iPad Tips for Seniors How to Use Reminders the Easy Way!

If you'd like to learn a simple yet powerful way to plan out the things you need to do each week, then this video is for you. There are many ways to plan out your week. In this video I show you my planning process using Apple Reminders.

If you'd like to skip around the video, here are the chapter markers:
Intro: 0:00
Create and Pin Weekday Lists: 2:02
Create tasks from Apple Notes prompts: 3:51
Add appointment tasks from Apple Calendar: 4:48
Create tasks with Apple Mail: 5:47
Prioritize Your Tasks: 6:30
Allocate all your tasks: 7:21

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[billsemmendinger]

Thanks Rich, I enjoy your videos very much! Although I consider myself pretty much a tech person (over 20 years in IT) I still learn from your video.

[djgdroid]

Rich, I can’t thank you enough for this tip, I literally use it every day! You have made my transition from android to Apple much easier

[_jaber]

I’m not a senior and I still learn from your videos. I appreciate your content.

[Teresa-K]

Hi Rich,
Thanks for the in-depth tutorial on how to arrange your appointments/tasks in reminders. Great idea to set-up your weekly schedule in reminders. I enjoy your videos and I gain tips on how to use the features of the iPad and iPhone. Kindness, Teresa

[davidyohman]

Another excellent, useful video on using Apple apps to improve my time management and making my life less stressful. Thank. you Rich. We need a “deep dive” into Notes next!

[lindadaly]

Thanks Linda all your help, how do I restart all the apps, please show how restart!!!

[shaozhexue]

That is a really smart case with Reminders, it helped me a lot! thx, Rich! From China

[jimgrant]

Rich, very nice video. You explained your method(s) very well.

However, your method doubles the amount of time you spend managing your tasks when you put them in both your Calendar app and your Reminders app. I don’t see the advantage of doing both.

I use a basic strategy. If a task/event needs to be done on a specific day, then I put it on my Calendar. Otherwise, it immediately goes in Reminders. I’d suggest you eliminate that part of your “prioritizing” process which moves items from your “Inbox” to a specific day.

The way I avoid that extra work is to create lists which are “topic” oriented. They have names like family, cars, computer, gardening, and medical. I find it helpful to look at tasks about a common topic together when I prioritize them. It is common that the tasks for a particular topic are not independent and sequence is important.

I also use the “Tags” feature of the Reminders app. I have a tag named “PlannedForToday”. One named “Hot”. Then, I use the “Smart List” feature of Reminders that shows a list of tasks for a specific tag.

When I receive or create a new task and I don’t have time to prioritize and tag it, I put it into a list named “InBox”. Then, when I get a chance, I will prioritize it, tag it, and move it to the appropriate topic list, all of which I can quickly do with the touch pad.

I hope you feel some of this is helpful.

[lindaclarke]

Hi Rich. Sorry to be a pest but need a wee bit of help. I love this video and want to do the split screen shortcut for the 2 versions of Reminders. I am happy with creating a split screen shortcut but couldn’t get it to work for Reminders. Hope this makes sense.
Im new to all this and find your videos extremely helpful. Best wishes from Bonnie Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[wholovestrees]

I’m going to replay this again and again until I have it set up. Right now, I have a mishmash list of reminders and when I’m looking for something for a certain day, I have to go into that list or look on my calendar. This system seems much better.

[brokenjac]

6:06 Rich, just wanted to let you know that you could highlight the text in the email that you ended up typing into Reminders and, instead, tap "Send to..." and pick the Reminders app as the destination to pop it into a new reminder. Works on iPhone too. Thanks for the great videos!

[richdiorio]

Your videos are very helpful! I find the reminder app very confusing, all these categories link today, scheduled, all flagged - not sure how it all works. Do you have a video that explains this better? Thanks

[Trackhoe]

Great video quick question for you

Once you add to your list from your email what do you do with that email ? Trash? Archive? Etc

Thanks in advance

[MarcP]

What do you do if a reminder is a future recurring date not current week? For instance “pay real estate taxes end of every month”

Plus can your set up be done on the iPhone as easily as the iPad?

[hov]

Rich I’m having a little trouble adjusting to the new reminders iOS 16 .Mostly because I’m new.I thought I was getting the hang of it, but not. I find myself in the middle of it, get frustrated, and just start tapping on different things only to dig a deeper hole for myself.Anyway, what do you think I should do?

[shaozhexue]

Hi Rich, one more question, how to get the widget in 5:47?

[johnkinsfather]

Rich I have calendar &notes but nothing called reminders. Is that an app I need to download?

[ceafva]

Wonderful; question though, does these reminders show up on Echo Dot/Alexa? Or do they show up in Google/Windows 11?

[rogeroforlando]

Rich, what is PAGES and when is it good to use and does it have formatting that NOTES does not have. How is it better or more appropriate than NOTES???

[hov]

Very helpful, , I’m new with the iPad 9 generation. I just switched from android galaxy, and I didn’t learn a lot from that outdated tablet. Please, I need help with things like finding videos from YouTube after setting up watch later. I know how to create a name for the video, but referencing them later is difficult to find. And I still need more help with the Reminders app and I don’t know how to use or set up folders in the folders app. Thanks for your help, I just found your video channel today. I guess I need help with navigating and organizing everything on the iPad 9. I’ve been using this iPad every day for 2 months and I keep hitting stumbling blocks. It’s more of a learning curve than I expected.But I won’t give up.The next thing soon I’m getting an iPhone, so I’m trying to learn as much as I can before I decide on which iPhone.Thanks again and GOD Bless You.