Alexa & Echo Tricks, Tips, and Common Commands

Commands I often use:

• Shuffle my playlist 'Your Top Songs of 2019' everywhere
• Play Ambient on Amazon Music
• Play Electronic for sleep on Amazon Music
• Play Nils Frahm
• Play Tangerine Dream
• Play the station Number 1 concentration and focus on Pandora
• Play Covered in Writing
• Play Thumbprint Radio on Pandora
• Start Tomato Helper.
  • Then 'Echo Next'!
  • Echo "ask tomato helper for progress.

Productivity tips:

• Fast Company

Favorite Skills

• Retirement Countdown - ”Alexa, ask Retirement Countdown how many days I have left”
• Tomato Helper
• Notify Me

Yoga Poses

There are a bunch of skills that'll give you a yoga class!

How do you get yourself on Alexa?

At the time of writing this, there are 7,900 options to add to your daily flash briefing. You can trigger this by asking Alexa 'What's my flash briefing' or 'What's the news?'

I'm looking into creating a skill that my family can add to their daily briefing.

Alexa Blueprints

Thanks to Alexa Blueprints Start by going to https://blueprints.amazon.com/ and clicking the Skills You’ve Made link at the top of the screen. You’ll then have to log in with your Amazon account details. After doing that, you’ll see fields displaying your name, contact details and address.

Great free alexa apps:

https://invokedapps.com/

I think we've found the perfect child. She does what we ask, never complains, only speaks when spoken to, and we don't have to put her through college. Her name is Alexa. She's the third member of our family. She always knows the weather, is a mathematic wizard (helpful when we need a quick conversion).

OK... so we are learning to speak 'alexa' to get what we want.

Music

Alexa - 'Shuffle My Favorites Playlist' Alexa - Add that song to my favorites

Web pages

Alexa, ask Article Reader to read an article

Radio Stations

Play KCPR

Play KCBX

Common ways we use our Alexa

• Weather
• Math
• Conversions (helpful in the kitchen)
• Timers
• Todos
• Reminders

What else can Alexa do? Here are some videos to check out:

• https://youtu.be/WgWlfckLc-Q
• https://youtu.be/P9PlkRRT-go

https://www.amazon.com/Thomptronics-Notify-Me/dp/B07BB2FYFS/ref=lp142848600111_3?s=digital-skills&ie=UTF8&qid=1584207716&sr=1-3

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