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iOS 18 Rumor: Calendar App to Feature Integration With Reminders App
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i would love full reminders integration with third party apps. i can basically get there with shortcuts, but i want automation options that i don’t have to build babyyyyyyyyyyy 😜
I’ve always found it frustrating to have to try to decide what app to use for an event. There’s a lot of overlap in their uses that a single app would suffice if they put their minds to it.
About time.
In my case there's lots of overlap, and this would streamline it all.
In my case there's lots of overlap, and this would streamline it all.
There's a lot of things that you can do with Reminders that would be weird to add to calendars (planning things without specific dates attached, shopping, Paprika, document check sheets, etc.). It would add so much clutter.
What was needed was a way to have apps talk to each other and create functional calendar reminders without having to use Shortcuts work arounds. This sounds like it will help with this, so it's about time.
This is great news and long overdue. I would also like to be able to set focus modes based on my calendar events.
Make it happen apple!
Make it happen apple!
I would imagine the Calculator will have a Tape feature, which will actually be a Note, so you can go back and check each entry, hopefully even label them.
I'm a big fan of BusyCal. Integrates reminders directly with your calendars, and has more display options than you can shake a stick at (almost too many lol). At work I use it in a "week view" that excudes weekends and lets me see up to 3-4 full work weeks at a time. If you have the vertical real estate, it'll also show you an insane number of weeks (with event titles) in a gridded month view. I searched high and low and couldn't find another calendar app that will show this much time in one screen. Oh, and it's not a subscription.
Here's that month view:
Is it just me, or are these boring updates these boring updates the most important ones?
The biggest features I can name from iOS in the last few years are finally letting me use Firefox as my default browser, and when a text message with an auth code gets auto detected, not even the auto detection and filling it in an app, but the automatically marking that text message as read.
It's this little stuff actually makes my experience with the phone better.
Everything else is either silly things like emojis in more places or complicated AR things I never really use.
The biggest features I can name from iOS in the last few years are finally letting me use Firefox as my default browser, and when a text message with an auth code gets auto detected, not even the auto detection and filling it in an app, but the automatically marking that text message as read.
It's this little stuff actually makes my experience with the phone better.
Everything else is either silly things like emojis in more places or complicated AR things I never really use.
All these years with an iPhone and I still haven’t figured out how to use reminders, am I the only one? I’ve tried it so many times over the years and nothing works right, I’ve never got a location based reminder work, ever, the automatic grocery list thing? Has never worked, ever, probably the most useless app Apple has ever made other than that Freeform thing.
Another area where Android is light years ahead of Apple, and there’s lots of areas.
Another area where Android is light years ahead of Apple, and there’s lots of areas.
I really hope to one day use all stock Apple apps. Since Podcasts randomly adds hundreds of shows from years ago for no reason, I use Overcast. I've tinkered with moving from DayOne to a simply journal note in Notes. Since RSS support fled OS X a long time ago, I have Reeder.
But since my responsibilities are 90% what I need to get done and 10% where I need to be, my productivity needs are mostly tasks instead of events. For that reason Things 3 is perfect; I can enable the calendar to show in my Things lists, and I can see around 20-30 things to do each week with my 2-3 places to be each week.
I look fwd to seeing what this implementation looks like, but adding reminders with specific dates and tags is such a "long" process compared to Things. Also, reminders only has a reminder date and time whereas Things has start dates and the use-only-when-really-needed deadlines date.
Plus, Things is so beautifully designed—it reminds me of the joy I had 20 years ago when Apple was Aqua.
But since my responsibilities are 90% what I need to get done and 10% where I need to be, my productivity needs are mostly tasks instead of events. For that reason Things 3 is perfect; I can enable the calendar to show in my Things lists, and I can see around 20-30 things to do each week with my 2-3 places to be each week.
I look fwd to seeing what this implementation looks like, but adding reminders with specific dates and tags is such a "long" process compared to Things. Also, reminders only has a reminder date and time whereas Things has start dates and the use-only-when-really-needed deadlines date.
Plus, Things is so beautifully designed—it reminds me of the joy I had 20 years ago when Apple was Aqua.
Indeed, finally.
Its only when I've started using reminders and especially calendar more intensively, when I've realised how they overlap. Nowadays I see myself putting my reminders on both apps independently.
Maybe fuse both apps, but Apple could retain two separate apps that integrate between them much better.
While for over a decade most all of us have been doing that with Fantastical, never understood why Apple didn’t or offer natural language in Calendar iOS, since a reminder with a date is essentially a calendar item, just one is one that you have to check off to go away even if time passes other one goes away after the set time. Always assumed Apple would rather get a cut from Fantastical than offer natively. Calendar is still light years behind Fabtastical but excited to see this.
Uhhm… full circle moment anyone?
Apple iCal (precursor/earlier name of Calendar) on Mac OS X had a To-Do/Reminders feature…
Example in this YouTube video.
Apple iCal (precursor/earlier name of Calendar) on Mac OS X had a To-Do/Reminders feature…
Example in this YouTube video.
It sucks that this is your experience. I know it because this is what using Outlook for reminders is like for me. I cannot get it to work for the life of me.
Apple’s reminders has always worked for me. Location-based, date based, whatever.
Can somebody tell those homies, that the Lockdown Mode is unfinished ?
The CAL app is NOT encrypted, while the REM App is.
---------> 🤣 They don't know what they are doing anymore <-----------
The CAL app is NOT encrypted, while the REM App is.
---------> 🤣 They don't know what they are doing anymore <-----------
not often im happy to go back in time, but this is like getting Now Up to Date back from the 90s, great move.
Colored coded dots would be great. They could probably put up to 6 per day on the month view. Then I could at least see the difference between a birthday, holiday, or dr appt. A bunch of single grey dots tells me nothing more than something is there and I have to check each one until I find the doctor appt I scheduled 3-4 months ago or my aunt's birthday so I can figure out when to buy her present.
The Notes app and Calendar app are the ones that need integration.
The Reminders app not so much.
Typical Apple.
The Reminders app not so much.
Typical Apple.
Get rid of the Reminders app, and make the Calendar app work. It's so buggy with Siri.
"Set an event in 2 hours for _____"
When do you want me to schedule the event for?
"In two hours."
When do you want me to schedule the event for?
"In two hours!"
When do you want me to schedule the event for?
"Today, in two hours!"
Sets all day event.
Grrrr
"Set an event in 2 hours for _____"
When do you want me to schedule the event for?
"In two hours."
When do you want me to schedule the event for?
"In two hours!"
When do you want me to schedule the event for?
"Today, in two hours!"
Sets all day event.
Grrrr
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I think this looks great. I've been eyeing apps like Fantastical for some time especially for this reason. I just hope this does not make it overloaded.
I simply want to see, in my calendar, a list of to-do things for the week, things like that.
I simply want to see, in my calendar, a list of to-do things for the week, things like that.
Been using Fantastical for years because of this and the natural text entry. I would love to be able to go back to the native apps and save $40.
All I want is for the Calendar app to sync stuff and not delete my events.
Plot twist: those two apps will be merged in iOS only. iPad integration will come som in next ten years when Apple will figure out how to solve it.