Great video and full of useful info but….I never made to the end due to the pointless waffle. The first 50 seconds added nothing. The title said it all so go straight to tip number 1. Each 'tip' was too wordy, you clearly have a script in front of you so cut out all the filler and stay on the point. And try to be less 'professional actor' and more 'enthusiastic amateur' - the information is what’s important not your desire to be Tom Hanks. Very useful though so thanks.
Thank you for the feedback. For reference, there is no script... if there was, I could be much more concise. I have improved over the years of doing this, so your feedback will help me improve even more. Thanks for watching!
Great to hear! I love showing people tips that are already on their devices that they never learned about. Apple makeds great technology, but they don't teach anyone how to use it.
Hi Dylan sorry I had to leave early on the zoom call. I did mention it to Carlo at the start. Yes it was I with one of my Hawaiian shirts. Great tips always. And loved the tips on Notes Stay safe Sincerely The 👕😎❤️ BIAGIO
I just watched this video and the iOS 18 videos very impressed. Normally, I make it through half of a video and say I will finish later. You are now on my favorites list. I’m off to see what else you have. I am trying to learn the new Apple ecosystem after😊 using a Mac for almost forty years.
Love it!!!! Please let me know what else you would like to learn about and I can either send you some suggestions, or I might make a video just for you.
Great videos, but please Help. I "hid" List that I didn't really need to see like Completed, but I can't find any Unpin function on my iPhone Reminders. Its like I deleted these list, which I know I didn't. Any ideas where these list somehow mysteriously disappeared and how to get them back on the Main List? Thanks
I used Reminders to organize my grocery shopping by the aisles I went down as I moved through the store. But Apple updated the app and "organized" my list by department. The store I shop at doesn't have the departments in the same order that Apple decided on. Items I used to encounter when I entered the store are, per Apple, now located in the middle of my shopping. As a result, I now have to create a shopping list in notes so I can again organize items by the layout of my local store. I wish there was a way to un-do the upgrade of reminders to make it useful again. AGGH.
Hi, I think you made this comment a few weeks ago and I tried to help. Here's the solution… Just turn off automatic sorting on that list. Change it from a grocery list back to a standard list by going into the info for that list and changing the type. This will revert it to the previous way of tracking things, and will allow you to either leave it unsorted, or for you to sort it anyway you like. Then you don't have to deal with notes. In many cases updates don't permanently change things, you still have the control to make changes yourself… And this is one of those cases.
Reminders lacks of something very useful that I don't understand is not in the app (or maybe I am wrong and it exists). It is just a simple repeated alarm with sound to warn you!!. Regards
It absolutely can do that... it's one of the core features. You just have to make sure in notifications you have sounds turned on and that you have the sound set to something that will be noticable. i even recorded one of my clients voice's and set that as the reminder sound so they would hear themselves reminding them to get things done.
Question. It seems like hashtags can be pretty useful in your reminders. However it also seems like this could get out of control. Concerned about creating tons of hashtags with many of them overlapping with previously created tags (maybe from a tag created months ago that you forget). Are there any guidelines on how to choose a standard set of hashtags to use for your lists?
For me hashtags are best used when the reminder might show up in several lists... like Purchases, Gifts, and family... to solve that I only use tags that will make it easier to find reminders that are spread across differnt lists... things like family member names, specific kinds of reminders (like my #burningman reminders - which could be purchases, articles or to-do'c, etc). In general keep the tags somewhat generic (rather than super specific) and you should be fine.
Yes, they are... but you have to be on iOS 17. Once you are in any list click the 3 dots in the upper right corner, and choose "view as"and choose columns, then from the 3 dots you can add new "sections" to create additional columns.
My reminders keep turning off, and I have to go back and turn Reminders on. Any solution to this problem. Thank you so much for your great videos, I learned a lot.
Do you have it turned on through iCloud? And is that where it turns off? You can find out by going to settings, Reminders, and accounts. If possible, only use iCloud for reminders, and I bet that issue will solve itself.
Dylan, I consider myself pretty techie but I found this video outstanding. Thank You. Really well done. Have a long history of running companies with Omnifocus. Then, when I was just consulting, I used Things 3. I'm COO of an Energy Company using GQueues that integrates well with Google Workspace. Started using Apple Reminders for all my personal tasks. After this video I could almost run my company using Apple Reminders. Now I want to view a video on using Siri with Reminders so I can do preassignment while in Siri. I have subscribed and liked. Again, well done. Don
Welcome aboard, Don! Thanks for the compliments. I used to use things and OmniFocus back in the day… But reminders just simplified everything, and using it with Siri makes it even easier. I have some additional videos that will be coming out soon that will take it to the next level. Keep watching!
You can use a third party apps like Busycal to do it now, but if you wait until September Apple will be adding that feature directly into the Calendar app on the iphone, ipad and computer.
Hi very nice video. I was considering buying a productivity sotware but now that i saw your video, I can easily do it with my Apple prodcuts (Mac M1, Ipad pro, Apple watch and Iphone) because they all sync! Why not take advantage of it because i already have them instead buying a new software. I didn't know that you can make colums in Reminders, now that I know i want to use them as Kanban, can you maybe make a video how to use columns in Reminders as Kanban layout? Thank you and I subscribed!
Great video. But, have you noticed that Reminders doesn’t allow to add a file on the “add image option? It allows to scan a document but not to pick one from your files. Big time flaw that should be fixed by Apple. Do you know if IOS 18 will fix this issue? Thanks.
On the computer, you can drag any image right into the add image section of reminders. On the phone, it can only be accessed from your photo library or by taking a picture. It's definitely more flexible on the computer, but it's not useless on the phone. It just requires you to add the image to your photo library, and once it is in Reminders, you can remove it from the library if you want. And unfortunately that hasn't changed on iOS 18.
I learned the hard way that smart lists aren’t stand-alone lists of filtered tasks but a quasi-duplicate of existing postings. I mistakenly created a smart list of shows, tagging them with ‘#shows’, thinking I’d be able to just enter a new reminder with that tag and have it bounce only into the smartlist. Instead, it would go into the smart list AND into the default reminders list-and there is no deleting it from the default list without deleting it from the smarlist as well. Your video is most helpful, and in particular I am intending to use the columns feature for planning the school year curriculum with my colleagues. Fingers crossed!
Yes, smart lists are not actual lists. They are just saved searches. It's a good way to find things, but a lousy way to sort them. This is true of smart albums in photos, smart folders in notes, smart mailboxes in mail, and everywhere else they use the term "Smart". It is just a saved search, not an actual list, folder or album... so use them sparingly, and sort things using other methods as a primary form of organization instead. Good luck with the columns and curriculum. Seems like a smart use of the app!
No workaround yet, because the contects of a smart list are really just a saved search... and if you share a search the other person will have different results. My workaround is to just make it a standard list (which is shareable) rather than a smart list. In truth i only have one or two smart lists, but i have dozens and dozens of standard lists.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a big fan of faceless TH-cam videos (there's always the question of whether a human created it or it was just automatic AI), but I will keep it in mind as I make future videos.
Excellent video. Learned a lot. Was unable to figure out how to add tags to multiple items at once in column view on the Mac. I was able to select the items in the column view without a problem, but when I tried to add tags by either using the control or command keys, it just reverts to selecting one item.
Once you have all the reminders selected you can right click on them to select a tag, or drag all of the selected tasks onto one of the existing tags on the left.
Awesome, it can be confusing because as usual Apple doesn’t name things in a very intuitive way, and doesn’t tell anybody how to use their software. Glad it helped, glad you found me, thanks for watching.
I love Reminders (thanks to you Dylan). And I love it even more now that I'm using the power tips you've taught me that you call out in this video. Love your faux Brit accent/invitation at the end. ~Cindy
Question - I have a lot of tasks in a legacy app (Microsoft To-Do) that I’d like to migrate to Reminders. Is there an easy way to upload them to avoids duplicate data entry?
You can add you Microsoft account and sync reminders, they’ll just show up there and you can manage them from here moving forward, maybe move them to an iCloud synced list and disable the reminders sync to clean things up, but absolutely doable! 😊
@Zehph has a great suggestion. You should be able to sync them into reminders and then move them over. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to import them other than that, so hopefully that will work for you... otherwise, I hope you are really good at copy/paste....
I don’t mind it. Sometimes I click on it by mistake and it gives me a chance to fix it before it disappears into the completed pile. It also reminds me to be patient… Which is a virtue I always can be reminded about since I’d like to happen faster than it actually does.
A stupid editing glitch. I’m going to look into what I can do to fix it tomorrow morning. I may be stuck with it for this video unless I want to re-upload the whole thing.
There are many 3rd party apps that do. (I use one called BusyCal which is a part of the SetApp subscription I recommend to all my clients). But in the next operating systems Apple will release in September (iOS 18, iPadOS 18, MacOS 15) Apple will automatically integrate the reminders into the Calendar. Until then if you are interested in checking out BusyCal or other great apps you can try out SetApp here: setapp.sjv.io/c/4102508/344537/5114
Great video and full of useful info but….I never made to the end due to the pointless waffle. The first 50 seconds added nothing. The title said it all so go straight to tip number 1. Each 'tip' was too wordy, you clearly have a script in front of you so cut out all the filler and stay on the point. And try to be less 'professional actor' and more 'enthusiastic amateur' - the information is what’s important not your desire to be Tom Hanks. Very useful though so thanks.
Thank you for the feedback. For reference, there is no script... if there was, I could be much more concise. I have improved over the years of doing this, so your feedback will help me improve even more. Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much. I am truly grateful that your help resolved the issue.
Looking at Reminders in a whole new light. Now a subscriber! Thanks!!
Thanks for the subscription!! Glad to have you aboard.
I had no idea about columns or templates. This is going to be so useful. Thanks!!
Great to hear! I love showing people tips that are already on their devices that they never learned about. Apple makeds great technology, but they don't teach anyone how to use it.
Hi Dylan sorry I had to leave early on the zoom call.
I did mention it to Carlo at the start.
Yes it was I with one of my Hawaiian shirts.
Great tips always.
And loved the tips on Notes
Stay safe
Sincerely
The 👕😎❤️
BIAGIO
Glad to see you face to face finally! Thanks for watching!!!
I don't know why your channel isn't more popular. You are awesome! Thank you
I really appreciate that! You are getting in on the ground level... this rocket ship is about to launch!!!! Spread the news!
I just watched this video and the iOS 18 videos very impressed. Normally, I make it through half of a video and say I will finish later. You are now on my favorites list. I’m off to see what else you have. I am trying to learn the new Apple ecosystem after😊 using a Mac for almost forty years.
Love it!!!! Please let me know what else you would like to learn about and I can either send you some suggestions, or I might make a video just for you.
Thanks but dude you need to fix your web cam
You're making it hard for me to stay with Android. It's been hard with the fragmentation of Android which is why I watch Apple user videos.
So sorry. If only there as something better than googles fragmented mess..
Sorry - not sorry.
Thanks for watching!!
Great videos, but please Help. I "hid" List that I didn't really need to see like Completed, but I can't find any Unpin function on my iPhone Reminders. Its like I deleted these list, which I know I didn't. Any ideas where these list somehow mysteriously disappeared and how to get them back on the Main List? Thanks
Glad you sorted it out.
I used Reminders to organize my grocery shopping by the aisles I went down as I moved through the store. But Apple updated the app and "organized" my list by department. The store I shop at doesn't have the departments in the same order that Apple decided on. Items I used to encounter when I entered the store are, per Apple, now located in the middle of my shopping. As a result, I now have to create a shopping list in notes so I can again organize items by the layout of my local store. I wish there was a way to un-do the upgrade of reminders to make it useful again. AGGH.
Hi, I think you made this comment a few weeks ago and I tried to help. Here's the solution… Just turn off automatic sorting on that list. Change it from a grocery list back to a standard list by going into the info for that list and changing the type. This will revert it to the previous way of tracking things, and will allow you to either leave it unsorted, or for you to sort it anyway you like. Then you don't have to deal with notes.
In many cases updates don't permanently change things, you still have the control to make changes yourself… And this is one of those cases.
9:00 your eye has been smudged by some filter lol
it keeps happening at times in the video. 😅
Yeah, stupid beta tool on my editing program. I can't fix it now, but i have fixed it for future videos. Thanks for noticing 😳
Reminders lacks of something very useful that I don't understand is not in the app (or maybe I am wrong and it exists). It is just a simple repeated alarm with sound to warn you!!.
Regards
It absolutely can do that... it's one of the core features. You just have to make sure in notifications you have sounds turned on and that you have the sound set to something that will be noticable. i even recorded one of my clients voice's and set that as the reminder sound so they would hear themselves reminding them to get things done.
Question. It seems like hashtags can be pretty useful in your reminders. However it also seems like this could get out of control. Concerned about creating tons of hashtags with many of them overlapping with previously created tags (maybe from a tag created months ago that you forget). Are there any guidelines on how to choose a standard set of hashtags to use for your lists?
For me hashtags are best used when the reminder might show up in several lists... like Purchases, Gifts, and family... to solve that I only use tags that will make it easier to find reminders that are spread across differnt lists... things like family member names, specific kinds of reminders (like my #burningman reminders - which could be purchases, articles or to-do'c, etc).
In general keep the tags somewhat generic (rather than super specific) and you should be fine.
Definitely a helpful video. Are these options available on the iPhone? I’ve been trying to create columns but can’t figure it out!
Yes, they are... but you have to be on iOS 17. Once you are in any list click the 3 dots in the upper right corner, and choose "view as"and choose columns, then from the 3 dots you can add new "sections" to create additional columns.
@@TheMacWhisperer thanks for the reply! I have to get iOS 17. That’s why I could t figure it out. Thanks!
Thanks!
Absolutely! Thanks for watching!
Wow, that was a lot of information, but well presented! Thanks
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
I've created a group of lists, but don't see a way to share that group with my husband ???
You can't share an entire Group, but you can share individual lists, then he can add those list into a group on his devices.
My reminders keep turning off, and I have to go back and turn Reminders on. Any solution to this problem. Thank you so much for your great videos, I learned a lot.
What device are you having the issue with? And are you using it through iCloud or through a different service?
@@TheMacWhisperer Thank you so much. I have iPhone 11 and mcbook pro ( Sonoma) bought 2 years ago.
problem is with iPhone reminders.
Do you have it turned on through iCloud? And is that where it turns off? You can find out by going to settings, Reminders, and accounts. If possible, only use iCloud for reminders, and I bet that issue will solve itself.
@@TheMacWhisperer. Thank you very much. I am truly grateful that your help resolved the issue.
I meant the tips on FILES of course.
One question: how do I go about getting the rest of the call that I missed ?
Thanks.
The free workshop replay will be sent to your email later today.
Thanks a lot.
BB
Dylan, I consider myself pretty techie but I found this video outstanding. Thank You. Really well done.
Have a long history of running companies with Omnifocus. Then, when I was just consulting, I used Things 3. I'm COO of an Energy Company using GQueues that integrates well with Google Workspace.
Started using Apple Reminders for all my personal tasks. After this video I could almost run my company using Apple Reminders. Now I want to view a video on using Siri with Reminders so I can do preassignment while in Siri. I have subscribed and liked. Again, well done. Don
Welcome aboard, Don! Thanks for the compliments.
I used to use things and OmniFocus back in the day… But reminders just simplified everything, and using it with Siri makes it even easier. I have some additional videos that will be coming out soon that will take it to the next level. Keep watching!
Is there a way to add a reminder to a calendar
You can use a third party apps like Busycal to do it now, but if you wait until September Apple will be adding that feature directly into the Calendar app on the iphone, ipad and computer.
Hi very nice video. I was considering buying a productivity sotware but now that i saw your video, I can easily do it with my Apple prodcuts (Mac M1, Ipad pro, Apple watch and Iphone) because they all sync! Why not take advantage of it because i already have them instead buying a new software. I didn't know that you can make colums in Reminders, now that I know i want to use them as Kanban, can you maybe make a video how to use columns in Reminders as Kanban layout? Thank you and I subscribed!
Great suggestion. I will add it to my list of future videos.
Great video. But, have you noticed that Reminders doesn’t allow to add a file on the “add image option? It allows to scan a document but not to pick one from your files. Big time flaw that should be fixed by Apple. Do you know if IOS 18 will fix this issue? Thanks.
On the computer, you can drag any image right into the add image section of reminders. On the phone, it can only be accessed from your photo library or by taking a picture. It's definitely more flexible on the computer, but it's not useless on the phone. It just requires you to add the image to your photo library, and once it is in Reminders, you can remove it from the library if you want.
And unfortunately that hasn't changed on iOS 18.
I learned the hard way that smart lists aren’t stand-alone lists of filtered tasks but a quasi-duplicate of existing postings. I mistakenly created a smart list of shows, tagging them with ‘#shows’, thinking I’d be able to just enter a new reminder with that tag and have it bounce only into the smartlist. Instead, it would go into the smart list AND into the default reminders list-and there is no deleting it from the default list without deleting it from the smarlist as well. Your video is most helpful, and in particular I am intending to use the columns feature for planning the school year curriculum with my colleagues. Fingers crossed!
Yes, smart lists are not actual lists. They are just saved searches. It's a good way to find things, but a lousy way to sort them. This is true of smart albums in photos, smart folders in notes, smart mailboxes in mail, and everywhere else they use the term "Smart". It is just a saved search, not an actual list, folder or album... so use them sparingly, and sort things using other methods as a primary form of organization instead.
Good luck with the columns and curriculum. Seems like a smart use of the app!
I enjoyed the tips. One thing I’ve found with smart lists is that I can’t share and collaborate them. Any workarounds? Or will iOS 18 allow this?
No workaround yet, because the contects of a smart list are really just a saved search... and if you share a search the other person will have different results.
My workaround is to just make it a standard list (which is shareable) rather than a smart list. In truth i only have one or two smart lists, but i have dozens and dozens of standard lists.
I think your channel would have a better chance if you didn’t put a big gigantic face in the middle of your video. Maybe voiceover?
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not a big fan of faceless TH-cam videos (there's always the question of whether a human created it or it was just automatic AI), but I will keep it in mind as I make future videos.
Excellent video. Learned a lot.
Was unable to figure out how to add tags to multiple items at once in column view on the Mac. I was able to select the items in the column view without a problem, but when I tried to add tags by either using the control or command keys, it just reverts to selecting one item.
Once you have all the reminders selected you can right click on them to select a tag, or drag all of the selected tasks onto one of the existing tags on the left.
Great video! So glad to learn that Notes is where uncatergorized notes go. Now mine is empty and I feel like I'm smarter with notes
Awesome, it can be confusing because as usual Apple doesn’t name things in a very intuitive way, and doesn’t tell anybody how to use their software.
Glad it helped, glad you found me, thanks for watching.
I love Reminders (thanks to you Dylan). And I love it even more now that I'm using the power tips you've taught me that you call out in this video. Love your faux Brit accent/invitation at the end. ~Cindy
You're so welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. The "invitiation" section made me laugh out loud, so I had to include it.
Simple and Great video ,many things here to learn …❤❤ .Many Thanks and keep making videos .
Thanks for the appreciation. More videos to come… Thanks for watching!
Great uses of the reminder app. I won’t be using them all, but i like the sharing and collaborating aspect.
Glad it was helpful! Thans for watching!
Thank you. I am glad I found your channel. I appreciate the content. My reminders is going to be even better.
You got this! I can't waut to hear about how much more you are able to accomplish once you hone this skill.
Thanks! Using the add section also made my packing list improved and then your guidance to make that packing list also template💡
Great job! Glad it was helpful!
Wow I really need to organized my entire personal professional life w Reminders
Fantastic video
You can do it! Just takes time and focus!!! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this video! There are so much new ideas and tricks I learnt from this video!
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. But view as columns doesn’t work on iPad, does it?
As long as you are on iPadOS 17 or later it does. You click the three dots and select view as columns. In fact, they look GREAT on the iPad.
Wow, this was really great! First time on your channel and now new sub. Well done!
Welcome to the Academy! Glad to have you here. What kind of Apple tips are you interested in learning?
Question - I have a lot of tasks in a legacy app (Microsoft To-Do) that I’d like to migrate to Reminders. Is there an easy way to upload them to avoids duplicate data entry?
You can add you Microsoft account and sync reminders, they’ll just show up there and you can manage them from here moving forward, maybe move them to an iCloud synced list and disable the reminders sync to clean things up, but absolutely doable! 😊
@Zehph has a great suggestion. You should be able to sync them into reminders and then move them over. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to import them other than that, so hopefully that will work for you... otherwise, I hope you are really good at copy/paste....
That is a perfect solution! Thanks @zehph
Does it bother you that when you check off a reminder it stays on the screen for a ridiculous amount of time. It makes me feel slow.
I don’t mind it. Sometimes I click on it by mistake and it gives me a chance to fix it before it disappears into the completed pile. It also reminds me to be patient… Which is a virtue I always can be reminded about since I’d like to happen faster than it actually does.
lol interesting take
Amazing 🤩Useful Content🙏🏼
Thank you 🙌 Glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
Glad you liked it! Thank you!
thanks for your tips man!! hello from Brazil!!
Welcome! So glad to have you here!
Hi, good video. How do you do the “this week” list?
I just created a new list and called it "This week", then I made it my default list - nothing complicated.
What keeps happening to your right eye?
A stupid editing glitch. I’m going to look into what I can do to fix it tomorrow morning. I may be stuck with it for this video unless I want to re-upload the whole thing.
Sync with calendar
I'm not sure I understand? Is that a question or a statement?
@@TheMacWhisperer oh , can we sync it with the calendar app?
There are many 3rd party apps that do. (I use one called BusyCal which is a part of the SetApp subscription I recommend to all my clients). But in the next operating systems Apple will release in September (iOS 18, iPadOS 18, MacOS 15) Apple will automatically integrate the reminders into the Calendar.
Until then if you are interested in checking out BusyCal or other great apps you can try out SetApp here: setapp.sjv.io/c/4102508/344537/5114
Really well presented tips!
Glad you enjoyed it! Let me know if there's any topic you'd like me to cover in the future.
Thank you Sir! 😀
Absolutely my pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Totally useless info
Thanks for taking the time to share that comment. Thankfully thousands of other users didn't seem to feel the same way.