I have the firm conviction that it is Apple's most undervalued application. In fact, I ignored her and I looked for alternatives to her for years until two years ago, by the hand of iOS 17, I started to tighten it and is now irreplaceable. You might as well use it even on Android, although it is not officially available in these mobiles.
I refer to Native application of “reminders”Whoever is already standard with each iPhone and that, although it is simple, not only is his mission achieved, but has many incentives to be my favorite. Even artificial intelligence (even if you don't say much).
Everything I manage in the “Reminders” application
To put you in context, I have a problem: my bad memory. Or rather, my selective memory. I remember an anecdote that I lived in 2006 with only 12 years, but I do not remember what I had breakfast today. Under this hanger, one day I opted for Plan practically all my life. From the most crucial to the most every day
In “reminders” Five lists different, each with their own reason for being:
- Food: I already said some time ago that my tip on the shopping list continues to make me a daily menu where I will eat and dine every day. So I never lack an ingredient and I have not left myself, so I don't waste anything. In this list on the blocking of this menu.
- Buy: I will stop in the next section to talk about this specific list, but I don't think it is necessary to explain a lot for what it is. It is just for what you think: add elements that then buy in the supermarket.
- Newspapers: All types of reminders, with a more or less frequency, are repeated on a certain date. To remember my medication at certain times every day until I cut my hair or send an invoice.
- Sporadic: Punctual reminders that arise at a given time. For example, if I am in the street and see that it will rain, I write the clothes of the clothes rope when I come home. Or if I have a meeting for which I have to prepare something, I write a few hours before starting these preparations.
- Subscriptions: In full era of subscriptions, there are few. And as almost all are divided, I have a section in which to remember each month of manufacturing a bizum to other people with whom I share it (or vice versa, remind me that they must pay me those I manage).
An AI for which there is no need for Apple intelligence
We already know that Apple Intelligence is very limited in terms of compatibility, but that “reminders” have intelligent functions for which there is no more compatibility than iOS 17. That is to say have an iPhone XS or a later model (including the iPhone XR) that you can have it.
These AI functions move to the Creation of purchase lists. It seems a little minor, but it's really a thank you and especially if you want to save yourself a thousand laps for the supermarket corridors. To do this, you must configure it previously, create a new list or edit what you had already created for these purposes.
In the list options (the three -point icon in the upper right corner), you must give “list information” and, in “list type”, Select the “Buy” option. Then you will have to press “OK” and you will no longer have to do anything other than add items to your purchase list.
In this way, you will see that The elements are grouped in the list, automatically divided by sections: Dairy, fruits and vegetables, meat, candies … There are some that do not end up recognizing, like those we know for a brand (“bimbo”, “albal” paper, “kleenex”, etc.), but in general, it works very well.
Location reminders are fascinating
When you're reviewing the sporadic recall section, I could not be better Demonstration of the capacity of this application. In Apple's “reminders”, we can not only configure notifications for a certain date and a certain date, but also when we are in a certain place like our house.
This function gives a lot. Beyond the recall to remove the clothes that lie when I get home, more than one opportunity, my bad head played the bad pass to visit a friend for whom I have a gift and forget to get him out of the car. Well, with the application, I can configure this when I arrive where we stayed, I remember that I have to give him the gift.
Examples like these would have so far. And although it may seem a little less, believe me if I tell you that Sometimes they are infinitely more practical than those who have a date and an hour. Especially when it is for something in the long term and I don't know exactly when I go to a site. Example? Well, a few months ago, the Webedia administration kept one thing in the office and as a telework, I did not know when I physically go there, so I set up a reminder so that when I entered the office, I jumped the recall. And it worked!
Why this application and no others
There are many tasks and productivity applications. And very well, in fact, exceeding in certain elements “reminders”. However, I end up preferring the native for a very simple problem: His good harmony with apple ecosystem. Far from the subjects, I will tell you why.
There is a function as simple as it is effective: Siri. Yes, I know that the Apple assistant is in a fall layer and more after delaying its improvements with the AI. However, it works perfectly to Add tasks or items to the purchase list Without complicating our lives.
Everything goes through a “Hey Siri” followed by the instruction. And it works on both the iPhone and In the Apple Watch. Precisely in the latter, it is the one that I find a greater utility, because I often find situations in which I do not have the iPhone in hand to write the annotation. For example, when I am in full cooked and I see that there are few ingredients of something. In this case, it is as simple as tightening the watch crown and telling Siri to add this ingredient.
In any case, Reminders '' have improved a lot in recent years. See as an example his new way of ordering sections and / or columns lists in the “Trello” style, which is distinguished to allow more complete and better organized projects of projects and that, although I do not actively use it, it is ultimately good for me to organize certain projects.
And how to transport Android's “reminders”?
As I said in the introduction, this application is not available as such for Android. Do not look for it in the Google Play Store or in other standards. THE The only way to access it is with the browservia the iCloud website.
On the aforementioned website, you must connect with our Apple account and once we see that we have access to applications such as “notes”, “pages”, “iCloud Drive” and many others among which, of course, there are “reminders”.
Already notice that It is not the most optimal way to use this application, although the only one outside the Apple ecosystem. In my case, when I use Android, it is temporarily because I analyze a device with this system and, although I prioritize the use of its own applications, I resort to “ Reminders '' of Apple to consult certain tasks.
A form of Facilitate access In order not to have to write the UR, it involves adding direct access to the mobile start screen. Visually, it is not the most beautiful, but allows you to access quickly and without having to connect, although for the latter, you must have chosen this option not to close the first time.
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