20. Reminders

In This Chapter

Creating and Managing Reminders and Lists

Syncing Reminders

Reminders lets you create and manage to-do lists. You can add reminders to custom lists, assign them to future due dates, and mark them as completed to hide them from view.

Creating and Managing Reminders and Lists

You can manage your to-do lists and fine-tune reminders by using the Reminders controls . You can create multiple to-do lists to keep your work, personal, and other tasks separate. Reminders comes with two lists: Reminders for active reminders and Completed for finished tasks.

Reminders controls.

To add a reminder

1. Tap or tap the next empty item in the list.

2. Type a description for the reminder.

3. Tap Return.

To create a new list

1. Tap List > Edit > Create New List.

2. Type a description for the list.

3. Tap Done.

To manage your reminders and lists

• To fine-tune a reminder, tap it .

You can edit or delete a reminder, set its date and time, add notes, move it to a different list, and more.

• To switch among lists, tap List and then tap a list name. In List view, you can also tap Edit to reorder, delete, or rename lists. (You can’t edit or delete the Completed list, which shows reminders that you’ve marked as completed.)

• You can search for reminders from the Home screen. (See “Searching Your iPad” in Chapter 2.)

• To make reminders appear as notifications, tap Settings > Notifications > Reminders > Notifications Center > On. (For details, see “Getting Notifications” in Chapter 4.)

• To play audio alerts, tap Settings > General > Sounds > Reminder Alerts.

Syncing Reminders

When you have multiple devices, you can use iCloud to sync your reminders across them. Update your to-do lists in one place, and see your changes everywhere. For details, see “Using iCloud” in Chapter 4.

To sync your reminders across all your computers and iDevices

• Tap Settings > iCloud > Reminders > On.

To sync past reminders

• Tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Sync (below Reminders).