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Can you set a due date in Reminders on Mountain Lion?

It seems that there is no way to set a due date for a task in Reminders on Mountain Lion. In Lion in iCal you could set a Due Date that was different than the reminders you could set for a task. It seems obvious to me that reminders are different than due dates. Reminders can occur multiple times leading up to and on the due date (and perhaps even after a due date), but it is helpful to set a due date. Hopefully Apple will bring this functionality over to Reminders from the Lion version of iCal, as this is a downgrade in this one respect for me.

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 4:51 PM

55 replies

Aug 17, 2013 6:22 PM in response to Community User

Thank you. In MAC (did not try in iOS) we can simply drag the reminder in to the calendar (in the left pane) and release it. Due date gets appended. Apps download NOT needed.

jaydisc

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Aug 17, 2013 8:09 PM in response to gladtoshare

You're confusing Remind Me Date and Due Date. They are not the same, hence the purpose of this thread.

Aug 17, 2013 8:55 PM in response to jaydisc

Thank you. I was looking for incorporating just the due date (not remind me date) and was searching in this forum. Your suggestion is helpful.

afurley

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Dec 11, 2013 11:47 PM in response to Ames Fowler

Unfortunately, Apple have found a work around: in Mavericks the @Barnery-15E move no longer works (no Due Date appears when you time the reminder into the past) and no Due Date setting is available...... Any other ideas? Anyone know why Apple don't like Due Dates????

afurley

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Dec 11, 2013 11:49 PM in response to Baba Ji

No, now that Apple have sunk the @Barney-15E in Mavericks, yours is the definitive solution. What a pain, but thanks for the suggestion.

May 9, 2014 1:43 PM in response to gladtoshare

This seemed to work perfectly for me. But I can't make it happen again.

May 23, 2014 7:41 AM in response to jaydisc

I've also always found that distinction to be confusing for some reason.

May 23, 2014 9:03 AM in response to Jared Galanis

me too!

pepita

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Jul 16, 2015 4:25 AM in response to Jared Galanis

For anyone who like me stumbles on this thread while looking for a workaround to add "due dates" (as separate from "remind me on" date) in Reminders, I've tried everything including Automator and Applescripts solutions you can google ("mac reminders due date automator/applescript") but they either didn't work, or worked but required further steps to change the due date manually, until I found the simplest solution already available as a small app on the Mac App Store, it's called "Remind Me" and it's FREE.

It does just that, add a reminder, showing you all the fields you can edit, including due date, and it can be set with a shortcut in keyboard preferences so it's really handy. In that way it works sort of like a Service - and unlike the Automator Service suggestions I'd found, it does work.

LilyLC

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Aug 28, 2015 11:04 AM in response to pepita

Thank you, pepita!

I just tried "Remind Me" and it works with Yosemite. 🙂 I do wish that it allowed setting repeat. For now, I go back to Reminders to add that. Yippee due dates!

Can you set a due date in Reminders on Mountain Lion?