Using the Reminders app on your Mac is the perfect way to never forget about an important meeting or event in your life. However, if you rely too much on the app, you probably have a lot of reminders sitting there waiting to be completed.
Sure, you could organize these reminders manually or make Smart Lists do it for you. Keep reading to find out how to organize your reminders with just a few clicks.
What Are Smart Lists?
As you can probably guess by the name, Smart List is a type of list you can use in the Reminders app. Usually, you can use lists to manually organize your reminders however you want.
With Smart Lists, on the other hand, you can set a certain number of filters or tags so the Reminders app organizes all your reminders for you.
That way, instead of searching for all your school reminders, you may filter the reminders with a “school” tag, and the Reminders app will automatically put all your school reminders in the same Smart List. It’s one of the bestways to make the most of Reminders.
How to Create a New Smart List on Your Mac
The best part about Smart Lists is that they’re super easy to create. All you need to do is follow these steps:
There are a lot of different filters you can use. If you want to add more filters, click theplus (+)button on the far right of the first filter. You can also click theminus (-)button to remove a filter.
you may choose filters likeDate,Time,Priority, orLocation. Play around with these settings until you create the Smart List that suits you.
How to Turn a Regular List Into a Smart List
Just like you may create a Smart List from scratch, you can also turn an existing list into a Smart List. The process is just as simple assetting up location alerts in Reminders.
And that’s it! Yes, the list doesn’t seem all that smart now, but you may change its filters byControl-clicking (right-clicking) the list on the sidebar and selectingShow Smart List Info. From there, you can change the filters and tags to whatever you want.
What to Do if You Can’t Create a Smart List
If this is your first time using Smart Lists, or the Reminders app on your Mac, you might not be able to create Smart Lists from the get-go.
We experienced the same problem but fixed it by allowing the Reminders app to access iCloud. So, after you’re donesetting up iCloud on your Mac, you should give access to Reminders by doing the following:
It might take a while, but Reminders should let you create Smart Lists, as we showed you before.
Organize Your Reminders the Easy Way
The Reminders app is filled with a bunch of cool features you’re able to use in your everyday life to boost your productivity. However, organizing all your reminders manually can be tricky.
If you don’t want to go through all that trouble, you may easily use Smart Lists to keep your app and your life organized with just a few filters.
