@VanGoghsDog Yes, it’s most useful if you have an Android phone and already use Google products, like Gmail and Google calendar. Even if you don’t, it can be used to do things like make shopping lists verbally (you can add items whenever you think of them) and read you the news headlines. You may be able to make to-do lists now too, though I’m not sure. I can send you a link, if you like?
Oh, I do have an Android phone, and using Gmail is compulsory on it I think (it's not my main email but it does seem to collect them all within Gmail anyway). I don't use the calendar (I doubt use any calendar, I just remember dates and times in my head, I've never used one). I use Chrome on the laptop and PC.
But the reason she can't do anything is, I think, because I don't have anything for her to do. She doesn't seem to connect to the internet, so I can't ask her to convert grammes to ounces etc. She will set a timer which is handy and will play the radio.
The only reason she plays Terry Wogan's Floral Dance is because that's the only music I have in Google Play. All my music is in Amazon and Google doesn't seem to want to connect to that, and I can't even cast onto it from Amazon.
I don't really need shopping lists, I have never used one, I can remember what I need to buy.
I should probably looking into trying to get it to do more things though.