The latest pivot, following roughly 40 gazillion previous pivots, is shifting the underlying mechanism for reminders away from the not-long-for-this-world Google Assistant system and instead into Google Tasks — which exists somewhat awkwardly alongside Google Keep, despite both services offering ways to create lists and organize tasks. (Ah, crap — Google’s gonna kill one of those things off eventually, too, isn’t it?!)
As part of that progression, the company’s migrating any reminders set within Keep to Tasks. You’ll still be able to create reminders for notes in Keep, but such reminders will actually be stored in Tasks — and synced over to Calendar, too, from there — with a link to the original Keep note as part of the reminder.
And that means the helpful but unfortunately now-Keep-centric option to create a reminder around a physical location will be going away entirely, since Tasks for some reason doesn’t support that ability.
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