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They do focus on them. Reminders has had loads of updates in recent years: it's actually a pretty good todo app these days. Mail is updated every year with new

by Veen 4y ago

They do focus on them. Reminders has had loads of updates in recent years: it's actually a pretty good todo app these days. Mail is updated every year with new features. Messages is key to Apple's services push, and get a massive amount of attention. Calendar and contacts remain a bit crap though.

hbn 4y ago
Reminders was one of the biggest improvements when I moved from Android to iOS. I don't know why Google is so bad at reminders, and maybe it's different now but for years there were various implementations of reminders across multiple apps and services. They sometimes seemed to sync but it didn't seem consistent, and they had different feature sets. It never felt like there was a centralized hub for reminders, it was always just tucked off into ugly sub-menus in various apps and would occasionally move around. I think I used to mainly set reminders from a Google search, where if you phrased the query as a reminder you'd get a little widget at the top of the result with a pre-filled reminder, and you'd click the check to add it. But then at some point they broke that and I can't remember if they ever fixed it. Not to mention the outages that seemed to be not uncommon[1]. Apple's reminders feel like a godsend by comparison. It does exactly what it needs to, and syncs flawlessly between my phone and Macs. I can set reminders through Siri, and it even has a really intuitive way of setting date/time for reminders, where you just type, e.g. "tomorrow 5pm" and it'll highlight the text and give you a suggestion to make the reminder happen then, you click it and it yanks the text out and populates the appropriate time. You can even set reminders to appear when you're messaging a certain contact, and it'll appear within the Messages app in that contact's conversation. And it got even better with the new lockscreen widgets in iOS16, where I can see my reminders for the day front-and-center on my lockscreen. I gotta give props to Apple for their reminders system, cause I didn't even have any sort of expectations in the first place, but it's continually impressed me and become a consistent part of my daily routines. [1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/11/reminders-via-google-search-are-broken-again-again/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/11/reminders-via-googl...

by Veen 4y ago

hbn 4y ago

Reminders was one of the biggest improvements when I moved from Android to iOS. I don't know why Google is so bad at reminders, and maybe it's different now but for years there were various implementations of reminders across multiple apps and services. They sometimes seemed to sync but it didn't seem consistent, and they had different feature sets. It never felt like there was a centralized hub for reminders, it was always just tucked off into ugly sub-menus in various apps and would occasionally move around. I think I used to mainly set reminders from a Google search, where if you phrased the query as a reminder you'd get a little widget at the top of the result with a pre-filled reminder, and you'd click the check to add it. But then at some point they broke that and I can't remember if they ever fixed it. Not to mention the outages that seemed to be not uncommon[1]. Apple's reminders feel like a godsend by comparison. It does exactly what it needs to, and syncs flawlessly between my phone and Macs. I can set reminders through Siri, and it even has a really intuitive way of setting date/time for reminders, where you just type, e.g. "tomorrow 5pm" and it'll highlight the text and give you a suggestion to make the reminder happen then, you click it and it yanks the text out and populates the appropriate time. You can even set reminders to appear when you're messaging a certain contact, and it'll appear within the Messages app in that contact's conversation. And it got even better with the new lockscreen widgets in iOS16, where I can see my reminders for the day front-and-center on my lockscreen. I gotta give props to Apple for their reminders system, cause I didn't even have any sort of expectations in the first place, but it's continually impressed me and become a consistent part of my daily routines. [1] https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/11/reminders-via-google-search-are-broken-again-again/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/07/11/reminders-via-googl...