Stuff Genie is a voice assistant that can help you remember the things you need before you leave the house in the morning. It is built on Amazon's Alexa platform and can be accessed from any Alexa enabled device.
Stuff Genie can store a list of the items for every day of the week. She can also keep track of different lists for each member of the family.
Stuff Genie is a free to use service. We created the platform to help our own children remember the things they need to take to school every day as a voice replacement for the list we keep on the fridge. It's more fun and engaging and children can easily add, remove and update the list when it changes. It's free, because we want to demonstrate some useful applications to voice interfaces...and to be honest, we wanted to demonstrate some of our skills developing for voice.
Well, we wanted to call her Genie (after the genie in the bottle). It rolls off the tongue and is easy to remember, but Alexa skills are not allowed to be called by names that could be confused with members of your household. So, because we still liked Genie, and this Genie helps you remember your stuff, we just slapped the word stuff in front of Genie.
Not the friendliest name, but hopefully still easy to remember!
Stuff Genie is a voice skill that runs on Alexa. To talk to Stuff Genie, you need to enable the skill first. For information on managing skills in Alexa, go to Amazon's help page at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201848700
You can interact with Stuff Genie in single command mode or by opening the skill.
In this mode you can ask Alexa to send Stuff Genie instructions. This is for quick single interactions like when you want to hear your list for the day or just add an item to remember for tomorrow. Here are some examples:
Alexa, ask Stuff Genie what I need tomorrow
Alexa, ask Stuff Genie to add my swimming cap for tomorrow
If you need to make multiple requests, it's easier to open Stuff Genie. To do so you can say:
Alexa, open Stuff Genie
You can add items to any day of the week. For example, to add your physics assignment to Friday you can say the following:
Add my physics assignment to Friday
You can also add items to lists that repeat. For example, to add your locker keys to every weekday, you can say:
Add my locker keys to weekdays
To add your tennis racket to every Tuesday, say:
Add tennis racket to Tuesdays
You can also use words like today or tomorrow:
Remember my phone tomorrow
You can remove items by using the keywords remove or forget. Some examples:
Remove my physics assignment from Friday
Forget my locker keys on weekdays
Remove tennis racket from Tuesdays
Forget about my phone tomorrow
You can also clear your list completely by saying something like:
Clear my list for Mondays
Clear my weekends list
If Stuff Genie is open, you can say:
What do I need?
What's on my list tomorrow?
What's on my list for Friday?
What do I need this weekend?
What do I need on weekdays?
If Stuff Genie isn't open, you can ask Alexa to request the information from Genie:
Alexa, ask Stuff Genie what I need
Alexa, ask Stuff Genie what's on my list tomorrow
Alexa, ask Stuff Genie what's on my list for Friday
Alexa, ask Stuff Genie what do I need this weekend?
Alexa, ask Stuff Genie what do I need on weekdays?
Yes. Open Stuff Genie and say:
Forget me
Stuff Genie was created by one of our team members as a tool to help his children keep track of items they need for school every day. In order to allow mutiple family members to use Stuff Genie on the same Amazon account, she has to ask for a character name to associate your list with.
