Just How Handy Is Amazon’s Echo?

I know what you’re thinking…how useful is this little gadget? It’s basically just another voice-activated doohickey to clutter up your bookshelf and therefore your life, right?

Not so fast. Echo not only comes with built-in functionalities that are intended to make life easier for the user, but also comes with additional features that can help you streamline your home, your workspace, and your life. Sure, it comes across as just another Amazon product designed to help you instantly buy more products from Amazon, but if you play your cards right–and really make friends with it–it has a lot of potential.

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The best feature? Echo's ability to take notes for you. With the shopping list, to do list, and other types of organizational tools, you can simply tell Echo to add bananas to your shopping list, and the items will be added to the list in your phone's Echo app.