Comments on: How to use Reminders on Mac, a complete user guide

By: Cliff Egel

Cliff Egel — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:40:07 +0000

Great article, but it leaves a question unanswered for me. I’m used to reminders on Yosemite. If I’m buried under a load of stuff and see the reminder for Task X pop up- and I don’t need any more that minute, I can just quickly scratch it and forget it until the next day, when the annoying thing will pop up again- every day until I either reschedule it or actually take care of it, which is fine.

But this new version seems to bury undone items unless you actively seek them out or manually set them to reappear after a set interval (if I understand correctly). All the bells and whistles are just fine if you like those things, but I am busy and I need in-your-face annoying banners every day until I take care of things. If this version won’t do that, it is of no use to me and I’d better start looking for something that will.

By: Dara Hogan

Dara Hogan — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 14:10:00 +0000

Hi AppleToolbox, great article on Reminders but it doesn’t answer my specific query. I used to be able to click on the Share icon in a Contact to set up a Reminder e.g. to call or mail that Contact. This functionality seems to have been removed but some of my old Reminders still retain the Contact icon from which I set them up originally. It’s so handy that I can’t believe Apple have taken it away? I’m on MacOS Big Sur 11.4 but this functionality was removed at least a year or two ago.

Thanks in advance, Dara.

By: Bruce Merchant

Bruce Merchant — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:49:20 +0000

Sorry, this is outdated – with 11.2.3 Big Sur, Apple removed the ability to snooze a reminder for optional times – now when you click Snooze, it only will snooze for 5 minutes and then bug you again. Not settable in Preferences. Another loss of functionality in an Apple “update”. :-((