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Reminders keeps on indenting the reminder I'm trying to sort. Is this a setting? or is it part of the OS? If so, how would I sort my reminders without them being automatically indenting?
MacBook Pro
Ok so after finicking with reminders on Mac, I resolved this problem. If you click and drag the reminder from where the text is, macOS will assume that your sorting it as an indenting reminder. However, to sort reminders without indenting it to another. You have to click and drag from the checkbox itself.
Ok so after finicking with reminders on Mac, I resolved this problem. If you click and drag the reminder from where the text is, macOS will assume that your sorting it as an indenting reminder. However, to sort reminders without indenting it to another. You have to click and drag from the checkbox itself.
I think I have found the reason for this. Indented reminders seem to work fine when viewing the specific list where they are defined, but not when viewing the auto filtered lists ("Today", "Scheduled", "All" and "Flagged").
Try looking at the reminder by selecting the list that you have defined and listed it under, e.g., "Groceries", "Homework" etc. Sublists, indents, outdents, drag-and-drop to indent etc. should all work as expected in Catalina.
Hopefully Apple will make the auto filtered views work in the same way as the native lists.
I am currently running 10.15.1 - not sure if this works with earlier versions...
Discovered that we can un-indent by right clicking on the "i" . Thanks!
Same for me on both MacOS and iPadOS. Annoying as heck!
Did just notice that there is a right click option to indent/outdent on MacOS, so I've been able to tidy all my reminders up.
I actually had a call with support regarding this and after some various testing we found that for some reason the subtask (i.e. indent) option on macOS is only available when Reminders is connected to iCloud. It also allows the option to flag items which was not available when I just had Reminders disconnected from iCloud (i.e. only saved on my Mac). I know this is odd and not ideal but thought I'd share the findings.
Funny, I have the opposite problem. No matter what I do I can't get my Reminders to indent. Dragging them on top of each other doesn't work, nor using the shortcuts; the options to indent and outdent appear grayed out in the Edit menu. I also find the UX rather clunky and unintuitive — having to drag reminders from the blank space to reorder them. It doesn't feel like an app made by Apple at all...
I have the same issue. If I drag a reminder below another, the dragged one automatically gets indented. It actually didn't bother me that much at first because I thought it was an automatic feature (one that doesn't make sense). Now I can confirm that I'm not the only one a bit annoyed with it.
I've got the same problem where I can't indent (it's greyed out).
I think what I’m trying to say is that whenever I sort my reminders, they automatically indent to the reminder above it. It’s not a matter of whether I could indent it or not.
I’m not asking why I can’t indent my reminders. I’m asking why my reminders automatically indent whenever I sort them
My apologies Seth. I initially replied to @nedatsea because they had the same issue as me (which is different from your issue) and then mistakenly replied to your original post.
It’s fine. Misunderstanding
How do I un-indent an item in Reminders? Right click doesn't do it! Frustrating. Thanks!
right there with you dude. annoying AF. apple, please fix this.
This is very annoying. I move around the items on my list and then have to right click on each to "outdent" why is there not a preference setting to stop this.
Help! My reminders automatically indent to other reminders whenever I sort them on macOS Catalina
