Every day after I wake up and make some tea, I go back to bed and answer emails, texts, and generally give myself 20-30 minutes to play some games before diving into the day’s activities. While I don’t like to spend a lot of time on my phone in the first place, some days I’m more busy than others. That is, until one day Twins It appeared in my daily brief information notifications.
Now, I’m not the biggest fan of AI summaries or data encapsulation. Gemini and other AI agents are cool, but they’re so wrong that it makes me want to ignore their existence at all. But the Gemini Daily Brief was surprisingly different, and that’s because of how Google presents calendar entries, emails, and other tasks in an incredibly efficient way.
The Daily Brief is one of Google’s latest experiments to make its users more comfortable using Gemini regularly, and if future attempts are this well thought out, my opinion and use of Gemini will change in a big way. It’s also a great way for the company to make its paid Gemini services feel more valuable, since the Daily Brief is currently only available to people with a Google AI Plus, Pro, or Ultra subscription.
What makes Gemini Daily Brief special?
Samsung and Google have both experimented with “daily briefing”-style apps on their phones over the past two years. Samsung Now in Brieffor example, the Samsung Health app, your calendar, Digital Health, etc. from sources on your phone, such as While these are all good, I’ve never found it useful to put these resources together. Even Google Got rid of the Daily Hub after poor user feedback, and it looks like the company has taken everything it learned from those mediocre attempts and turned it into something more useful with the Gemini Daily Brief.
Meanwhile, Google’s latest Gemini updates have largely revolved around organizing the vast amount of personal data you already have stored on the company’s servers. From email to to-do lists, chats, documents, photos and searches, most of us rely on Google for a significant portion of our Internet usage, so it makes sense that the company’s personal AI assistant (Gemini) could tap into those sources to deliver a more personal Internet.
So while my Daily Brief might show me my latest emails, most recently published articles, and YouTube videos, as well as actionable information for each of these tasks, yours will likely look a little different. Google provides this list as a few examples:
- For students: Manage class schedules, organize study plans and track applications.
- For entrepreneurs: Post actionable customer emails and update task reminders.
- For parents: Manage school communications, track family milestones, and manage homework.
- For job seekers: Act quickly on employer inquiries, prepare for interviews and monitor application statuses.
This deeply personal, customizable nature feels like something Gemini understands you and your needs. The most impressive part is that I didn’t have to configure anything to even customize my Daily Brief. It just came out, and for the first time I felt that Gemini was simply more ChatGPT emergency clone.
As I mentioned earlier, the Daily Brief is only available to paid Google AI subscribers. In addition, you need to activate Personal Intelligence, then connect the Twins Google Workspace and also enable Gemini Memory.
How does the Gemini Daily Brief work?
Each day, the Gemini Daily Brief will generate a notification in the morning that you can click to download the report. The Daily Brief is technically “just” a Gemini chat, not a separate app or email, but it can be accessed anytime within the Gemini app. Here’s how to see it manually:
1. Open the Gemini app on your phone. There should be an icon in the app drawer.
2. In the Gemini app, tap the hamburger menu in the upper-left corner, then tap Daily Brief.
It’s surprisingly simple to find, and the cool thing is that you can take more action on each bullet point that the Daily Brief creates.
Click the three-dot menu below each item to display additional actions. You can mark each task as complete (if applicable) or start a conversation with Gemini about that particular item. This section also shows the source of each item, so you can figure out where an odd item came from.
Many elements have additional actions, usually indicated by a contextual button at the end of the element. For example, you may have an upcoming meeting about an important product update, and Gemini may suggest brainstorming presentation ideas. Tapping this button will usually create a new conversation with a list of actionable items, including several sections with different ideas.
The bottom of this conversation lets you split specific ideas into another new conversation, export the entire conversation to a Google Doc, compose it in Gmail, and more. gives the opportunity.
You can also use the buttons below to provide feedback that will improve future conversations and ideas from Gemini. If that’s more convenient, you can also tap the speaker button below the conversation to have Gemini read a list of all the ideas.
I’ve had a lot of success with the Gemini Daily Brief making me feel more organized at the start of my day, and I love how easy it is to not only look at the report at any time, but to find out more about specific items when I need it. Give it a try! I bet you will love it too.
