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Organizer

This panel offers one-click access to your Lists (“Lists”) and your
Reminders (Figure 5-4). It also offers + buttons that let you create a new list
or reminder manually (Figure 5-11, left). And it’s where you can find any

automatic reminders that Cortana has generated from the promises you
make by email (see the box below).

Manage Skills

This tab is filled with micro-panels, each representing a Skill that Cortana
can perform for you (Figure 5-11, right). You’ll find these categories:

Skills you’ve enabled. At the top, you’ll find any non-Microsoft
Skills you’ve installed, as described on “Skills: Fitbit, Domino’s,
Nest…”.

Connections. These buttons let you set up your music services
(Figure 5-8), connected home gadgets (“Skills: Fitbit, Domino’s,

Nest…”), and connected services (which mostly means your email
accounts). See Figure 5-11, inset.

Productivity. Each tile lets you tinker with the settings Cortana
needs to answer queries about that topic. For example, “Calendar
& reminders” lets you specify categories of things Cortana knows
about (“Upcoming meetings,” “Calendar timeline,” and so on).

“Commute & traffic” is where you indicate whether you drive to
work or take public transit, and where you request notifications

when it’s time to start your travel to home, work, or a meeting.

Stay up to date. These tiles prepare Cortana for answering

questions about Finance (What stocks do you follow?), Flights
(What flight updates do you want?), News (What news topics do
you follow?), Packages (What tracking numbers are you
following?), Sports (What teams?), Weather (What cities?), and so

on.