Sorting reminders

You can sort them, but you've got to do it manually by dragging them around.

matt

Matthew Morgan,

you can only sort the lists on the reminders app. if I am wrong and you know of a way to sort the actual reminders in a list please, to tell. I am looking for a way to do so for a long time.

You can sort move both items in a list and the list groups.

You can select a category (such as Misc) and move it. You can select an item in the list and move it. Moving an item in the list is a little challenging. The area around the text (like 'Update Blog', is a text box so putting your cursor there and clicking will insert the text curosr into the text. You have to click in the space close to the edges of the item to grab it. Then it can be moved.

I have one calendar - iCloud. If I had another calendar then its name would appear above the categories in that calendar. I don't believe calendars can be moved around.

Has anyone figured out how Reminders decides the order in which to display reminders on a given day, if they're all set to the same time? I can't for the life of me figure it out. It isn't alphabetical; it isn't by list; it isn't by when the reminder was created. Very weird and annoying.

You can sort today's and previous days' reminders by using View>Go to Today. I have not found a way for Remidners to sort them automatically in any other view.

You can, as others have noted, sort them manually, but that's a new nuisance if you have a lot of future reminders, as I do. A computer application ought to be able to sort them for me automatically!

I have downloaded IOS7 and it is a bit of a mess with reminders. Previously reminders appeared in day order. Now they are just a list. Come on Apple get this one easier

I agree. It is definitely a mess. Also I cannot add new reminders to today's list either, have to go back to the individual lists to add any new reminders.

I have worked this out.

To sort - on Ipad click the little alarm clock on the left. On Iphone - Drag the screen down and the clock appears on the the top. Click to sort.

To add a reminder - sort as above then click just below the last entry for TODAY. There is a very faint box. Enter your words and then click the blue 'i' button to enter dates and times.

Why the + button has gone is beyond me.

Hope this helps.

The alarm clock only appears when the different lists of reminders apear. Once you click on the alarm clock, it shows the Scheduled reminders and the alarm clock disappears. It is the Scheduled reminders that are unsorted now in iOS7 but which were sorted previously in iOS6.

The adding of new reminders as you said does work. Thanks very much for that.

But in any case, the whole thing just does not seem to function as well as in iOS6.