The Reminders app , although it is ideal to carry the shopping list, allows us much more than this . Thanks to the possibility of scheduling notifications of the different tasks, we can organize our day-to-day activities easily and efficiently. In this organization, a couple of little-known settings of the app come into play that will allow us to customize it to our liking.
When personalization makes a difference
When we program a reminder, the normal thing is that we do it for a specific time and day, for example saying “Hey Siri, tomorrow at 3:00 pm remind me to call Tim Cook”, but we can go a little further. From iOS 14 we can program the reminders for a specific day, in fact the same system offers us this option in the form of a small button to choose between Today , Tomorrow , This weekend or Date and time .
In the first three cases, the reminder is programmed to notify us at 9 in the morning, although we can change the time of the notification. We do so:
- We open the Settingsapp on our iPhone or iPad.
- We enter Reminders.
- Under Reminders that last all daywe play in Time and write the one we want.
Being able to receive notice of the reminders assigned to today at 7 in the morning if we get up early, or at 10, for example, when we have already arrived at the office and we have had the morning meeting, is a small change that can mark a big difference.
The other interesting option to customize is how the reminders that we have not complied with are managed. Here we have two options: show them as overdue from the next day or not. In the first case, we will see the little red button on the icon to remind us of an unfulfilled task. We can adjust this behavior in the same step three, activating or deactivating Show as late .
On the Mac the operation is the same, both for the time of the notices and for the late reminders. We will adjust them like this:
- We open the Remindersapp .
- In the Remindersmenu we choose Preferences .
- We adjust the time of the notification and enable or disable Show reminders that last all day as late.
Let us bear in mind that the reminder time, as well as the setting of overdue reminders, is unique for each team, so we can configure the two variables differently on our iPhone, iPad or Mac. In general we will surely want to unify this behavior, but If we want to receive a first alert on our iPhone in the morning and a reminder later when we are in front of our Mac we can do it.
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Easy right? The Reminders app on our iPhone, iPad or Mac can be used to schedule the list of tasks we have on a specific day and to organize our schedule and commitments. Being able to receive notifications at the time that suits us and we agree on those tasks that we must fulfill is, without a doubt, of great utility.
