Gemini: Email, Calendar & Organizing

Track where you stored passports, documents and spare keys during a deep clean with Gemini and Find Hub

Android Police writer Akshay Bhalla tends to forget where things are put away, which made the yearly deep clean drag. This year Bhalla used Gemini voice commands to save items to Find Hub's 'Remembered' section as they went: passport, tax documents, birth certificates, spare house and car keys, even a tape measure, each with a photo of where it was stored. Asking Gemini 'Where did I put my passport?' brings back the spot and the picture. The cleaning took two hours instead of a full day, though items have to be updated by hand when moved.

Set up a weekly Gmail clean-up script that protects receipts with Gemini

Andrew Ledet was tired of repeating a two-hour manual inbox clean-up. Working with Gemini, they built a Google Apps Script 'Janitor' that audits top senders, does a dry run, then clears old promotions, social and update emails while skipping anything from themselves, starred, or that looks like a receipt or order. The first run deleted more than 5,000 emails in a few minutes, and it now runs automatically every Monday at 3 a.m.

Stop spam events landing in Google Calendar with Gemini's step-by-step fix

A poster shared the fix Gemini gave them for spam invites showing up in Google Calendar: change 'Add invitations to my calendar' from everyone to only known senders or only after responding, and turn off automatically adding events from Gmail.

Add events from emails, voice notes and ticket screenshots to Google Calendar with Gemini

An Android Police writer says Gemini fixed their main Google Calendar complaint, adding entries by hand. They ask Gemini by voice to schedule calls while out, use it in Gmail to create events from invites, and send it screenshots of concert-ticket presale times to make reminders. They note it doesn't add guests automatically and the Gmail option doesn't always trigger on its own.

Turn a messy weekly brain dump into a Google Calendar import file with Gemini

An Android Police writer plans the week each Sunday by writing out meetings, errands, bills and appointments in plain language and asking Gemini for a CSV to import into Google Calendar. The writer double-checks everything before importing, and says Gemini sometimes outputs plain text instead of a downloadable file, which they save as .csv themselves.

Replace paid reminder and to-do apps with Gemini scheduled actions

An Android Police writer replaced IFTTT, Medisafe and Todoist with Gemini scheduled actions they already had through Google AI Pro: a weekday morning briefing, a Monday news digest, two daily medication reminders and a morning top-three task list. They cancelled about $13 a month in subscriptions, but note Gemini only sends reminders (no dose tracking or interaction warnings) and that they rely on one company for everything, which makes them uneasy.

Load a child's soccer schedule onto the family calendar with 2-hour blocks using Gemini

A parent screenshotted their son's soccer schedule, uploaded it to Gemini, asked it to create events with a 2-hour window and told it which family calendar to use. They say two minutes later every game was on the family calendar, saving about 15 minutes of manual entry.

Turn a school-year calendar into draft Google Calendar events with Gemini

Instead of typing in the kids' school calendar for the next school year, Joshua Kaan gave Gemini the details. Gemini drafted the events and Kaan approved them. The one thing it couldn't do was add other people's email addresses as guests on the events.

Cut 23,000 unread emails to about 8,000 with one Gemini command in Gmail

Faced with more than 23,000 unread emails, David Alonge asked Gemini in Gmail to 'Delete all unread emails from 2009 to 2022.' Within a few minutes the unread count dropped to about 8,000, a job Alonge expected would have taken weeks by hand.