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Long-time Apple Reminders user here. I love how simple and native it is. But I always found myself jumping between Reminders, Calendar, and Notes just to plan my day.
So I built Planote – an app that brings calendar, tasks, and notes together in one clean view.
The best part? It syncs with your existing Apple Reminders. Turn it on in Settings, and your reminders show up right alongside your calendar events and notes.
What Planote adds on top of Reminders:
It’s not meant to replace Reminders. It’s meant to make it more powerful by adding context around it.
If you’ve ever wished for a way to see your reminders next to your calendar and notes, this might be worth a look.
Would love to hear your thoughts.
Full disclosure: this is my own app (Complete), so this is self-promotion. But I'm posting it here specifically because several features came straight out of threads in this subreddit, and I'd rather share it with the people who actually asked for them.
It's not a replacement for Apple Reminders, it reads and writes your actual Apple reminders (EventKit). The reminders themselves stay in iCloud and in Apple's own app; the smart features (repeat-after-completion, defer, etc.) are a layer Complete adds on top. It just adds the things people here keep wishing for
Local-first, no account, no server, no tracking. Free 7-day trial, then a one-time unlock, no subscription.
Genuinely curious what's still missing for you. This sub has been my best source of ideas so far.
Link to App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/complete-reminders/id6776008027
Hi everyone,
Made an app called Karm mostly for myself, I kept starting the day with a task list, missing half of it, and just losing track by next day. Wanted something that carries the leftover stuff forward automatically instead of me re-typing it or feeling bad and abandoning the list.
Core idea: undone tasks auto-carry to today (you set the delay), streaks track consecutive days you complete something, and a home screen widget shows the list without opening the app.
Completely local, no internet required, no signup or login. Your data stays on your device.
Figured other people procrastinating/forgetting tasks might find it useful too.
App Store: Karm
Google Play: Karm
Curious what others think, does auto-carryover feel helpful or nagging? Anything confusing or missing?
Cheers,
Karm
Has anyone else experienced an issue where Reminder tags stay persistent even after all the reminders associated with them are gone from the main list, completed, and recently deleted?
They won't even delete when I try to remove them manually.
Any advice or fixes would be appreciated!
Is there any way to add actually active tags completely handsfree through Siri? I recently set up some new work flows by filtering my to-do through SmartList categories( admin, follow up, invoice, estimate, deep work, etc). This allows me to focus on one particular category of work at a time and works well. The problem I’m having is that, in order for a particular reminder to land in the appropriate list/s, tags have to be added to the reminder and I, 98% of the time, add my Reminders through Siri. Siri doesn’t seem to be able to add active tags. E.g. “remind me to review the photos and send the estimate to jones hashtag followup hashtag estimate” which creates the reminder: “review the photos and send the estimate to jones #followup #estimate”
But those tags aren’t active. They don’t filter the reminder into a list. They are just text in the reminder itself. In order to create active tags I have to tap on the preview of the reminder to open reminders app then add the tags manually (which at this point can be done by dictating “hashtag followup”)
But since I’m often setting these reminders while driving or while otherwise occupied with my phone in my pocket, this extra step is a workflow killer.
I was curious about to know the location base reminders actually helpful feature. How it's help you or just a over engineering feature. Please share you thoughts and if it helpful then share your story please
After years of filling my phone with voice notes and screenshots, I noticed the problem wasn't capturing ideas.
It was actually doing something with them later.
I'd record things like:
"Remind me to send the invoice tomorrow at 10."
"Schedule a meeting with Mark next Friday."
"Buy cat food and book a dentist appointment."
Then they'd sit in a folder and eventually get forgotten.
So over the last few months, I built WhisperAct — and today I'm celebrating the launch of my very first app. 🎉
You just speak naturally, and the app turns your words into reminders, tasks, and calendar events automatically.
A few things I intentionally did differently:
• No account required
• Uses native Apple Reminders & Calendar
• Supports multiple languages
• Works offline when needed (accuracy may vary)
I'm looking for honest feedback from iPhone users.
What would stop you from using something like this?
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/whisperact-voice-task-planner/id6776684339
Website: https://whisperact.com
Apple Reminders has become a pretty mature to-do/task manager app. But there's always room for improvement. So what's the one feature or improvement you'd like to see in Apple Reminders?
I’m mostly a Things 3 user but love Reminders for shared lists with my wife such as groceries and packing lists. The location, CarPlay, messaging triggers are all fantastic.
The one thing that might fully pull me over is task durations/end times. Does anyone know why Apple hasn’t implemented this?
I like that Reminders have been able to appear on your calendar the past couple years. But they are always 30 minutes. Which leaves Reminders tantalizingly shy of being able to time block. Some tasks are 30 min but some are 15 and others are 60 or 90.
I’m curious if there’s an obvious software difficulty that’s preventing Apple from doing this? Or do they just need view it as a priority? Maybe I’m alone in this.
Just launched AI Reminder Pro on the App Store and looking for honest feedback.
The core idea: voice isn't a feature — it's the whole platform. Speak naturally and the app handles the rest.
"Do Walmart shopping Saturday morning" → opens your grocery template, surfaces your Favorites from past trips, schedules the reminder
"Remind me to call Dr. Smith next Tuesday at 2pm" → doctor visit reminder, clinic phone tappable directly from the card
"Walk the dog every morning at 7" → daily recurring task, set in one sentence
Other things it does:
- Daily Briefing — reads your day aloud each morning through AirPods (overdue first, then today)
- Receipt scanning — snap a photo, grocery catalog builds itself
- Smart home screen — Overdue / Today / Next 2 Weeks grouped automatically
- Calendar view — day, week, month with reminder dots
- Hearing-aid friendly — audio routes to Bluetooth hearing aids and Airpods by default (rare in reminder apps)
Free, no account, all data on your device.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/ai-reminder-pro/id6763922421
Genuinely open to feedback — what's missing, what's confusing, what works.
Hi.
Hope this is the right place to get assistance.
I have been using Thinsg3 since five years or so. Before that I used 2Do-which had major issues back then.
Since I am moving away from third party apps and try to use as many of the Apple built in solutions as possible - Passwords instead of 1Password, Notes instead of any of the myriad and so on.
As for Reminders I find a lot of pluses in it for me, mostly
What I find annoying with Reminders is:
The notes section, where you can't close the note but you see it all the time. So if you have a long note it needs a lot of scrolling. One solution I am trying now is to actually put all the notes in - you guessed it - Notes. And then link that note to Reminders.
The plus with Things3 is in my mind:
I am not using the GTD system. Since I didn't really understand it. I just ended up with a long list of unfinished tasks.
The way I hope I will manage to use Reminders is to make me actually do the important stuff and not have a zillion tasks in the Today-list.
This is my plan:
I just can't leave Things3 because of the Due date/Deadline. But there MUST be a way to solve that issue? Maybe just put a deadline in the Calendar, and add it as a part of the task title (send to editor, deadline 30 May). Or how would you solve it?
Other wise I think Reminders will fit me better since I don't use GTD- if anything I probably more use a confused version of PARA.
Thanks for any help.
/TA
I’ve tried Trello, Obsidian, Notion, Lark, but none lasted long. Now I think maybe the iOS Reminders app alone is good enough. Complexity harms productivity.
Though I think few people use only the Reminders app. Do you do?
I travel for work. I also take daily medications, and have set reminders for when to take them. The problem is I want the reminders to trigger at the same local time, but instead they trigger at the set time in my home time zone.
Example: I have a reminder to take medication at 7am. I want that to remind me at 7am in whatever time zone I'm in. If I'm in the west, I want it to remind me at 7am PST. If I'm in the east, 7am EST. If I'm in Belgium, I want it to remind me at 7am Belgium time.
What I get, it 7am EST no mater where I am. 7am on the east coast. 4am on the west coast. 1pm in Belgium. This makes it very hard to keep to a schedule.
Is there a way to create a reminder that is time zone agnostic? I need it trigger at the same local time, no matter where I am.