Amaya Toman Apple's Reminders has great potential to become a useful task management tool, but it still lacks perfection. Those who expected that Apple would announce an update to its native Reminders along with macOS Mojave and iOS 12 at this year's WWDC, waited in vain. In particular, iPad owners have seen some interesting partial improvements over the past few years, but there has still not been a significant redesign of the application. Of course, the Apple App Store offers a number of really effective and feature-packed alternatives to Reminders, but many users would certainly welcome the opportunity to use the original application to the maximum.
Among the clear advantages of Reminders are, for example, support for the Siri voice assistant (for now, only those users who do not insist on Czech will appreciate it) or the ability to set notifications based on location. A bit worse is, for example, synchronization across Apple devices, which does not always happen automatically. What other features would make Reminders a perfect and indispensable productivity app?
Natural language support
Task management should ideally be a quick, simple and efficient process. One of the ways to such efficiency is, among other things, the support of natural language in the given application. But I only have Reminders in the version for macOS, not for iOS.
Email support
Productivity and GTD apps such as Todoist, Things or OmniFocus also offer the ability to forward emails as part of reminders, among others. On macOS, Reminders, Siri, and the Mail application work together perfectly, but you need to set up notifications for individual emails the moment they arrive – there is no default option to forward emails to the task list in Reminders.
Side dishes
There is still no option to assign attachments to individual tasks in Reminders for macOS and iOS. This significantly reduces the potential of using the application for work. Reminders could work great in cooperation with the apple platform iWork, thanks to which it would be possible to attach tables, classic text documents or even files in PDF format to reminders.
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Possibility of cooperation
One of the great features of Reminders is its excellent support for sharing lists. However, collaboration via Reminders would certainly be a little better if there was an option to share individual tasks, while the user (recipient) would decide for himself which of his lists to include the given task.
Expanded task options
The basis of apple Reminders are simple, classic to-do sheets with a list of tasks. However, many users would certainly welcome the possibility of adding additional "sub-tasks" to individual tasks with details related to the given items - for example, it would be possible to add a list of addresses to which a message needs to be sent to a reminder to send an important e-mail to colleagues send.
Finally
Reminders is by no means a useless, useless application. But with the help of a few minor improvements and better integration with other platforms, Apple could make them a popular, effective and widely used productivity tool. What do you think Reminders of Perfection is missing?
I use the comments and hope for further development. The app looks outdated and can sometimes get annoying.
In addition to the mentioned features, I would also like the possibility of multiple sub-tasks under one (project).
What do you mean by "Natural Language Support" please? Thanks for the reply.