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Tuesday Memo 14: Gemini is now one shortcut away on your PC

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Tuesday Memo · 22 September 2026 · Issue 14

Gemini is now one shortcut away on your PC

What is inside: Gemini on Windows, a prompt that checks your tone before you hit send, and a Copilot change you can leave alone.

Most Ai habits stall at the same step: open the browser, find the tab, sign in, paste, lose your place.

The tool is fine. Getting to it is the chore, and for Windows users that chore just got shorter.

One thing worth your time

A shortcut to Gemini

Google has released a Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11. Press Alt + Space from anywhere and Gemini opens over whatever you are working on. Check a fact, draft a reply, then get back to it.

It works with an ordinary personal Google account. Connect Gmail and Google Drive and it can summarise your documents too. Some extras need a paid Google subscription. Mac users get the same trick with Option + Space.

→ Download it from Google

One prompt to try

Read it before they do

The emails that cause trouble are rarely wrong. They are just a little sharp, written in a hurry at the end of a long day. Paste one in before it goes.

Read the email below before I send it. Do not rewrite it.
It is going to: [WHO THEY ARE AND HOW WELL I KNOW THEM].
What I need them to do: [THE ONE THING I WANT FROM THEM].
Point out any line that sounds curt, vague or passive-aggressive, and suggest a softer version of just that line.
Email: [PASTE YOUR EMAIL]

Try it on the next email you are tempted to fire off. Alt + Space works well for this.

One thing to ignore

The Copilot app getting a new name and icon

Microsoft is folding its two Copilot apps into one, called Microsoft Copilot. If it is on your PC or phone, the name and icon will change, and the how-to-switch articles will follow.

Here is Microsoft’s own answer on whether you need to prepare: “No. Most updates will happen automatically.” Your chat history comes with you, and work and personal accounts stay separate. On a phone you may need to download the updated app. That is the whole job.

Learn one shortcut this week. Let the icon sort itself out.

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