The company recently sent out an email to its users announcing the service would shut down on Friday, September 12. "When we introduced Reachit, we wanted to give people the convenience of accessing all of their files from one place...we now have new priorities on Smart Devices, and as a result, we will be withdrawing Reachit," Lenovo said in its email. Reachit was first introduced in May 2015 during the Lenovo Tech World conference as a partnership between Lenovo and Microsoft. It then entered a public beta period, but only became available as a mainstream product in early June 2016. The story behind the story: Although Lenovo says Reachit is going away due to a repositioning of priorities, it's likely Cortana was already useful enough without the app. For example, you could ask a Cortana-powered REACHit to help you find the spreadsheet you were editing on Tuesday while at a local cafe.

Lenovo recently released a new combination desktop program/Windows Store app that helps add even more power to Cortana on Windows 10 PCs. Lenovo's Reachit lets you take Cortana into places it's never been before by connecting the digital assistant to your files within the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive. Lenovo released Reachit in beta form in 2015, but now it's available for anyone to use. First, you install the Windows Store version of Reachit. Once you've done that, you'll be prompted to install a desktop program as well.

How much time do you waste looking for that one file, email or attachment? Maybe you remember when you last opened it, who you were with or where you worked on it, but not much else? Ask for what you want – by typing or speaking out loud – using natural language. REACHit for Cortana will find your photos, documents, and emails faster than you can, and with a lot less stress. We'd like to thank our Beta testers for helping make our app great!