My iOS5 update is complete. Reminders could become my favorite app. I bet I’m not alone. Who doesn’t need a location aware reminder?
So what’s up Apple? As far as I can tell I can only see the reminders in iCal, while I’m on my Mac, but I can’t create or edit reminders.
Bryan and I are avid students of the Apple’s UX magic. We know Apple thinks that often customers can’t tell you what they want until they see it. Nevertheless, did Apple really think I would be abandoning the desktop completely when engaging with a To Do list? I’m sure someone will find a way to make a To Do list work with all my devices, until then I’ll have to stick with Google Tasks; which is a weak To Do list but at least it works the same on all my devices).
Am I the only Apple fanboy who thinks that Apple didn’t really think through all the use cases for a To Do list ?
I thought I was missing a setting somewhere to make it sync w/ my calendar or some other app. Now I’m ready for someone to make an app so they all play nicely.
On my iPhone it syncs with Outlook. I created a task on the phone by clicking the + on the top right of the screen, adding some info and seconds later it was in my Outlook task list.
Jeffrey
While it can’t offer you the geo aware features of the IOS reminder, if you are using a stand alone task tracker you should check out my startup coming out of stealth; http://www.HubKick.com. Hubkick is an email companion that makes it easy to get more done using email.
Most of the things we need to do arrive in our inbox and most of the things we need to track that other people are doing for us begin with an email request. Applications like Reminders and Google Tasks require the user to recreate the task in a dedicated application its own UI.
HubKick allows users to send, forward or reply with any email to an @HubKick.com address, which automatically turn them into trackable actions in your activity stream. Hubkick is also a fully functional task and project management system that makes it easy to collaborate and requires no setup or configuration when you add another collaborator to a task.
Have you tried “Things”, Jeffrey?
I love it:
http://culturedcode.com/things/
Jeffrey, I share your hesitancy. “Reminders” is such a huge “Duh, why is an app like this just *now* becoming standard?” But in the last 2 days that I’ve been using it, I agree, I’m kind of underwhelmed.
Btw, how do you get Google Tasks on your iPhone?
I used GoTasks.
It is sometimes shocking how Apple does such wonderful things and then just misses a couple of them. I was looking all over for iReminder for the desktop and it is nowhere to be found. And how about iDisk and Gallery being removed from iCloud, so now if you want an online place for large files, including photos, you have to go somewhere else, I am now going back to Microsoft because their free Cloud allows for plenty of online storage that you can use like a drive, not just a rotating place where photos stay temporarily and can’t be accessed, edited, or used individually or in groups like professional photographers need (like myself). Also, they still call their CD/DVD (without any high-definition) the “Super Drive” after all these years. But, I still love this company and have so since OS 6. I just wish they would sometimes also listen to the users instead of just telling us.
I’m a little late to this thread — I found you because I was searching for ways to make reminders work better on my MBP. You actually *can* create new reminders (Command+K is the shortcut, or you can right-click on the Reminders pane). You can also edit reminders if you right-click and select Get Info. The truth is, however, that your post is dead on. It’s as if Apple has missed a pretty important use case. I love the ios5 Reminders app and the Siri integration is really handy but it feels downright clunky on my Mac.