The Google Assistant can preheat your smart oven, highlight your upcoming appointments, and shuffle through your favorite tunes. One of its most convenient features, though, is a shopping list accessible via voice (try saying, “OK Google, add milk to my shopping list”). The Assistant used to save items on that list in Google Keep, Google’s cross-platform note-taking service, but moved them over to the Google Home and Google Express applications in April 2017. Turns out there’s a way to force the old behavior, though, and it involves “threatening” the Assistant with a playful phrase. Redditor Darklyte on the Google Home subreddit discovered a way to get the Google Assistant to save shopping list items to Keep. Ending any shopping list-related voice command with the phrase, “or else”, performs the action in Keep instead of the Home and Express apps. For example, pulling up the Google Assistant on a phone or tablet and saying, “OK Google, ...