Lists can be customized with new SF Symbols and emoji. Unfortunately, when you reorder the Smart Lists, the numbered keyboard shortcuts don’t update, meaning if you move ‘Assigned to Me’ from the bottom of the list (position 5) to the top (position 1), the keyboard shortcut for the list remains ⌘5. The View menu includes commands to jump to any of the Smart Lists using the keyboard shortcuts ⌘1 - ⌘5. Reminders has added a number of keyboard shortcuts too.

In addition to reordering Smart Lists, they can be hidden by right-clicking on the one you want to hide or going to the View menu.

People use Reminders in all sorts of different ways, so it makes perfect sense to allow greater customization of the app’s UI. Also, it’s turned off by default, but Reminders includes a new ‘Assigned to Me’ Smart List that can be displayed in the top section of the app’s sidebar, collecting your assignments.Īnother nice touch added to Reminders is the ability to reorder the Smart Lists at the top of the sidebar by dragging them to the position that suits you. Reminders lets you assign a task in a shared list to yourself or a person with whom you share the list, which can be accomplished at the time you create a task as depicted in the screenshot above, or by clicking the info button next to any task in a shared list. However, if you’ve decided in advance who is going to do something, it’s preferable to be able to assign the task. When coupled with iCloud sync, shared lists eliminate the need to constantly coordinate who has done what on a list. Shared lists are good for things like grocery lists that either of two people can complete. For example, that meant that if I kept a shared list with Federico for MacStories projects we work on together, there was no clear separation of who was responsible for each task. One of the things that frustrated me the most about Reminders in Catalina is that task lists could be shared but not assigned. I spent most of 2019 and part of 2020 using a combination of Reminders and GoodTask, which builds on the Reminders database of tasks, as my task management solution. What’s changed is that Apple has added several improvements to the app’s functionality that makes it an excellent task management choice for many users. The iconography has evolved with the introduction of SF Symbols 2, and buttons have shed their outlines, but the rest of the app’s main window is the same. On the surface, Reminders doesn’t look like it has changed much in Big Sur, but it has.

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