5 Alexa Skills to Enable Today!

Your Amazon Echo might be sitting there with no skills enabled!

All of these Alexa skills have come highly recommended as great ways to get start maximising your experience with your Amazon Echo or Echo Dot.

Without further ado, let’s share those Alexa skills with you:

1. Todoist: Save to-dos hands-free!

This is one of my personal favourites on the Echo. Being able to save to-dos and shopping list items are great for day to day productivity. Whether you are in the kitchen chopping up something, washing up, even watching TV, clipping a task hands-free is very ideal for everyday situations. Well worth it!

Enable Todoist for Alexa: (read more)

2. Hive: Control your smart home

Managing your home using your voice sounds very Iron Man-like. Well, it’s now a reality! Setting up Hive with Alexa will allow you to modify all aspects of your home, everything from the turning the kettle on, switching the light on to changing the temperature. With simple set-up and a new way to control your surrounding you’ll be unstoppable!

Enable Hive for Alexa: (read more)

03. How Many Days: Countdown to important dates

Excited for your birthday a few weeks away?! Alexa won’t let you forget. Ask your Echo device to set-up a date and she’ll keep you posted how many days are left to said event. Whether it’s a holiday, retirement date or even an anniversary date (for the men) Alexa will help you remember.

Enable How Many Days for Alexa: (read more)

04. The Guardian

Love your news in the morning?! The days of reading news on your newspaper or smartphone might be over. Alexa’s “Flash Briefing” is a short 5–10 minute experience every morning to help you catch-up on all the sources you need to know. Connecting news sites is an option, with The Guardian being one of the most successful skills for morning briefings.

Enable The Guardian for Alexa: (read more)

5. Recipedia

Need step by step advice on how to cook the perfect curry? Alexa is here. Recipedia will help to guide you through all of the stages you’ll need to know to make the best of the best for your partner/guest/family or even yourself. Lots of recipes to get started with, from many cultures.

Enable Recipedia for Alexa: (read more)

If you are looking to get started with your Echo, these are all great skills!

If you’re looking to manage emails hands-free, Newton for Alexa is for you. Snooze, read, delete and clear you inbox just with your voice. Enable the skill here!

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