Google AI Asssisted Note Taking gets Limited Launch

Google AI Asssisted Note Taking gets Limited Launch in Tech Crunch

Google is making its “AI notebook for everyone” available to a select few and renaming it from Project Tailwind to NotebookLM. If you struggle to make sense of the pile of information in your Google Drive, a light coating of AI could be just the thing.

The project was announced at I/O in May as a way for students to organize the various lecture notes and other documents they accumulate during coursework.

Unlike a generic chatbot that draws on a vast corpus of largely unrelated information, NotebookLM restricts (or attempts to restrict) itself to analyzing and answering questions about the documents it is fed. It will still draw on its broader knowledge if you require it to, but the general idea is that its first resort is to the information it has most recently been exposed to.

If you’re taking a class on Lord Byron and ask it what the significance was of his dying in Greece rather than England, it will first consult your notes and any supporting documents, and report from those. But if you don’t happen to have written down the date and location of his death (April 19, 1824, in Missolonghi, Greece), it can still fetch that information from elsewhere. (At least, this is how I understand the system to work in a general sense.)  ... ' 

Notable Extensions to Google Assistant: Photos and Notes

Notable the ability to link to note taking capabilities, like Google Keep.  Searching specifics in podcasts also very useful for business application support.    Assistant has also become very good a working with display of photos.  Will take a look.

Google Assistant can now share photos, search podcasts, and make notes with third-party apps  By Khari Johnson in Venturebeat

Google Assistant on smartphones, smart displays, and smart speakers is getting a series of upgrades today, like the ability to create notes and lists with third-party apps and search podcasts by topic.

Google Assistant on smartphones is also gaining the ability to share photos with your voice so you can say “Hey Google, show me photos from last weekend.” Once Google Photos results appear on your screen, you can choose the photos you want to send and tell Google Assistant to send them to one of your contacts. Last fall, Google Nest smart displays got the ability to use voice alone to share photos that appear on the device’s digital photo frame or in voice search results after users say things like “Hey Google, show me my photos from San Diego.”   ...." 

Google Keep and AI

Makes sense to integrate the idea of note taking and reminding with bot-like AI.    An idea we tested.  Have been a user of Evernote for some time and they recently added an intelligence method which finds articles related to what you are writing.    Then I was introduced to Google Keep recently, and found it interesting.    Intrigued that Google might integrate more meaningful AI into the mix.    The notion that it will be integrated into something like Google Home is also fascinating.  I can't say that the header statement below is right yet,  but look forward to further examination.

Why you should start using Google Keep right away
Artificial intelligence is transforming Google's yellow sticky note app into an indispensable peripheral to your own mind.  .... " 

Google Keep vs Evernote

A comparison of newly available Google Keep, and well known note taking system Evernote.  Have used Evernote for years. In recent weeks I have been helping a client understand the issues behind mobile information gathering and sharing.   Anything with the Google clout and integration with other resources behind it is important.  In particular, the integration of visualization capabilities like image indexing, concept and process mapping are necessary.  Also the capability to easily sync in the Cloud.  Look forward to a closer view.