have, but it does not yet exist. For example, say that you want to know who won the Oscars, but don’t plan to watch the show. You can plan a request in advance and, once the big day arrives, Gemini will summarize the information for you.

Personally, I find it a little more useful for things where research is more complex than simple “who won?” For example, Death Stranding 2 will come out very soon. And although nothing can prevent me from playing it myself, I would always like to read a selection of criticism.

So I have a prompt prompt next week to bring me a selection of criticism from some of my favorite sites. I do not personally need a generic summary (I read humans’ writing for a reason), but you could ask geminum questions on a particular subject, like what criticisms think of the game mechanisms, or how much they found game mechanics.

In the future, do more with agent mode

For the moment, there are already some interesting uses for this feature, but it should be mentioned that Google has done much more. As part of His agent mode demoThe company has shown an example of a Gemini request to find new apartments every week and send a user summary.

This type of task requires much more autonomy than the public version of Gemini is currently capable, but it emphasizes how planned actions can become in the future. We had to assess to what extent the agent mode is well done with complex tasks, but for the moment, Gemini is capable of simple internet queries, of gathering of your emails and your calendar, and execution a few Complex planning.