HeyJaredTech & Nonsense
Thoughts on cybersecurity, AI, mobile apps, tech, and life outside of tech from a guy who is still fascinated with the idea of a computer in our pockets, and believes that our knowledge is one of our biggest assets in life
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A Few Things: Gemini Notebook’s Weakest Link, Pixel 11 Pro Almost There, ChatGPT’s Heptabase Plugin (opens the original)
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A few things have grabbed my attention over the last few weeks in the general tech space. A couple of Google and Android related things and an AI + notes related thing. I’ll start with the bad, move on the almost good, and finish with a potentially good and useful thing.Gemini Notebook Won’t Share its toysGemini Notebook, formerly know as NotebookLM and Google Notebook, is a great research tool. It gives you much better chances of eliminating AI hallucinations because you choose exactly which so
Heptabase Just Keeps Getting Better (opens the original)
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I wrote about Heptabase back in January, singing its praises and describing it as a learning and research partner, and much more than just a notes app. You could jump over to that post and learn lots of good reasons to use Heptabase for those purposes. This post is all about how much Heptabase has improved in just these 9 months, how many great new features it has added, and how frequently it gets updated,How often does it get updated? Very often. I haven’t tracked this closely or journaled it b
Rambler is the Best and Worst AI Feature on the Pixel 11 Pro (opens the original)
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Rambler is like the great first few words in a Charles Dickens novel (A Tale of Two Cities) - “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. And right now it’s mostly the worst of times. What is Rambler?Rambler is officially Gemini Intelligence Rambler. It’s an upgraded, AI-powered voice-to-text feature, powered by Gemini. At its best it’s voice-to-text leveled up to a very impressive degree. It corrects your little ums and ahs and ignores your pauses. If you say something one way and th
Claude’s Daily Brief Sets the Bar (opens the original)
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Versions of a daily brief have been around for quite a few years now - via smartphones and their personal assistant features. In the last couple of years these have been powered by AI apps, allegedly making them far more useful. For me at least, they still don’t offer much. Most of what they offer are things I either don’t need or that I’m not super interested in.I don’t allow any of them access to my work calendar or anything specific to the the organization I work for, and I’m not enough of a
Android Cross Apps Actions (opens the original)
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Cross apps actions have been a shiny thing on the horizon for any of us who are looking forward to moving beyond simple Google Assistant type actions on Android phones for a good little while now. What are cross apps actions?At a basic level cross-apps actions are when we ask Gemini to interact with multiple tools or system functions to carry out a task for us. When they fulfill their promise they’ll be a significant step up from Google Assistant and Siri searching flight information and booking
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