Hi
I want to create a Smart List in reminders which contains all reminders due this week (easy) AND all reminders wothoutut a date from a certain list. But it seems I can not add two conditions which reffer to Date? Is this true? Is there a way arounbd it (I thought using two indioviduyal smart lists and combine them in a third, but then I will run in the same problem)
Thanks.
macOS Sequoiya 18.0
WHY CAN’T THEY STANDARDISE THE VERSION NUMBERS!!! Obviously 15.0 and not 18.0… But this is Apples fault!
Yes, I was kind of surprised you cannot create more sophisticated conditions for smart lists… perhaps in macOS 18.0
This is the basis of what you need…
Create the two smart lists, one for each condition, but then combine them into a group, not a new smart list.
Once you have the two base smart lists, click on the ‘…’ at the top right of the screen and select Edit Lists
Click on Add Group
and then give the group a name and, in the Include section, select the two smart lists that you created.
Once back at the main Reminders screen, you will have a group that contains your two lists:
When you want to view the group, tap on the group icon:
…to see the group as a whole. If you tap on the expansion arrow at the right of the group name line, you will open the group to see the individual groups.
Hope this makes sense and helps.
This makes perfectly sense, and it will work.Great idea.
But I forgot to mention what I want to do with this combined set - feed it into the Reminder widget. Which unfortunately only can use lists. I think I will wait for macOS 18 then.
I use GoodTask for this single use case. It’s a shame a 3rd party app is needed for this one function, but it is. The list requirements you describe can be satisfied and you can display as a Widget.
GoodTask relies on the Reminders database, it does not create its own. For that reason (at least for me) I find it to be a useful add-on. I still have a single source of truth for reminders (Reminders) with all of the benefits that provides, yet a better visual front-end in GoodTask.
Edit: screenshot attached. This is an iOS screenshot, but it works the same way in the Mac version.
