Four New Features Coming to Apple Reminders and Notes

[MacRumors]

Four productivity improvements are coming to Apple Notes and Reminders in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26.

In Reminders, Apple Intelligence can now suggest relevant tasks and items automatically, such as to-dos pulled from emails or notes, or grocery items based on your habits and patterns. These suggestions are contextual, personalized, and designed to reduce the friction of capturing tasks manually.

Beyond that, Reminders can now intelligently organize your lists by automatically categorizing related tasks into grouped sections—such as separating groceries, errands, or work-related items—without the need for manual sorting.

One of the standout features coming to the Notes app is the ability to record phone conversations directly from the Phone app. These recordings are not only saved to Notes, but are also transcribed automatically, making it easy to reference or share a summary of the call later.

In addition, Apple is introducing support for Markdown export, allowing users to save notes as Markdown (.md) files for greater compatibility with third-party writing tools or for archiving notes in a clean, portable format. Previously, the only export format option was PDF.

Article Link: Four New Features Coming to Apple Reminders and Notes

 

[Robert.Walter]

So if someone tells me to GFY I’ll get a reminder so I don’t forget to do so?

That’s very thoughtful.

 

[iDento]

Reminders features needs more than two paragraphs! I can’t wait for a full review.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

markdown export of notes is the biggest feature of this release.

 

[spiggott]

+1 for Markdown

Anyone know if Markdown import will be supported?

 

[escargot3]

Recording phone calls with transcription into notes was already a feature of iOS 18. The transcribing part seems to be expanding to more countries though which is good.

 

[Siriosys]

Is it only me, or does that new colour-theme bring back traumatic memories of Windows Vista?

 

[Internaut]

+1 for Markdown

Anyone know if Markdown import will be supported?

It would seem rather silly to have one without the other.

 

[svish]

Have to try this out and see whether it is useful. Markdown support is welcome.

 

[verdi1987]

It doesn’t appear we can compose notes using Markdown, which is disappointing.

 

[.wojtek]

Can they fix reminders so it can properly sync with other servers? it usually works just fine but then it stops and one has to re-add the account...

 

[maxsquared]

Really I think the markdown compose notes feature is more important, so I can copy and paste my prompt outputs to notes, I am using Obsidian now, and it works ok, but if Apple Notes can do it, it would be great so I can just use that.

 

[JackNL]

markdown export of notes is the biggest feature of this release.

I hope we can do bulk export in markdown format – I would love a safe external backup in this format.

 

[Innovati0n]

I must be going crazy cause I swear the reminders app already did sort groceries

 

[Internaut]

It doesn’t appear we can compose notes using Markdown, which is disappointing.

Agreed. I don't think Apple Notes is dragging me away from Obsidian anytime soon.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

I hope we can do bulk export in markdown format – I would love a safe external backup in this format.

couldn't find a way for exporting multiple notes. it's one at a time. probably still need a third-party solution for that lol

 

[tonywalker23]

I knew there was a markdown rumor, but I still went ahead and bought iA Writer last week. I had a feeling it would not be a markdown editor feature. I was hoping for a bulk export to move notes into Writer but I guess the post above answers that.

 

[peterlandwalker]

Four productivity improvements are coming to Apple Notes and Reminders in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26.

In Reminders, Apple Intelligence can now suggest relevant tasks and items automatically, such as to-dos pulled from emails or notes, or grocery items based on your habits and patterns. These suggestions are contextual, personalized, and designed to reduce the friction of capturing tasks manually.

Beyond that, Reminders can now intelligently organize your lists by automatically categorizing related tasks into grouped sections—such as separating groceries, errands, or work-related items—without the need for manual sorting.

One of the standout features coming to the Notes app is the ability to record phone conversations directly from the Phone app. These recordings are not only saved to Notes, but are also transcribed automatically, making it easy to reference or share a summary of the call later.

In addition, Apple is introducing support for Markdown export, allowing users to save notes as Markdown (.md) files for greater compatibility with third-party writing tools or for archiving notes in a clean, portable format. Previously, the only export format option was PDF.

Article Link: Four New Features Coming to Apple Reminders and Notes

Still waiting for a custom reminder time interval on Calendar events

 

[MacGreenPath]

Exporting in Notes in markdown is great, but bulk export is what we really need. Bulk import would also be great. For now, the Exporter app for Mac allows me to bulk export my Notes.