Notes vs Reminders Which should you use?

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📝 Notes vs. Reminders: The Ultimate Showdown! 🖥️

Hey MacWhisperer Fam! Dylan Stewart here, your go-to MacWhisperer. It's time we finally answer the age-old question: Should you use Notes or Reminders? Stick around and we'll find out!

In today's video, I'll compare these two powerful applications in five separate categories to help you decide when to use one versus the other. But don't slip out the back door before hearing my MacWhisperer Power Tip – it will make everything easier, regardless of which app you choose! 🙌

🔗 Timestamps:
[00:00:00] 📣 Intro
[00:00:43] ⚖️ Category 1: Ease of Use
[00:03:23] 📋 Category 2: Level of Detail
[00:05:55] 🔍 Category 3: Searching
[00:07:53] 🗂️ Category 4: Filing and Sorting
[00:10:50] 🚀 Category 5: Productivity
[00:14:38] 🏆 Conclusion: Who Won?
[00:16:38] 🌟 MacWhisperer Power Tip: Using Siri with Notes & Reminders

Key Takeaways:

⚖️ Ease of Use
Notes is incredibly simple and intuitive, earning 5 Steves. Reminders, while powerful, can be overwhelming for beginners, earning 2 Steves.

📋 Level of Detail
Notes allows for rich formatting, images, and secure notes, earning 5 Steves. Reminders excels in list management and collaboration, earning 4 Steves.

🔍 Searching
Notes shines with easy and effective search capabilities, earning 5 Steves. Reminders struggles with search, earning just half a Steve.

🗂️ Filing and Sorting
Notes offers folders and subfolders but requires manual organization, earning 3 Steves. Reminders automatically sorts tasks into lists, earning 5 Steves.

🚀 Productivity
Notes is great for quick to-do lists but falls short for complex projects, earning 1.5 Steves. Reminders excels in task management and collaboration, earning 5 Steves.

🌟 MacWhisperer Power Tip: Using Siri with Notes & Reminders
Siri enhances both apps significantly. Use Siri to quickly add reminders and notes, set location-based reminders, and even search for specific notes with ease.

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[andricheli]

For me these are two very different apps. Notes is for writing and making long lists and snipping information from various sources. Reminders is for task management and reminding yourself of things that need to be done at specific times.

[rhorchar]

Hi, thanks for the video and the distinctions. I created a table of contents in notes to find and open my notes quickly, works great.

[irfanam]

Well every heard of “Tags” its there both in notes and reminders. Also smart folders!

[cindyzippi]

It's Notes for me! I use it every single day, and it's very user friendly. I tried reminders and just never used it.

[gp]

I just discovered The MacWhisperer. Very, very useful.

[JERL-dx]

Good wrap up at the end of the video. Providing a short summary on the key points of each tool was helpful

[lorensims]

Fascinating!
I've been practically living in Notes for several years now. Folders just add more complexity than I want.
I've been using Reminders for specific tasks I want to remember to do, though I do have a problem with schedules like "the third Wednesday of every month." For tasks like this I create a Calendar event and manage it manually.
Or "ten minutes before sunset." I need to use a custom app for this one.
I recently hear of people keeping their grocery lists in Reminders which is just something I would have never even considered doing. Now I see how that could be useful, but I still keep my grocery list in Notes.

[juliesofonea]

Hi. Brilliant video. Still though wondering which is better for a day to day to do list. What do you think? And just learning how easy it is open quick notes and add notes. Takes time to put in areas. Is there a quick way with reminders?

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This video definitely deserves “100 Steve Jobs” 😉.
You out did yourself again. This was absolutely useful and excellently presented.
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[jamesashby]

You can create a reminder from a note by highlighting text in a note then using the share sheet. The resulting reminder includes a link to the note. Unfortunately the note does not have a link to the reminder.

[demodrift]

Thanks for this. But I've watched that hopping you give a tip of how to link a note to a reminder.

[mohammadd]

A few days ago, I discovered your channel and found it very helpful. Recently, I bought an iPad Air 2024 11-inch for education. I am not familiar with Apple products because I am an Android user. So, I request you to please make a series on "How to set up and use iPad for Beginners". For which purpose apps are used and how to use them as a student.

[dougdurham]

Good video, I was thinking it would be good to see you do the same type for reminders vs. calendar. That's where I struggle. Thanks for your time and efforts on the vids.

[carlharvey]

Thank you so much for this! Excellent video😊

[fdecca]

Love this comparison video!! Brilliant - I give it 5 STEVES!

[nathan]

Great video, thanks. I love both of these apps and would go as far as saying they are probably in my top 5 used apps. Add voice memos with these two and you have 3 FREE powerful productivity apps that are more than good enough for most people.

HOWEVER, one of the biggest flaws with  notes is the fact that you can’t recover previous versions of notes. This means if you accidentally delete part of a note then come out of it, when you go back into it, the deleted info is gone and you can’t get it back. (The option to ‘undo’ isn’t available once you come out of the note).

Other than that both excellent apps (IMO).

[chaskinsnc]

Should I list my Annual, quarter, weekly goals in Notes or Reminders? I overthink this issues with my daily and weekly

[RalphHueske]

Great video. Thanks for all the information. I look forward to more!

[irfanam]

Well you can only markup PDF or images in notes and not really the text that you type in the notes itself in this age it is a bit primitive.

[alejandrasedano]

Hello!! I don't know how to remove the reminders that repeat monthly such as: rent, mobile, etc. from my today's list. Do you know how to remove them and still have the reminder monthly?