Or simply don’t know how to use it, as it isn’t the most intuitive feature. Namely, that’s the ability to create and set a reminder or Calendar event directly from an Android notification.

Even when developers—including Google—play by the rules of the system, it's easy to create new notification categories to get around the ones a user has silenced.

Smart actions have become a powerful addition as part of Android but they are now expanding with the abiity to set reminders from notifications.

If you'd like custom notifications in any Android OS, we've shown you how to build your own reminder notifications with Tasker, so check that out.

A new feature was discovered hiding in the Android Google Calendar app. The feature allows the user to create customizable birthday reminders. It appears that the feature is still in development ...