India, March 15 -- We don't even have to make our own lists any more.

Google recently introduced a "Create a list with AI" feature within the Keep app that can do the thinking for you, at least some of the time.

Enter a prompt such as "Classic movies to watch at Christmas" or "suggest gift ideas for a 35-year-old who loves sneakers and football" and the Gemini AI model will populate the list with suggestions. One may not agree with the choices, but they usually make for a useful starting point (and a way to negotiate a glut of choices, or a total dearth of ideas).

Microsoft's OneNote uses the Copilot AI program to do something similar: tell it to draft a plan for a dinner gathering, and a list of to-dos begins to take shape.

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