Get started with Reminders
Never forget those important tasks again
WRITTEN BY Kenny Hemphill
Beginner’s Guides
Introducing Reminders
Apple’s
Reminders
app
has
come a long way over the last few years.
From a fairly basic to-do list tool that enabled us to set alerts to a fully fledged task manager that supports multiple lists, tagging, and sharing with others. Throw in the fact that it syncs with iCloud across all your devices, and there’s no excuse for forgetting anything ever again. And if typing details of a task into your iPhone or Mac is too much effort, you can ask Siri to do it for you. Creating basic reminders really couldn’t be easier. But Reminders goes way beyond the basics.
Let’s say you want to remind yourself to buy tickets for a concert just before they go on sale. You could create the reminder, add the URL of the ticket sales site and the price of the ticket. That way, when the reminder alert is triggered, you can just tap the reminder to navigate directly to the website. Need to remember to buy milk next time you’re in the supermarket? Set a geofenced reminder that’s triggered the next time iOS senses your location is close to that supermarket.
Talking of supermarkets, there is a pre-created Groceries list you can add items to. And you can create your own lists, or templates for lists, and store them in folders.