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Setting location reminders requires that the address be in your Contacts for someone. So forget just adding reminders for when you need to go to the store, or t

Setting location reminders requires that the address be in your Contacts for someone. So forget just adding reminders for when you need to go to the store, or the pharmacy, or whatever. Deleting reminders is no easy task either since they used swipe right to change lists instead of the usual pull up a delete button. Yup, the app is horrible.

masklinn 15y ago
> Setting location reminders requires that the address be in your Contacts for someone. So forget just adding reminders for when you need to go to the store, or the pharmacy, or whatever. It's perfectly possible to add companies (and places, aliased to companies) to your address book. So it works, but you have to tell it what your pharmacy is beforehand.
- shawnc 15y ago
  And honestly to expect it to know you're at a pharmacy or a store, is silly. This is very early in the game and you're already expecting it to perform as if it'd been in the market for years.
  - masklinn 15y ago
    As with TFA, I think ianstormtaylor was talking about doing so "manually" instead of via Siri: when trying to add a location to a task/reminder, Reminders does not provide some sort of text field for the address but asks you to pick a contact from your address book (it also gives you "fast access" to your current location and your home, but that's it). Worse, I think: it does not let you create a contact from the spot either so you have to get out of Reminders, open the phone/contacts app, create a new contact, then go back to reminders and select the contact you just created. That is painful.
    - ianstormtaylor 15y ago
      Yup, exactly. And being forced to goto Contacts just makes the whole thing hell. It could have easily been implemented by entering a location into a textfield accompanied by a map, the exact same way you enter "places" everywhere else on the device and the web.
      - shawnc 15y ago
        Ok. Both great points. And very true.
- ianstormtaylor 15y ago
  True, but I don't particularly want to have CVS and Safeway in my address book :p
smackfu 15y ago
This is really just another example of the "Siri-fication" of iOS 5. You wouldn't set a Siri reminder using a full address, so the Reminders app just doesn't accept it, even though it would be easy to type in an address manually.

masklinn 15y ago

> Setting location reminders requires that the address be in your Contacts for someone. So forget just adding reminders for when you need to go to the store, or the pharmacy, or whatever. It's perfectly possible to add companies (and places, aliased to companies) to your address book. So it works, but you have to tell it what your pharmacy is beforehand.

shawnc 15y ago
And honestly to expect it to know you're at a pharmacy or a store, is silly. This is very early in the game and you're already expecting it to perform as if it'd been in the market for years.
- masklinn 15y ago
  As with TFA, I think ianstormtaylor was talking about doing so "manually" instead of via Siri: when trying to add a location to a task/reminder, Reminders does not provide some sort of text field for the address but asks you to pick a contact from your address book (it also gives you "fast access" to your current location and your home, but that's it). Worse, I think: it does not let you create a contact from the spot either so you have to get out of Reminders, open the phone/contacts app, create a new contact, then go back to reminders and select the contact you just created. That is painful.
  - ianstormtaylor 15y ago
    Yup, exactly. And being forced to goto Contacts just makes the whole thing hell. It could have easily been implemented by entering a location into a textfield accompanied by a map, the exact same way you enter "places" everywhere else on the device and the web.
    - shawnc 15y ago
      Ok. Both great points. And very true.
ianstormtaylor 15y ago
True, but I don't particularly want to have CVS and Safeway in my address book :p

smackfu 15y ago

This is really just another example of the "Siri-fication" of iOS 5. You wouldn't set a Siri reminder using a full address, so the Reminders app just doesn't accept it, even though it would be easy to type in an address manually.