Apple | productivity with Apple’s Reminders App (iOS & MacOS)

Allan
2 min readSep 17, 2021
Screengrab of my Reminders App on MacOS — 11:36, Friday 17 September 2021

Historically I have been a huge fan of pen and paper, but recently moved away from that to use a reMarkable 2 ink-tablet (read more here). With the shift to reMarkable I struggled to maintain a proper ink-tablet ToDo List.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been forcing myself to use Apple’s inbuilt Reminders app to manage my personal, work and side-hustle life. So far, I’m pleasantly surprised.

Tips and Tricks (So far…)

  1. Use Siri as much as possible. “Siri, remind me to do [XXX] at 1600 on Friday.” leads to a timed Reminder with an automatic alert. Awesome.
  2. If typing, use “…at 1600” and Siri’s built in intelligence suggests setting the alert

3. I’m new to this, but Reminders has a tagging function. Use # to start a tag that will label your reminders neatly. Seems to work if I tag #linkedin for LinkedIn post ideas.

FYI - I use a Mac Mini, an iPhone 11 and a pair of second generation AirPods for most things.

Being able to ask Siri to add reminders whether I’m on my iPhone or Mac Mini is ace; and the built in timing of Reminders has led to a huge improvement in my ToDo List management.

“Siri, remind me to update my Reminders article six months from now”

See how I’m getting on here.

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Allan

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