The Reminders app is very handy.
But if you're new to Mac you may not have started using it yet.
So when you run Reminders you may get one of several different views here.
You can create multiple lists inside of Reminders.
In this view here I can use the dots at the bottom to go between them.
So I've got a list called Reminders.
A shopping list, an ideas list, and one called gifts.
I can more easily see what I've got if I go to View, Show Sidebar and then I can see them
all listed here on the left side.
I can jump to them.
If I look at Scheduled I'm basically seeing what upcoming reminders I've got.
To add a reminder I can hit the plus button here.
I can hit Command N or File New Reminder.
The list that is selected is the one the reminder will go into.
So I'll just the Reminders list called reminders.
I'll add something here like get mild.
But I can also add a time.
So I can say Get Milk today at 5 pm.
It actually translates the at 5 pm to today at 5:00 pm, an actual time.
If I hit I there I will get information and it will say this reminder is set for On a
Day and it has the specific time.
I can change that by clicking on it, so I can change it to 4, change it to 6.
I can change the date as you see there.
So I can edit it very easily.
Now it's important to realize that there are accounts that have to go through Reminders
because Reminders are something that work in the Cloud.
So if I go to Reminders, Accounts, it will jump to System Preferences where it shows
me I've got an iCloud account and in that iCloud account I can see I've got Reminders
turned on.
It is possible to have more than one type of account that uses Reminders.
So, for instance, having a gmail account with Reminders and also an iCloud account with
Reminders.
Notice on the left sidebar I see iCloud and I've got these four lists under iCloud.
So it's important to be aware of where the Reminders list is located.
Hopefully it's simple like it is for me and everything is just under iCloud.
Which means that these will sync to my iPhone and iPad just without any additional action
from me.
It just happens automatically.
So I'll get the reminder on my iPhone when I'm out today at 6:00 pm to pick up milk.
You can click to select any item in here and hit the Delete key to delete it.
You can check it off to show it's completed.
When you have a Reminders list that is empty you'll get 6 completed.
Show.
You can show all the completed items.
There are a lot of other cool options in here for reminders.
You don't have to use them for things that actually remind you of a specific time.
For instance my Ideas list is where I like to put ideas for future episodes for MacMost.
I can just list them here.
There's no deadline for any of them.
I can check them off when I do each episode.
So it's great for keeping ideas.
It's great for shopping lists.
It's great for reminders where you won't get an alarm but you don't want to add an item
to your calendar.
There's all sorts of functionality that you can do with Reminders and create new lists
very easily.
So create lists to categorize the items that you want to be either to do items or items
for ideas and other things.
Just play around with the Reminders app and see how you can use it for your tasks.
You can also use Siri with Reminders.
So in Reminders you want to set a Default list and then you can use Siri to add items.
Remind me to get milk.
Okay I'll remind you.
You can see it added it automatically.
Or I can have Siri add it to a specific list.
Add cookies to my Shopping List.
I got it in.
Now if I look at Shopping List there cookies has been added.