New ways to add Reminders in Inbox by Gmail

June 17, 2015

Posted by Dave Orr, Google Research Product Manager



07/11/2016 update - this feature is no longer supported. We apologize for the confusion and continue to look for ways to make Inbox for Gmail more useful.

Last week, Inbox by Gmail opened up and improved many of your favorite features, including two new ways to add Reminders.

First up, when someone emails you a to-do, Inbox can now suggest adding a Reminder so you don’t forget. Here's how it looks if your spouse emails you and asks you to buy milk on the way home:
Digital email inbox display highlighting an inline smart reminder to add a task from a recent message.
To help you add Reminders, the Google Research team used natural language understanding technology to teach Inbox to recognize to-dos in email.
Text parsing visualization mapping natural language categories like trigger, action, task, location, and time across text.
And much like Gmail and Inbox get better when you report spam, your feedback helps improve these suggested Reminders. You can accept or reject them with a single click:
Smartphone email interface viewing a message text with an active smart reminder shortcut option placed above.
The other new way to add Reminders in Inbox is to create Reminders in Google Keep--they will appear in Inbox with a link back to the full note in Google Keep.
Mobile smartphone interface displaying a clean modern email application inbox with an integrated task reminder bar.
Hopefully, this little extra help gets you back to what matters more quickly and easily. Try the new features out, and as always, let us know what you think using the feedback link in the app.
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