Cortana is one of the most amazing features of Windows 10 and one of the reasons why some users choose to use Windows 10. She is your virtual personal assistant, and in many ways she can help you become more productive: she can look for you, remember things, open up apps, take notes, and even tell you jokes or playing your songs.
Cortana can help you in many ways so you become more productive and keep informed of your interests. She can even be funny when you are bored and want to laugh a bit. Microsoft has been careful to program it so that it has multiple responses for some questions. Thus, it will not become embarrassing even if you repeat the same question.
First of all, you will have to go through Cortana’s first setup steps. It’s a quick and easy process. We covered all the details in this article. You will have to go through an initial configuration process and learn how to interact with it.
In the taskbar, click on the “Type here to Search” field. You find it to the right of the Start button.
This action makes Cortana open a popup box and say “Hi! I’m Cortana. I’m here to help.” Under this welcome message, you might also see some ideas and tips on what the Cortana can do for you.
To get Cortana to be her best version, you can give her details about you. She does not actively ask for this information, so it is entirely your choice if you want to let her know you better.
To do this, click the “Cortana can do much more …” button at the bottom of the popup box.
Then she tells you that Cortana needs information to help you not be late, remember important things, and other things like that. In order to get them, she needs access to your account to personalize your experience. In other words, Cortana can collect and use your search history, application usage, speech habits, and other information to make your personal experience more enjoyable. If you want everything she can offer, click Personalize.
Maybe it will look amazingly fast, but that’s all you have to do to use Cortana on a Windows 10 device. Now you can use it, or you can customize it and its skills.
If you do not have the time or the patience to read everything I’ve published, you should know that to interact with Cortana, you can tap into her search field or talk to her using the microphone button on the right side of the search field.
Are you impatient to work with Cortana as your virtual assistant?
As you have seen, the first steps in customizing Cortana, your virtual assistant, are few and easy to follow. As soon as you learn, Cortana can do many things for you, and it can help you become more productive.