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Re:Amazon Echo Dot by krinchan on Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:26PM (#11220168)
And copy and paste. People seem to always forget the power of it. It's the GUI equivalent of "Search for that on Google" or "Now, SSH to this IP I found digging through AWS." Copy and pasting of text from application to application is the clunky Unix Pipe. It's universal and deeply important.

Taking sections of the last response, or hell, even having every response essentially be wrapped up in some sort of object you can reference in your next query to the interface is what all of these lack.

Even Androids "Search this artist" doesn't quite get there. The lack of context between queries is what murders Siri for me. That and her seemingly random selection of what goes to Google and what goes to Wolphram Alpha. Sometimes even the "wolfram" verb prepended to a query just doesn't go to wolfram no matter what.

Re:Amazon Echo Dot by cubano on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:28PM (#11220562)
I've often postulated that copy and paste is perhaps the biggest productivity enhancement in the history of computing.
Re:Amazon Echo Dot by webXL on Thursday March 03, 2016 @05:46PM (#11220665)
I know some software maintainers who might disagree. But I like PopClip (https://pilotmoon.com/popclip/) as an enhancement on top of that one.
Re:Amazon Echo Dot by chris_st on Thursday March 03, 2016 @06:22PM (#11220847)
I second PopClip as a fantastic product, incredibly useful. Their DropShelf[0] tool is also useful, but not nearly as much as PopClip. But definitely worth the money.

0: https://pilotmoon.com/dropshelf/

Re:Amazon Echo Dot by yoodenvranx on Thursday March 03, 2016 @08:52PM (#11221521)
I use KDE Connect to enable seamless copy and paste between my PC and my phones. It's the single best thing I ever installed in the last 1 or 2 years.