Contextually-appropriate task reminders

摘要

A computing device learns over time how to identify task reminders that are most likely to be helpful to a user in different contexts. The task reminders can remind the user of activities that the user needs to do. The computing device displays a graphical user interface (GUI) that contains the task reminders identified as being most likely to be helpful to the user in the user's current context. The computing device updates the task reminders in the GUI as the user's context changes. In this way, the computing device can present task reminders that are likely to be currently helpful to the user while suppressing task reminders that are less likely to be helpful to the user at the current time.

主权项

1. A method for providing contextually-appropriate task reminders, the method comprising:
receiving a selection of a task source element; generating a task reminder based on the task source element; learning, by a computing device, over time how to identify contextually-appropriate task reminders in different contexts; displaying a graphical user interface on a display unit, the graphical user interface containing a reminder area and an activity area; as the task source element changes, updating the reminder area to generate, update or delete task reminders such that the task reminders are contextually-appropriate; and as a current context changes, updating the reminder area such that the reminder area contains the task reminders that are contextually-appropriate in the current context.