In setting up an Echo Show for a person struggling with early onset dementia, I've been frustrated by the fact that the "Remember This" invocation seems to be a thing of Echo's past and only available in some poorly-developed skills. So in lieu of an easy-to-implement Remember this-type function, I started using the sticky-notes widget that, at first, worked pretty well. For example when I asked Alexa to create a note saying “my car keys are in the top drawer” that note was created and by default pinned to the Home screen. When I asked “Alexa, where are my car keys?” she would reply something to the effect of “I found a note that says your car keys are in the top drawer”. But now when I ask “Alexa, where are my car keys?” she just goes off-topic and says she could not find anything “called car keys” and prompts me to purchase a tile tracker. Same thing with “Alexa, create a note that says Jane’s favorite color is yellow”. When I ask “Alexa, what is Jane’s favorite color?” she only response with her own favorite color which she says is ultraviolet…yeah Alexa, very funny.
Why am I having so much trouble simply having Alexa remember a few things?
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