Schedule Meetings in Gmail with Gemini AI
▼ Summary
– Gmail is introducing “Help Me Schedule,” a Gemini AI-powered feature that identifies when users want to schedule meetings in emails and suggests available times for recipients.
– The feature works by displaying a “Help Me Schedule” button in the toolbar while typing emails, which activates AI to find meeting times based on message context and calendar availability.
– Upon activation, it generates an in-line meeting widget in the message, allowing recipients to select a time that automatically schedules the meeting for both parties.
– At launch, the feature will not support scheduling meetings with groups of more than one invitee.
– This release is part of Google’s broader expansion of Gemini AI across its products, including image and video models in Photos and YouTube, and AI features in Google Home.
Scheduling meetings often feels like a major productivity drain, but a new Gmail feature aims to reclaim some of that lost time. Google has introduced “Help Me Schedule” in Gmail, which uses Gemini AI to detect when you’re trying to arrange a meeting directly within your email composition. Once it recognizes your intent, the tool presents available time slots for the recipient to choose from, streamlining the entire process.
This functionality operates similarly to Magic Cue on recent Pixel smartphones. As you draft an email mentioning a meeting, a “Help Me Schedule” button appears in the toolbar. Tapping this activates Google’s AI, which scans your calendar and interprets the email context to propose suitable meeting times. The system ensures suggestions align with your existing commitments and the specifics mentioned in your message.
After you select the Help Me Schedule option, an interactive meeting widget embeds directly into your email. The person receiving your message can then pick their preferred time from the provided options. With one click from them, the meeting automatically gets added to both calendars. Currently, this feature is designed for one-on-one meetings and will not support scheduling with multiple participants at its initial release.
Google continues its rapid integration of Gemini AI across various services and applications. Alongside this scheduling tool, the company is deploying its nano banana image model to several products and integrating the Veo video model into Google Photos and YouTube. Additionally, Gemini has started appearing in Google Home, delivering AI-powered notifications and activity summaries to users.
(Source: Ars Technica)
