Set digital reminders to organize your life

The Apple Reminders app is a good way to keep your life in order. Never forget a reminder with these simple tips! P.S. This page may contain affiliate links. Please see my disclosure for more information.

I activate the Reminders app with a Siri voice command: “Hey Siri, remind me to…” You can also type a reminder directly into the app, but I find the voice command the easiest to use.

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Depending on what tech I’m using (phone, watch or iPad), Siri will recognize the command and set a reminder in the app. The most important thing is to use the word “remind” because then it will know it’s using the Reminders app, and not setting an alarm or sending a text.

Here’s what the app looks like:

You can organize reminders into different lists, and choose to share one with someone else.

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Here’s what it looks like on your phone’s screen when you ask Siri to create a reminder for you:

Here’s what it looks like in the app when you add a reminder (either with Siri or by typing it in):

When it’s time for a reminder to alert you, it will pop up on your phone or other Apple device. My reminders stay on my locked screen until I complete, erase or change them.

You can do more with Reminders too, like set an alert to be reminded about things when you message a specific person or are in a certain location.

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Here’s an example of being reminded of something when messaging a person. To set this up, I clicked the reminder in the app and an “i” appeared next to it. I clicked that and it took me to edit the reminder’s details in this screen:

Then I chose to edit “When Messaging,” adding Michael to it as you can see above.

This is what the reminder then looked like:

The next time I messaged Michael, the reminder popped up:

Never forget a thing with the Reminders app!