Nice add. I implemented this. Agree on routines in Todoist as there was always mental friction for me and, as you mentioned, reminders pop up on watch really well. Then revised “morning” to “AM” and “evening” to “PM”. Visually shorter text and matches the orange /blue flag idea in Todoist (for AM/PM) 😉
Carl, I have enjoyed watching these series and it definitely helped me using the new reminders. I was so happy to see Apple FINALLY updated reminders. Reminders were so bad I had to contact Apple support several times, the main issues was my data wasn’t syncing which was a disaster for me. I still need to “try” and decide on one other system to keep track of everything, from personal, school, my business and miscellaneous. I have used (OneNote , Cozi, & Apple). Finding the “perfect” list to make me happy has been hard! Looking forward to more videos....Great job!! 👏🏽👏🏽
Carl is an INCREDIBLE teacher I have really enjoyed learning from him and his channel if you want to unlock the power of the Apple 🍎 Ecosystem then congratulations 🎈🎉🎊🍾 you have just found HIM 🙌👌🤙
Thanks for all of these Reminder videos. I especially appreciate not having to enter the same “Garbage Night” etc. repeatedly in my calendar. The evening and morning routines you have are genius! I do have to better figure out how to move things between lists etc in Reminders but I think that just requires me to sit done for an hour and really learn how to work with the App. Thanks for your videos. So happy I found you!
I do this as well. One thing I really like about Reminders is the notification stays on your lock screen. With Todoist, I see the notification on my lock screen, but if I unlock my phone, then go back to the lock screen, the notification is gone, I have to swipe up to see it in my history.
Loved the videos thanks Carl. My only disappointment with the app is that you can’t drag and and drop in the scheduled view. For example. I have 3 tasks on Tuesday but want to move the bottom task to the top of the list.
I think that's because anything Apple (or Google or Microsoft) make, will not be for power users who want the ability to re-order tasks etc. I guess if you want that kind of functionality you will need to use a more powerful app.
Carl, I am LOVING your courses! I started watching you here on youtube and loved your teaching style so I tried your free C.O.D. course and worked on it straight to the end. I am presently working through "Your Digital Life 2.0" and you are teaching me so much!!! I have decided to stay within the Apple ecosystem and what to know if I should register in your Apple Course or is it the same as the YDL2.0? Please advise. Thanks!!
Hi Victoria, the basic setup is the same at Your Digital Life, the difference is the Apple course goes into more detail on how to set up the specific apps in the Apple Eco-system and shows you how to incorporate iCloud with your way of doing things.
@@Carl_Pullein Thank you for getting back to me so quickly! I will finish YDL2.0 and then move ahead to your Apple Course. This will act as a "do over" for what I originally learned in YDL2.0 and I'm sure I will pickup on new details that I missed out on the first go-round. Thank you for providing such valuable content!
My whole life is on Reminders, I use it over the last 6 years, yet it's really weird how apple doesn't care about it ! a lot of features missing, for example the web version is bad and I can't see the main lists "Scheduled, today ..." and I have plenty of observations and errors on reminders, yet I will continue to use it. To be honest, I may leave the whole apple ecosystem if they don't care about the product roadmap and the details of their apps.
I suspect Apple (and Google) are in a difficult position here. If they do develop these apps, they will be accused of 'Sherlocking" other app developers. And in the current climate about app stores, that would not be a good strategy.
I thought I would identify certain reminders by placing specific text in a reminder. Therefore a * would identify an action to be taken. *Call would mean a phone call, *Do would identify an action, *App would identify an appointment etc. Then starting a search with a * should display all actions and then *Call would refine the action list to just calls etc. When I type * into the search, every reminder with a * in it appears in the list, however once I continue *C or *Call the list becomes empty. So for some reason searching by *C etc does not work in finding reminders that contain that text. ????
stampinsan My pleasure... Here’s another. Many times I am not taking an action but I am awaiting confirmation of an action by someone else. So I am awaiting a call or an email or a text from someone else and this contact from someone else is to inform me that THEY took an ACTION that they promised me they would do or I told them todo. Lots of times this does not happen! Now I need reminders that I should have heard from someone else re their necessary action to make sure they did it. This reminder I would put the symbol @ or the maybe word AWAITING. So the searchable text might be @CALLBack or @Textback or @Email or @ConBack or @Report. So ideally Apple Reminders will work with searches in this manner to allow me to easily search for reminders of actions that I expect from others.... things that I am waiting for.
It seems to me that Reminders and ToDoist are very similar and you can also set up reminders in Evernote and Trello, so how do you keep all these systems working together?
I think if you were to go all in with Apple Reminders it would become quite frustrated. Todoist is much more refined and has a number of features such as filters and labels that puts quite a bit farther up the ladder than Reminders.
I've watched all the videos on Apple Reminders and skimmed through the comments on each one and while I quite possibly overlooked something I am left wondering if there is any way to have scheduled reminders also show on iCal. This seems like a totally logical and useful pairing of the two apps and yet I'm finding nothing on it. How is this not an option? I'm very visual in how I organize my to-dos and I need to see the month's chores at a glance (in a calendar as opposed to list view). It would be the one thing that would make Reminders fully functional for me. I have only just heard of Todoist and have been told it syncs with Google calendar (which I have linked to iCal). Should I use that instead and not put the time and effort into pouring my life's tasks into Reminders?
Sadly no there isn't, C W. A lot of apps have tried this, but either it is not consistent or it just looks messy. I'm looking forward to see how Todoist does it in an upcoming update.
Ooh, I thought there would be, but it seems not. The only way to do that would be to take a screenshot, save it as a PDF and print it out. Not very efficient, but is a way.
Hi! Really good series about Remindes app. Have you tried to use Reminders to remind of a phone call? Let's say, for instance, "Siri, remind me to call Zac at 12:10pm"... Well, before iOS 13, in the notification pop up, there was a little "phone icon" that allowed you to call the person directly from the notification. Now, with iOS 13, this (for me very) useful feature disappeared! :'( Did you notice this bug? Thanks a lot for all your videos!
Hello and a very basic question if I may. When I fold / hide the lists inside a group, using the arrow type thing, or for that matter fold / hide the subtasks inside a task, and then close the app, and then later come back to it, I find that the folded / hidden lists / tasks are not hidden anymore. Which means everytime I open up the Reminders app, the lists (inside the groups) and subtasks (inside the tasks) are all sprayed around like so many open drawers. I realise this is a pointless question at one level and hence all I ask i I may have missed something, some basic trick. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I’m reminding my self to use reminders , here one more time, since I never cared for it when I once tried it in 2013? Now I need to do a reminder emotican
I only have Apple reminders on my iPhone and iPad and iCloud using my Windows computer. My iCloud version of Apple Reminders does not appear like your “desktop” version and I can not find how to get a desktop version of Apple Reminders like yours.
I guess the only way to so that would be through the Mac App. I notice that the smart lists are not showing in Reminders on iCloud. Hope that will come soon.
Am I seeing things? When we tap on “Hide Completed” it will only hide currently completed reminders but not continue to hide any future completed reminders? That means to hide any future completed reminders we have to keep tapping on “Show Completed” then “Hide Completed” over and over and over again?
If you tap on a reminder circle right now then tap on “Hide Completed” it will only hide that reminder. If you complete a reminder five minutes later then another one ten minutes later the app won’t continue to hide those two completed reminders. We have to manually tap on “Show Completed” then “Hide Completed” to have all three reminders completed. Now imagine having to go through that routine for every single reminder you complete in the future that you want hidden as well. Is it true that the Apple Reminders app doesn’t automatically hide completed reminders?
I have. I was forced in to it as I do a lot of my coaching calls late at night and I just couldn't survive on 4 hours sleep. I need a minimum of 5½ hours. :-)
If we talk to Siri to create a reminder then Siri should talk back to us through a notification when or where we wanted to be reminded. The interaction should work both ways if Siri is suppose to be a digital assistant.
Carl Pullein Yes. But currently Siri only responds to us instead of initiating dialogue without us talking to her. Siri will respond and create the reminder but when the reminder is due she doesn’t speak to the user. Siri should follow though with the reminder. We should get a notification from Siri saying something like “It is 4:00 p.m. don’t forget to buy milk”.
@@Patrick76399 That's true, but I can see a whole load of problems if Siri was able to initiate a conversation. There I am presenting an incredibly important pitch to some very important clients and in the middle of the presentation Siri speaks up to remind me to buy toilet paper on the way home. I think Siri not being able to initiate conversations is by design.
Is there anything that doesn’t belong in Apple Reminders? What is not considered a reminder? What should we be adding to a checklist in the Apple Notes app instead?
Ah, now that's a question only you can answer. Everyone uses these apps differently and really the only thing is that it works for you. I prefer my checklists in Notes, but many others prefer to keep them in Todoist or Microsoft's To-Do.
A friend of mine was asking the other day. So I ask it here. What would you say is the Windows equivalent of Reminders. A free and reasonably tasty todo app.
I really like Apple reminders and use it all the time but I’ve noticed that when you start to really use Apple reminders with all the functions that they allow like Geo tagging uploading pictures and documents and reminders for time-based locations that the watch only has so much storage and you can really clog it up and I’ve had to stop using Apple reminders and using the iCloud sync because there’s no way to delete the Apple Reminders app on the Apple Watch. I wish there was a fix where you could only select certain groups that you wanted synced to the Apple Watch allowing you to keep the iCloud sync but since Apple doesn’t allow you to delete the Apple Reminders app I had to break the syncing functionality and it’s really frustrating please Apple fix this. Now nothing pairs fluidly between my watch my phone my tablet and my computer it’s super lame. @apple #pleasefixthis
This series is gold!
Happy to hear you like it, Pravin.
Nice add. I implemented this. Agree on routines in Todoist as there was always mental friction for me and, as you mentioned, reminders pop up on watch really well. Then revised “morning” to “AM” and “evening” to “PM”. Visually shorter text and matches the orange /blue flag idea in Todoist (for AM/PM) 😉
Oh yeah, I didn't think of that. I might just change my colours too :-)
Carl, I have enjoyed watching these series and it definitely helped me using the new reminders. I was so happy to see Apple FINALLY updated reminders. Reminders were so bad I had to contact Apple support several times, the main issues was my data wasn’t syncing which was a disaster for me. I still need to “try” and decide on one other system to keep track of everything, from personal, school, my business and miscellaneous. I have used (OneNote , Cozi, & Apple). Finding the “perfect” list to make me happy has been hard! Looking forward to more videos....Great job!! 👏🏽👏🏽
Thank you and I am glad you've enjoyed to series. More videos are coming.
Carl is an INCREDIBLE teacher I have really enjoyed learning from him and his channel if you want to unlock the power of the Apple 🍎 Ecosystem then congratulations 🎈🎉🎊🍾 you have just found HIM 🙌👌🤙
Thank you, MaiKai. I really appreciate your support. 🙏🤗
Thanks for all of these Reminder videos. I especially appreciate not having to enter the same “Garbage Night” etc. repeatedly in my calendar. The evening and morning routines you have are genius! I do have to better figure out how to move things between lists etc in Reminders but I think that just requires me to sit done for an hour and really learn how to work with the App. Thanks for your videos. So happy I found you!
You're very welcome. I am happy to have been of some help.
I do this as well. One thing I really like about Reminders is the notification stays on your lock screen. With Todoist, I see the notification on my lock screen, but if I unlock my phone, then go back to the lock screen, the notification is gone, I have to swipe up to see it in my history.
Yeah, I noticed that too. Reminders won't let me forget LOL
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How to set duration in reminders ? Or start time and end time. ?
Not possible. You can create recurring tasks, but start dates and end dates are the realms of more feature-rich task managers.
Dhanyavad!🙏🏼
Loved the videos thanks Carl.
My only disappointment with the app is that you can’t drag and and drop in the scheduled view. For example. I have 3 tasks on Tuesday but want to move the bottom task to the top of the list.
I think that's because anything Apple (or Google or Microsoft) make, will not be for power users who want the ability to re-order tasks etc. I guess if you want that kind of functionality you will need to use a more powerful app.
Carl, I am LOVING your courses! I started watching you here on youtube and loved your teaching style so I tried your free C.O.D. course and worked on it straight to the end. I am presently working through "Your Digital Life 2.0" and you are teaching me so much!!! I have decided to stay within the Apple ecosystem and what to know if I should register in your Apple Course or is it the same as the YDL2.0? Please advise. Thanks!!
Hi Victoria, the basic setup is the same at Your Digital Life, the difference is the Apple course goes into more detail on how to set up the specific apps in the Apple Eco-system and shows you how to incorporate iCloud with your way of doing things.
@@Carl_Pullein Thank you for getting back to me so quickly! I will finish YDL2.0 and then move ahead to your Apple Course. This will act as a "do over" for what I originally learned in YDL2.0 and I'm sure I will pickup on new details that I missed out on the first go-round. Thank you for providing such valuable content!
My whole life is on Reminders, I use it over the last 6 years, yet it's really weird how apple doesn't care about it ! a lot of features missing, for example the web version is bad and I can't see the main lists "Scheduled, today ..." and I have plenty of observations and errors on reminders, yet I will continue to use it.
To be honest, I may leave the whole apple ecosystem if they don't care about the product roadmap and the details of their apps.
I suspect Apple (and Google) are in a difficult position here. If they do develop these apps, they will be accused of 'Sherlocking" other app developers. And in the current climate about app stores, that would not be a good strategy.
Nice series
Thank you, Mike
What is the point of the Today smart list when we can create, view and edit reminders for today in the Scheduled smart list?
Not sure either.
I thought I would identify certain reminders by placing specific text in a reminder. Therefore a * would identify an action to be taken. *Call would mean a phone call, *Do would identify an action, *App would identify an appointment etc. Then starting a search with a * should display all actions and then *Call would refine the action list to just calls etc. When I type * into the search, every reminder with a * in it appears in the list, however once I continue *C or *Call the list becomes empty. So for some reason searching by *C etc does not work in finding reminders that contain that text. ????
Hmmm I guess Apple haven't put much thought in to the search feature yet.
Tom Williams Love your system to identify Action Items! Simple yet so needed by me! Thanks for sharing!
stampinsan
My pleasure...
Here’s another. Many times I am not taking an action but I am awaiting confirmation of an action by someone else. So I am awaiting a call or an email or a text from someone else and this contact from someone else is to inform me that THEY took an ACTION that they promised me they would do or I told them todo. Lots of times this does not happen! Now I need reminders that I should have heard from someone else re their necessary action to make sure they did it. This reminder I would put the symbol @ or the maybe word AWAITING. So the searchable text might be @CALLBack or @Textback or @Email or @ConBack or @Report. So ideally Apple Reminders will work with searches in this manner to allow me to easily search for reminders of actions that I expect from others.... things that I am waiting for.
It seems to me that Reminders and ToDoist are very similar and you can also set up reminders in Evernote and Trello, so how do you keep all these systems working together?
I think if you were to go all in with Apple Reminders it would become quite frustrated. Todoist is much more refined and has a number of features such as filters and labels that puts quite a bit farther up the ladder than Reminders.
I've watched all the videos on Apple Reminders and skimmed through the comments on each one and while I quite possibly overlooked something I am left wondering if there is any way to have scheduled reminders also show on iCal. This seems like a totally logical and useful pairing of the two apps and yet I'm finding nothing on it. How is this not an option? I'm very visual in how I organize my to-dos and I need to see the month's chores at a glance (in a calendar as opposed to list view). It would be the one thing that would make Reminders fully functional for me. I have only just heard of Todoist and have been told it syncs with Google calendar (which I have linked to iCal). Should I use that instead and not put the time and effort into pouring my life's tasks into Reminders?
Sadly no there isn't, C W. A lot of apps have tried this, but either it is not consistent or it just looks messy. I'm looking forward to see how Todoist does it in an upcoming update.
Thanks! Another bright idea for me!
Glad to be of help, Anthony.
Is there anyway to print the two list so I can distribute a paper copy to my staff
Ooh, I thought there would be, but it seems not. The only way to do that would be to take a screenshot, save it as a PDF and print it out. Not very efficient, but is a way.
Good idea for using this. I will also give a try like this.
Hope it works for you, Aaron.
Hi! Really good series about Remindes app.
Have you tried to use Reminders to remind of a phone call? Let's say, for instance, "Siri, remind me to call Zac at 12:10pm"... Well, before iOS 13, in the notification pop up, there was a little "phone icon" that allowed you to call the person directly from the notification. Now, with iOS 13, this (for me very) useful feature disappeared! :'(
Did you notice this bug?
Thanks a lot for all your videos!
Ooh, I haven't noticed that one. I'm sure these little 'bugs' will be fixed in time.
@@Carl_Pullein I hope... because this was sooo useful to me! :-)
Would you call the Apple Reminders app a personal task manager?
Yes. It would be very good at that.
Hello and a very basic question if I may. When I fold / hide the lists inside a group, using the arrow type thing, or for that matter fold / hide the subtasks inside a task, and then close the app, and then later come back to it, I find that the folded / hidden lists / tasks are not hidden anymore. Which means everytime I open up the Reminders app, the lists (inside the groups) and subtasks (inside the tasks) are all sprayed around like so many open drawers. I realise this is a pointless question at one level and hence all I ask i I may have missed something, some basic trick. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Yeah, I noticed that too. Not sure why it does that. It could be a bug or intentional.
Carl Pullein Ah well.
I’m reminding my self to use reminders , here one more time, since I never cared for it when I once tried it in 2013? Now I need to do a reminder emotican
I only have Apple reminders on my iPhone and iPad and iCloud using my Windows computer. My iCloud version of Apple Reminders does not appear like your “desktop” version and I can not find how to get a desktop version of Apple Reminders like yours.
I guess the only way to so that would be through the Mac App. I notice that the smart lists are not showing in Reminders on iCloud. Hope that will come soon.
Carl Pullein
Thanks for your quick response.
Am I seeing things? When we tap on “Hide Completed” it will only hide currently completed reminders but not continue to hide any future completed reminders? That means to hide any future completed reminders we have to keep tapping on “Show Completed” then “Hide Completed” over and over and over again?
Hmmm I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "future completes" how could something be completed in the future?
If you tap on a reminder circle right now then tap on “Hide Completed” it will only hide that reminder. If you complete a reminder five minutes later then another one ten minutes later the app won’t continue to hide those two completed reminders. We have to manually tap on “Show Completed” then “Hide Completed” to have all three reminders completed. Now imagine having to go through that routine for every single reminder you complete in the future that you want hidden as well. Is it true that the Apple Reminders app doesn’t automatically hide completed reminders?
Excellent 👍🏻 Thank you for sharing 👏
You're very welcome ;-)
In none of the videos in the Reminder series you did not mentioned what to do after a task is completed?
Hmm well, for me, once a tasks is done it's done. I can forget about it then. It is possible to view completed tasks, but I don't need that.
Carl have you moved out 5am club? Saw you getting up at 6am routine
I have. I was forced in to it as I do a lot of my coaching calls late at night and I just couldn't survive on 4 hours sleep. I need a minimum of 5½ hours. :-)
@@Carl_Pullein it makes sense
Nice work Carl! :-)
Thank you.
Todo list not two
If we talk to Siri to create a reminder then Siri should talk back to us through a notification when or where we wanted to be reminded. The interaction should work both ways if Siri is suppose to be a digital assistant.
If you day "Remind me to..." she will ask you "When you want to be reminded"
Carl Pullein Yes. But currently Siri only responds to us instead of initiating dialogue without us talking to her. Siri will respond and create the reminder but when the reminder is due she doesn’t speak to the user. Siri should follow though with the reminder. We should get a notification from Siri saying something like “It is 4:00 p.m. don’t forget to buy milk”.
@@Patrick76399 That's true, but I can see a whole load of problems if Siri was able to initiate a conversation. There I am presenting an incredibly important pitch to some very important clients and in the middle of the presentation Siri speaks up to remind me to buy toilet paper on the way home. I think Siri not being able to initiate conversations is by design.
Is there anything that doesn’t belong in Apple Reminders? What is not considered a reminder? What should we be adding to a checklist in the Apple Notes app instead?
Ah, now that's a question only you can answer. Everyone uses these apps differently and really the only thing is that it works for you. I prefer my checklists in Notes, but many others prefer to keep them in Todoist or Microsoft's To-Do.
For some reason, this series reminds me of The Brentford Trilogy, lol!
hahahaha
A friend of mine was asking the other day. So I ask it here. What would you say is the Windows equivalent of Reminders. A free and reasonably tasty todo app.
accentontheoff Microsoft To Do
Patrick J. Trevenen Yep thanks. Although, you think the new Reminders is better?
I would say Microsoft To-Do too. If you are in the Windows environment, then stick with MS apps. These days they are very solid.
Carl Pullein Got it thanks Carl.
More Google Apps please...Keep, Drive, Kalender, G-Suite.
Best combination!
I delete Evernote, Todoist...
I don't know enough about Google apps. I use them occasionally but only for collaborating.
I really like Apple reminders and use it all the time but I’ve noticed that when you start to really use Apple reminders with all the functions that they allow like Geo tagging uploading pictures and documents and reminders for time-based locations that the watch only has so much storage and you can really clog it up and I’ve had to stop using Apple reminders and using the iCloud sync because there’s no way to delete the Apple Reminders app on the Apple Watch. I wish there was a fix where you could only select certain groups that you wanted synced to the Apple Watch allowing you to keep the iCloud sync but since Apple doesn’t allow you to delete the Apple Reminders app I had to break the syncing functionality and it’s really frustrating please Apple fix this.
Now nothing pairs fluidly between my watch my phone my tablet and my computer it’s super lame. @apple #pleasefixthis