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In a world full of AI assistants and tools that try to make your life easier, Poppy takes a different approach. Rather than requiring your effort up front, Poppy does its best to be proactive – and give you helpful context before you even know you need it.
Highlights
Poppy isn’t a traditional chatbot interface. Instead, you link up all of the things you’d like it to understand about you, such as your email, calendar, location, reminders, health data, and more. Then, in the background, it learns about you, gathers key details, and contextually tries to suggest things to you. That can be via text, a notification, the apps interface, or a widget.
Personally, one of the things I found most helpful was when it alerted me to a flight I had in two weeks. I often don’t find myself thinking much about my travel until just before I’m about to go, but Poppy suggested an itinerary for the trip, giving me ideas on what I should do if I find some spare time. That was nice.
