Google Adds Gemini-Powered 'Remembered' Tab to Find Hub for Items You Can't Tag

The feature records a location for an object in words rather than by attaching hardware. According to the review, a user can hold the power button to summon Gemini and say, "I put my passport in the top drawer of my dresser." Gemini stores that entry, and it can be retrieved later through Find Hub. The reviewer said the exchange takes a couple of seconds and requires no typing, tagging or separate app.

Voice input is not the only route. The Remembered tab also accepts manual entries, where a user types an item's name, its storage location and any additional notes. The reviewer wrote that manual entry proved faster when organizing a larger number of items, while voice remained convenient for adding one thing at a time.

Entries can also carry a photograph. The reviewer described taking a quick picture of the drawer, cupboard or storage box an item was placed in and attaching it to the record, which he found more useful than a written description when storage arrangements change frequently and a written label becomes ambiguous.

Remembered sits inside Find Hub alongside conventional Bluetooth tracker listings, so users do not need to install another app or recall where the information was saved, the review said.

The reviewer tested the feature with items he regularly mislays: the key to a second car, a camera adaptor, a pair of sunglasses and a daily notebook. He saved each by standing in front of the drawer or cupboard where it was kept, telling Gemini the location, and adding a photo where it helped. Locating them again involved asking Gemini, which named the desk drawer and displayed the stored photograph.

The review states one clear limitation: the whole process is manual, and Remembered is only as useful as the information supplied to it. The reviewer gave the example of putting a passport in a different drawer without telling Gemini, leaving the saved entry out of date.

Much of the appeal rests on objects that do not suit a physical tag. The reviewer said he already uses Bluetooth trackers on his keys, wallet and bags, but that a second category of belongings, such as a passport needed only a few times a year, does not justify one. Those items tend to be placed somewhere considered safe and then forgotten until a trip prompts a search through drawers and cupboards.