When I first used Cortana as part of Windows 10 I was quite disappointed when I found out it lacked quick commands like this. Sure it has some understanding of what is written such as "remind me to call Jim at 2pm" but it is very limited.

I was hoping I would be able to things like the following -

  * backup Fizz Buzz project (and have it intelligently backup the Fizz Buss Visual Studio project to a default location)

  * open Fizz Buzz issue 131 (and have it open a browser to the github issue tracker to the correct issue #)

  * email the Fizz Buzz project plan to Jim (you can *kind of* do this but it hardly ever works as you would want)

  * open Fizz Buzz todo.txt when I next login

  * copy the Fizz Buzz project plan to my Dropbox projects folder

You know things that I will otherwise need to open the command prompt for or do some mundane UI task. Sure some of these things will require applications have such support but from what I can tell Cortana offers no real way to do this other than integrating with the Windows search service.

Considering most (all?) of these things could be done with PowerShell cmdlets it is annoying there is no way to script Cortana via PowerShell in such a way.

Maybe one day.