I know task management has been discussed to death, but I think the new Reminders features are really significant.
With the release of the new Calendars and Reminders integration, I’ve decided to make the switch from OmniFocus. I typically work in the forecast view, and the new calendar integration allows me to manage my tasks in the same way, with the advantage of a much more beautiful interface (IMHO).
The ability to drag and drop tasks in a calendar view is a the feature that was keeping me in OF, and Apple’s implementation suits my workflow perfectly. I also appreciate that I can finally manage tasks on my Apple Watch. With OmniFocus, the sync on the Watch was too slow to be practical, so I always had to rely on Reminders for tasks like shopping. Having everything consolidated into one task management app is a huge improvement.
Another big advantage is the improved Siri integration, along with the upcoming Apple Intelligence features. I want to be ready to use those new capabilities as soon as they’re available, and I expect Apple’s native apps will be the first to fully support them.
So far, I’m really enjoying the new interface—it’s more intuitive than OmniFocus—and Apple has finally made these apps mature enough for my needs. I’m planning to stick with this setup going forward.
I think there is still some work that can be done. Dragging from Reminders to Calendar creates a calendar event, it does not set the Reminder due date so you now have a Reminder and an Event for the same task. I find this confusing because Calendar can now show and even complete Reminders with a date and time. I guess the reason this is done this way is so that Calendar can block the time slot.
But all in all this is probably the best addition in macOS Sequoia or me!
I have never tried dragging between the apps, only inside the Calendar app. Dragging items between days works really well (like I used to in the OF Forecast). I can see this would be frustrating if your workflow is to drag between apps.
I agree. I moved across to Reminders a few months ago after years of using Things. The Reminders keyboard shortcut capabilities can’t hold a candle to Things, but otherwise the tighter integration, including now appearing in Calendar, is working well for me.
I keep everything in Reminders now, including the use of subtasks to track multi-task ‘projects’. Each work day I bring my daily plan into Llama Life as I enjoy the way it lets me plan durations and adjusts everything for me throughout the day.
Shoutout to @Bmosbacker for sharing all of his highs and lows of making the move across to Reminders.
One related question - in Reminders macOS, can I really not select multiple reminders and set the deadline to a specific date all at once? I have to do them individually? I can easily do them all at once on iOS…
Cheers. Yeah that is the way I do it too. To be honest, I guess my main use cases for doing bulk changes are to move things to tomorrow if they’re not complete or, on a Friday, move work tasks to the Monday. So the available options probably do the job anyway.
