You can include a variety of snooze options, ranging from 5 minutes to 4 hours, or even push a task to tomorrow, the weekend, or next week. Next, notifications are especially powerful in Reminder due to the way they can be customized to include the actions you value most. It’s rare to find a dark mode option in a task manager, not to mention one that takes advantage of an OLED’s ability to display true black, but both Reminder and GoodTask include one. There are three other Reminder features I want to highlight briefly.įirst, the app includes a dark mode that looks especially great on OLED displays. Finally, the Reminders tab contains all your tasks, whether they have due times or not, and also offers a quick way to add new tasks to existing lists. Unlike Reminders, however, where you can’t distinguish tasks from different lists inside the Scheduled view, Reminder’s For You retains the color markers that identify each list, which provides both visual flavor and practical benefit. The former is like the Scheduled list in Apple’s Reminders, providing an overview of all tasks that currently have due dates. Reminder allows me to save time setting that alert individually, so even when I need to delay the alert until later, I’m still configuring due times far less often than before.įor You and Reminders tabs join Lists as alternate ways to view your tasks. Personally, most new tasks I create receive due dates of 6:00pm today, meaning I want to get to them by the end of the work day. Chances are low that you’ll want every to-do in a list to have the same alerts, but if the majority of your tasks do receive the same configurations, default alerts can be a helpful time-saving measure. So, for example, you can cause all future tasks to automatically receive ‘This Evening’ due times, or to always alert you when you reach a certain location. It’s also where you’ll find one of Reminder’s hidden power features: under the Details screen for a list, you’ll see options to set default time and location alerts for all future tasks added to this list. The Lists tab is the place for editing, creating, or viewing individual lists. Reminder’s tab bar offers three main ways to view your to-dos. Overall, the design is a drastic departure from Reminders in every way, but not so from iOS itself. 1 This tile structure is accompanied by the use of iOS 11’s big, bold headings, and there’s even a ‘For You’ section like in many modern Apple apps. Like in Home, the interface is composed of a grid of different tiles, which in Reminder’s case represent your various to-dos. Whereas Reminders’ design looks increasingly outdated after sitting unchanged for years, Reminder takes a page from one of Apple’s most recent design styles by modeling itself after the Home app. Two such apps, Reminder and GoodTask, serve as perhaps the best third-party Reminders clients on the App Store.Įach app takes a different approach to enhancing Reminders, with one focusing on modern design while the other offers power user features and flexibility both, however, retain some of the benefits of staying in the Apple ecosystem while improving upon the first-party Reminders app.ĭeveloper Mark DiFranco has built a Reminders client that appears far more native to iOS than Apple’s actual native option does. Just as Fantastical and Timepage offer access to your existing iCloud calendars, developers can similarly build entire replacements for the Reminders app utilizing your existing collection of lists and to-dos. The underlying system powering Reminders is calendar-based, meaning it’s not tied to a single first-party app. Though developers can’t build apps that hook in directly with your Messages or Notes databases, Reminders is a different story. Unlike most of Apple’s other iOS apps, Reminders is built on a framework that’s accessible to third-party developers. It may not be as capable as alternatives like Things, but the app remains an appealing tool for those whose needs are light, and who value the ease afforded by Apple’s built-in ecosystem. Many times over the years Reminders has been my primary task manager and served me fairly well. And on the two most popular sellers, the iPhone and iPad, one of those bundled apps is Reminders.Īt its core, Reminders is a simple list and to-do app that can be surprisingly powerful thanks to features like repeating tasks, location-based reminders, collaborative lists, and note support. Because of this, every purchaser of Apple products benefits from the built-in apps and services that accompany those products. Apple has long prided itself on being a company that carefully weaves hardware, software, and services together to offer a holistic user experience.
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