How to Organize Your To-Dos with Apple Reminders

If you use Apple Reminders to organize your to-dos, how should you set it up? Here’s how I’d do it. I demonstrate on the Mac, but this works on iPhone or iPad too.

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[michael_harren]

I am bowing down and thanking the Gods of the YouTube algorithm for showing me this video. So very helpful! Thanks for your work!

[DocteurChouchou]

The best 15 mins about productivity of my life! Simple yet complete and right to the point

[scotstevig]

13:47 Thank you for using concrete steps and encouraging your viewers (me) to set things up exactly as you have yours. When someone does this, I learn the material much faster, and by the end of watching this video I have something extremely useful and relevant to my life that I can begin using today!

[Quince]

Thank you for showing me that reminders can do so much more than I realized. As a chronic procrastinator I’m going to use what you said about lists and dates to boot me in the backside to get going on tasks and projects. Never rush up to a deadline again!

[lavenderlove]

Wow! Having ADHD, this has helped me get more organized with all my projects. Thank you!

[donnieherrington]

Every day, I am thankful for smart and creative people sharing their skills on platforms like this for me to learn from. Thanks a million for this!

[andricheli]

I do this by adding a bunch of lists to a group and then clicking on the group so that I can view all my lists within that group at once. It's another option for viewing tasks by section. But I've used this method too. I think this really demonstrates how flexible and powerful Apple Reminders is now!

[VincentForDesign]

Thank you so much! I did not only learned how to use the Apple Reminders better now with my tasks but also how to be more organized!

[CrBatGy]

immensely helpful for a person like me who wants to use apple reminders but doesn't know how to. Thank you very much mate!

[ruben]

I like this. I love the idea of the today view to add flagged. Easier to add deadline dates and worry about today tasks with flagged.

I work on some big projects that are usually year long so doing tasks with sub tasks is difficult for me. I create lists for my big projects, put them all in a folder called work projects. Once I complete the project I move it all into another folder called completed or archive. It makes it easier that way because within projects I have lots of tasks.

Also, another tip. I created another smart list that I pinned called anytime (similar to things 3). I. There I set to add all tasks without a date. This way I can go through tasks that I don’t have deadlines for and I can assign them when I am ready.

[gorefieldluvr]

I'm going through a period where I need to save money on food. This helped me make inventory of my pantry, fridge, and freezer, and add expiration dates to foods. This is gonna alleviate monthly planning so much, thank you!

[martinxfinn]

Just reorganised my entire reminders setup. Other than the Today smart list, I've changed flagged with an Urgent smart list (with flagged reminders). You've got a new subscriber for sure!

[Purnota]

Thankfully you are showing step by step process and shortcomings of every step.This was useful

[rokker]

Dude, that's it. I was struggling a bit with managing micro tasks and to keep them somehow organized. This helped a lot.

[danielremian]

clicked for a tutorial, went away with useful life tips. Best deal ever lol

[AA-pzgg]

Great video. One idea I got when watching this video - for templates, incase the ordering gets wrong, you can number the tasks, so when the ordering is wrong you can easily put all in the right order.

[AlejandroAlvarez-pqmi]

Thank you for taking the time to make this video! I just apply this to my life and work and it’s made my life so much more organized.

[vfinch]

Great video! I watched a number of objectively poor videos before stumbling across yours. You have done a good job of explaining the concepts, giving tips and tools and show examples. Thanks!

[Mubblz]

I just came across this as I was looking for a way to get organized and I am so grateful! Also in addition to the four pinned I added two more pinned lists for my morning routine and bedtime routine. I’m trying to eliminate the use of too many apps to do things that I can get done with just one. Thank you so much you really helped me figure this out and I’ll watch the other one next for sure. Thanks.

[maekloev]

Thanks a lot of putting all this information together. I wasn’t aware of all those features. Very handy - and great for productivity! 👏