This App Solves All My Problems With Apple Reminders
Apple Reminders, in case you weren’t aware, has added a ton of new features over the past couple of years, and it’s a pretty comprehensive to-do list app at this point. It’s not perfect, however: for one thing, it doesn’t offer a menu bar icon to quickly check reminders or a system-wide keyboard shortcut to quickly add a task to a list. The free Reminders Menu Bar app solves these problems so easily you’d think Apple did it themselves.
To get started, simply download and launch the application. Once you’ve granted the required permissions, you can click the new menu bar icon to view your current tasks. From here, you can also directly type the task and press Enter to add it to your inbox. There’s even support for natural language due dates. This means you can type “finish writing your report tomorrow” and the app will add a task that is due tomorrow.
Today’s tasks are at the top, followed by all your lists. You can decide which of these options you want to see using the filter button in the bottom left corner.
There aren’t a lot of options – there shouldn’t be – but you can tweak a few things by clicking the gear icon in the bottom right corner. You’ll find a toggle for things like launch at login, whether to use dark or light mode, and which menu bar icon you want to use.
You can also add your own keyboard shortcut.
When you launch the shortcut, a menu bar icon will open. You can start typing a new task immediately after using the keyboard shortcut. This means the app adds another feature that Reminders doesn’t have: the ability to quickly add a task without opening the full app. Every major to-do list I can think of, from Todoist to Omnifocus to TickTick, offers some version of this—and with the Apple Reminders menu bar, you can finally add it to Apple Reminders, too.