[runsfromfire]

personally, i’d love this, as long as i know everything is staying local and not being sold/shared for a profit.

i regularly find myself thinking things like “what movie was i talking about with that guy in the gym?” or “what did i tell my wife we needed to get at the drug store?”

while i have gotten into a habit of keeping a long running note in my phone, there are still lots of blind spots in my memory that leave these fragmented mini-mysteries. having a machine that i could ask “what was that song playing in the supermarket i wanted to download?” and get a useful answer would be a huge boon in my life, if only to quiet the anxiety of leaving these threads hanging in my mind.

[julianeon]

Fwiw, “what did i tell my wife we needed to get at the drug store?” is actually our household's main use case for Amazon Alexa.

Granted, you have to be home for that, but "Alexa add pickles to the shopping list" is something we're all accustomed to saying now, to the device in the kitchen. Then whoever does the shopping checks that list whenever they go out.