What can I say to Viola?

Music, everywhere

Play jazz everywhere

Multi-room

Play my focus playlist in the office only

Single room

Next track

Anywhere

Pause when my meeting starts at 2

Calendar-aware

Turn down the living room, leave the kitchen alone

Per-room volume

Play the song Sarah was humming this morning

Memory-aware

Switch from YouTube to Spotify for this track

Provider swap

Find the studio version, not the live one

Query refinement

Email and calendar, actually handled

Go through my emails and tell me if anything needs me today

Morning triage

Reply to Sarah that I'll be ten minutes late and suggest the cafe instead

Drafted + sent

Cancel my 2pm, move it to Thursday afternoon, and email them about it

One sentence, whole task

Find the email with the IRS PIN and read it to me

Search + read

Mark anything from my landlord as high priority

Rule creation

What's my day look like tomorrow?

Daily briefing

Find a 30-minute slot this week that works for Sarah and me

Free/busy across accounts

Unsubscribe me from these three newsletters

Multi-step

Phone — she picks up for you

Screen my calls while I'm in this meeting. Only interrupt if it's Sarah

Inbound rules

Call the pediatrician and reschedule Thursday to any afternoon next week

Outbound with phone-tree

Call the three top-rated plumbers, ask for Saturday morning availability

Comparison shopping

Send this incoming call to voicemail unless it's Mom

Selective screening

Record my next call with my landlord and transcribe it

With consent disclosure

Call the restaurant and confirm our 7pm for 4

Reservation confirm

Cancel the warranty call I got this morning

Ignore + block

Read me voicemails from today

Transcripts

Web, research, and commerce

Find the cheapest flight from MKE to LAX around the 14th

Web search + compare

Order a 6-pack of dishwasher pods from wherever they're in stock

With Payment-Gate

Pick three restaurants that could take six of us Saturday at 7

Commerce detect + plan

Book the one that has vegetarian options

Follow-up constraint

Read me the first paragraph of that Stratechery article

Web read

Summarize the comments on that Hacker News thread

Structured reading

Smart home (via Home Assistant)

Dim the living room to 40%

Lighting

Good morning, Viola

Scene activation

Is the garage door still open?

State query

Turn on the kettle and start a 4 minute timer

Multi-device

Set the nursery to bedtime mode

Scene by name

Timers, reminders, quick info

Set a 10-minute timer for the eggs

Named timer

Remind me when the laundry finishes

Label-based reminder

What's the weather this weekend?

Fast answer

How far is it to Milwaukee airport?

Quick info

House, not kitchen — multi-user

Use my playlists, not my partner's

Per-user identity

Kids, your timer is up

Target a user

Send this on my work account, not my personal one

Account selection

Remember this only on my phone, not the house

Memory scope

Getting out of trouble

Never mind

Cancel

Stop, different instructions

Redirect

Undo that last thing

Reversal

Explain what you just did

Transparency