A text box where I can type a number, and a couple of check boxes that default to minutes but can be changed to hours with one click/tap.Īnyone else want this, or is it just me and my eccentric approach to to-do lists? Please take our poll and let us know in the comments. But minor annoyances you hit multiple times a day are more irritating than they should be, so I’d really love Apple to give me the option of a user-defined snooze time in addition to the presets. I’ve just said how easy it is to drag appointments around the calendar, so that’s what I end up doing.
Similarly, I can’t snooze a reminder for 45 minutes nor anything between two hours and 24 hours. But if I know I need ten minutes to finish what I’m doing, I can’t snooze the reminder for 10 minutes – only five or 15. So all scheduled times are estimates, and I rely on the snooze feature quite a lot. The quiet times are when I write opinion pieces, reviews and … feature requests.Ī news piece might take me 25 minutes to write if it’s short and sweet, or 45 minutes if it’s longer or there are lots of backlinks to include. Sometimes there’s a flurry of news earlier in the day but it gets quieter later. If there’s a lot happening, writing news pieces might keep me busy all day. The nature of my working day is somewhat unpredictable. I f I’m not quite ready, or need to finish something else first, I use the snooze feature to have the reminder pop up again a bit later.īut there’s one tiny little thing that bugs me about the snooze feature: it only offers me fixed delay options: The best thing about scheduling my tasks is I get calendar reminders when it’s time to tackle them. Even if I have to significantly revamp my plans, it takes just seconds to drag things to their new slots. I might have good intentions to do my accounts after work today, but then when it comes to it I can’t quite face it, or something else comes up – and it’s then trivial to drag it to a new time or a new day. Less urgent things might get shuffled around a little.
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Of course, you can assign dates and times to items in the Reminders app too, but using the calendar also means I can see visually how busy my day or week is in terms of tasks as well as appointments.Īn urgent task, that absolutely must be completed today? No problem: I schedule it for a free slot in today’s calendar. So all the tasks that some would put on a to-do list, I schedule in my calendar. It’s really useful to get reminded of something when I’m in the right place to action it – at home, at a shop and so on.īut for everything else, my calendar is my to-do list, for one simple reason …įor me, scheduling something is the one sure-fire method of ensuring it gets done. I do make very limited use of Apple’s Reminders app, but only for location-triggered ones. It’s never made sense to me to have a standalone list of things to do at some unspecified time, even if they can have pretty color coding and labels like Urgent, Priority and Today. I’ve never quite understood the concept of a to-do list.