In the early days, it seems like every Google product was a completely separate product made by separate teams that did not speak to each other. However, over the recent years, Google’s massive portfolio of web, mobile, and wearable products have been integrating more and more.

Unfortunately, there are still some areas that do not integrate and they really stick out like a sore thumb. One such area is in reminders.

With the launches of products like Google Now and Inbox by Gmail, reminders have become an important feature across the board.

You can use voice commands to speak to your Android phone or Android Wear watch, and it can set a reminder for you. You can say “Ok Google, remind me to take out the trash tonight” and it will set a reminder. One really nice feature is that it shows up both in Google Now and Inbox by Gmail at the correct time.

However, here are some issues.

Dismissing a reminder in Google Now does not mark it as done in Inbox

Perhaps it simple needs a better interface with some action buttons to mark as “Done” as opposed to simply dismissing the card which would not mark it as “Done.”

Strange Triangle of Google Reminder Apps

Google Now shows Google Now reminders and Google Keep reminders

shows Google Now reminders and Google Keep reminders Google Inbox shows Google Inbox reminders and Google Now reminders

shows Google Inbox reminders and Google Now reminders Google Keep only shows Google Keep Reminders

It’s quite odd that Google hasn’t set all 3 of these apps to show the reminders from the other apps. Why aren’t reminders unified across them?

I wonder what Google’s plans are for Google Keep. After trying to use, it I stopped because it really didn’t seem to serve a purpose for me. It was also frustrating that Google Keep reminders were limited to just Google Keep.

I wonder if they haven’t integrated Google Keep reminders because they might be planning on shutting it down or rolling it into one of the other Google products. It would be really nice to see Google Keep merged into Inbox by Gmail. I could see that as being much more useful rather than as a separate standalone app.

What do you think?

Am I missing anything? Do you think that this lack of integration was done on purpose?