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How do reminders sort?

I would like to be able to see reminders sorted by their due date. There doesn't seem to be a way to sort them in any particular way. Am I missing something about how to set them up? Thanks for any tips.


Also, it would be great to be able to sort Notes by title instead of only by revision date.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion, Aperture 3.3.2

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 3:00 PM

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Posted on Jul 29, 2012 9:28 AM

Turns out in Mountain Lion you can DRAG the individual reminders in the list to at least *manually* arrange them by due date, which I guess is better than nothing... 😟


I was looking at the Reminders pane in Lion's iCal and in that OS you could sort them ascending by due date, priority, title, calendar, and manually.


Also in Lion, Notes in Mail could be sorted ascending or descending by date, subject, and several other fields.


In iOS 5.1.1, Notes sorts ascending by rev. date only, and I have no idea how Reminders sorts. It's clearly NOT by title, priority, or due date and there's no option to manually arrange the individual items in the list.


I really hope both Reminders and Notes in Mountain Lion and iOS get some attention by the folks at Apple because, at least the way I use them, they are seriously falling short.

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Jul 29, 2012 9:28 AM in response to Localboy56

Turns out in Mountain Lion you can DRAG the individual reminders in the list to at least *manually* arrange them by due date, which I guess is better than nothing... 😟


I was looking at the Reminders pane in Lion's iCal and in that OS you could sort them ascending by due date, priority, title, calendar, and manually.


Also in Lion, Notes in Mail could be sorted ascending or descending by date, subject, and several other fields.


In iOS 5.1.1, Notes sorts ascending by rev. date only, and I have no idea how Reminders sorts. It's clearly NOT by title, priority, or due date and there's no option to manually arrange the individual items in the list.


I really hope both Reminders and Notes in Mountain Lion and iOS get some attention by the folks at Apple because, at least the way I use them, they are seriously falling short.

Aug 1, 2012 6:21 PM in response to Localboy56

It took me a bit to figure this out. While in the reminders app, choose View>Go To Today or "command-T". This changes to show reminders by date. Essentially this shows all past due items and those that are due "Today" on today's date. You can easily swipe forward and backward by date showing the items that are due on their respective dates.


However it does not appear you can sort by priority. But just under the Reminder title (in light grey for me) it indicates the list for the item.


Unfortunately, you can not sort by date or priority within a list, only manually.

Aug 1, 2012 11:53 PM in response to cmfitzy

Thanks cmfitzy, "command-T" (nearly) solved the problem for me!


Ideally I'd prefer a small-real-estate GUI with left pane closed, but as "command-T" has no toggle-mode the pane needs to stay open to go back to full list. Positive side effect: you can also open the calendar and click on single days - this opens the due reminders for that day (only).


Wishlist:

- sort lists by date

- "command-T" as toggle mode plus a "date" button (like iOS)

- option to show all reminders until (not only on) a date to manage workload

Aug 2, 2012 7:15 AM in response to Localboy56

Localboy56 wrote:


Turns out in Mountain Lion you can DRAG the individual reminders in the list to at least *manually* arrange them by due date, which I guess is better than nothing... 😟



How do you do that? I can get the catgories to drag for sorting (left pane). But I cannot get the individual reminders (right pane) to drag.

Aug 2, 2012 3:55 PM in response to user1724

User1724 - Using my Trackpad, I position the cursor on the reminder i want to move, click on the reminder with my thumb and then keeping my thumb down on the trackpad, use my forefinger to move the reminder up or down where it needs to go.


With a mouse, I left click on the reminder, then holding down the left button move the mouse to position the reminder where it needs to go.


Does that not work for you?

Aug 2, 2012 4:34 PM in response to Localboy56

Localboy56 wrote:


User1724 - Using my Trackpad, I position the cursor on the reminder i want to move, click on the reminder with my thumb and then keeping my thumb down on the trackpad, use my forefinger to move the reminder up or down where it needs to go.


With a mouse, I left click on the reminder, then holding down the left button move the mouse to position the reminder where it needs to go.


Does that not work for you?

Does not work for me. I can drag and move the categories in the left pane, but the reminders in the right pane do not move.

Nov 19, 2012 4:40 PM in response to Localboy56

Check this post, it shows you how you can drag to sort in order yourself, which is tricky. You have to click and drag just right. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4216779


I definitely don't see a sort option otherwise, as LocalBoy56 said, make sure you "email Mountain Lion developers about the degraded performance of Reminders and Notes so hopefully this will escalate a fix for it."


http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Nov 21, 2012 5:10 AM in response to Doppelgangr

Doppelgangr wrote:


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Wishlist:

- sort lists by date

- "command-T" as toggle mode plus a "date" button (like iOS)

- option to show all reminders until (not only on) a date to manage workload


As long as we're wishing, I'd like to see a way to determine the default calendar for new Reminders in addition to your list. I know not a big thing to go to that calendar and create a new reminder for it, but it would be nice to have a default when creating on a Date window.

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