As shown above, route #1 is my usual route to office. I take a right at the junction indicated in red. However, its a big junction and the green light is on only for 30 seconds in the direction I need to go; and the waiting time is around 180 seconds. In Delhi heat, with a black helmet on my head, this gets highly uncomfortable.

However, I realized that there is a smarter route (#2) where I don’t stop at this junction and instead take the flyover, go for 500 m ahead and take a U turn and then a left (as indicated in green) to reach my destination. This way, although longer distance-wise (one extra kilometer doesn’t really matter), I reach my destination quicker and more importantly, I don’t have to stop my bike at all.

Google Now, I want you to be this intelligent and suggest me Route #2 as an option as well.

#2 Weather Forecast

You give me details about temperature, wind speed, precipitation, humidity, hourly forecast, weekly forecast etc. Great.

You show me all these details for Delhi-NCR if I am in Delhi. Works. But what works better? I don’t know the technicalities of this but if you can show me the weather forecast for Greater Kailash II, which is where I stay, it would be more helpful. Because Delhi-NCR is a huge city and weather at one end may not be the same as the weather at the other end (Yes, it can be sunny in Gurgaon and raining in Noida. Sigh.) and wrong info is worse than no info.

#3 Weather + Traffic

Mix these two to tell me when exactly should I start to office, which route to take so as to minimize the time to reach and maximize the comfort. For instance, I commute by bike and I don’t mind riding in light drizzle but I do mind to drive under hot sun wearing a helmet. I don’t want my head to boil.

#4 Flight Tickets

You show me these nice little cards whenever I book tickets and also remind me a few hours before the flight with the updated timings. That’s sweet. What more can you do?

Show me the flight ticket please :) It’s that document that I show to the security outside the airport which is what I actually want to use. I always find it painful to open Gmail, search for the ticket, download it and then show it, that too in 3G speed on a mediocre phone processor which is often unreliable.

You have access to my email. Just pull this ticket and place it on one slide on my home screen 3 hrs before my flight time, will you? Thanks :)

#5 Movie Tickets

Same as above.

#6 Booking a Cab

Whenever I travel by flight, I will most likely book a cab from airport. If I did that a couple of times, why don’t you show me an alert the next time I land at a new city?

As you detect my location at a new airport, push me this notification: “Hey Ravi, seems like you landed in New Delhi. Need a Cab?” I would be more than happy to say “yes” instead of opening and searching for Ola/Uber myself.

Essentially, if you learn that I stay in New Delhi and lets say I booked a hotel and return flight to Pune 3 weeks down the line, as soon as I land in Pune, show me available cabs to the hotel I booked and automatically set the destination. Be intelligent.

#7 Be my Travel Guide

You can keep detecting my location and if I am at any tourist place, be my travel guide there. I get irritated by the so-called tourist guides bombarding all over me to hire them. I don’t actually need them. I want to explore the place on my own and would love to get little more interesting info from a friend like you. I guess you can easily do that, can’t you?

#8 Parse my SMSes and more Email

SMSes are becoming obsolete. I stopped reading my SMSes long time back. Neither do I read the update emails since Google divided my emails into those categories. Can you also parse my SMSes and filter out what I really need and show it as an actionable card? because some of my SMSes I know are really important which I keep missing.