Reminders Smart List Help...Can This Be Automated / Done?

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Reminders Smart List Help...Can This Be Automated / Done?

Apple Reminders is my new tool of choice to track tasks over my Apple devices but I have run into a problem.

I am using the following Smart Lists / Smart Folders:

Today, which lists the tasks I need to complete today
Tomorrow, which lists the tasks that I need to complete tomorrow
Two Days, which lists theta's that I need to complete in two days' time

The Today Smart List automatically "updates" from day to day through / using the Smart List Setting per the below image (see the red ellipse).

The Tomorrow and Two Days criteria I need to set manually at the start of each day as I can find / see no way to "automate" this (i.e., roll these forward similar to the Today list) and it is becoming annoying.

Please let me know how these can be automated to roll forward (i.e., are there settings I am missing, is there a work around, etc.).

Please, at the same time and in the event that there is no workaround, what third application has this capability.

Thank you.

MacBook Pro Apple Silicon

Posted on Nov 6, 2022 6:34 AM

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JoelcYYZ Author

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Nov 10, 2022 1:21 PM in response to etresoft

I have continue do dig into this and do not believe it is capable within Reminders.

In my digging, I did stumble across an Application called GoodTask which is a) a Reminders overlay and b) provides a wide range of capability / functionality that is not provided in Reminders. There is a trial version which I am using and it does do what I need / want, to bad Reminders does not.

The good news, because it is a Reminders overlay, I can always revert back to Reminders if and when Reminders becomes more feature rich.

I hope this helps others.

Thank you.

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Barney-15E

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Nov 10, 2022 4:13 PM in response to JoelcYYZ

Have you tried a "Relative Range" instead of "Today?"

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etresoft

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Nov 6, 2022 7:05 AM in response to JoelcYYZ

This is not possible. There is no built-in concept of "today" or even "tomorrow". (Well, there would be if such a thing were coded to work that way, but it isn't. Apple often uses words like "Today" or "Yesterday" but that is merely a display setting. It doesn't actually have the concept of tomorrow or yesterday. It definitely could, but no one ever does that.)

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etresoft

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Nov 6, 2022 9:13 AM in response to JoelcYYZ

JoelcYYZ wrote:

Please note that there is -- in the Smart List settings -- the concept of TODAY and that Smart List does "roll forward" automatically.

If so, that is only because they coded it that way. That doesn't necessarily imply that they have coded it to understand "tomorrow" or the "next day".

To make matters worse, you are asking this on Time Change Day, when all computer are confused about when today and tomorrow are.

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