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Q: turn off default reminder

Hi,

I have an issue with the reminders app. I use it a lot for reminding me to watch uni lectures that i have missed. so i put in a lot of entries such as 'watch lecture from monday' or 'watch tuesday's lecture'. however, when the title of a reminder has the name of a day in it, the app automatically creates an alert for the next occurrence of that day.

 

for example, today is friday the 7th. if i created a reminder today that said 'watch lecture from monday', it would by default create an alert for monday the 10th.

 

how can i turn this feature off? i dont want to have alerts for these entries and i don't want to have to manually delete the alerts each time (I do several of these per week).

 

Cheers.

MacBook, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Sep 6, 2012 6:02 PM

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Q: turn off default reminder

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  • by William Lloyd,

    William Lloyd William Lloyd Sep 6, 2012 6:13 PM in response to appleiser
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    Sep 6, 2012 6:13 PM in response to appleiser

    Interesting.

     

    Well, I found a workaround, but it involves LaunchBar :-)

     

    It must be that the Reminders application parses your input and automatically adds this.  But if I add items via a 3rd party method (in my case, LaunchBar), an item like "Watch Tuesday's lecture" does not automatically add a reminder to it.  Adding it in-app does, as you noted.

  • by appleiser,

    appleiser appleiser Sep 6, 2012 6:17 PM in response to William Lloyd
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    Sep 6, 2012 6:17 PM in response to William Lloyd

    Ok. I dont really want to have to use a third party add-on but thanks for the suggestion, I will take a look at it. What would be the most 'lightweight' add-on for just adding reminders?

     

    I also noticed it doesn't do this when added from ios, only from the desktop version.

  • by Terry315D,

    Terry315D Terry315D Dec 23, 2014 1:20 PM in response to appleiser
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    Dec 23, 2014 1:20 PM in response to appleiser

    I would like to be able to turn off this feature too. It's really a hassle to go back in and turn off the alert every time I edit a reminder with a date in it.