How iOS 18 Reminders + Notes Supercharged My Productivity [with Shortcuts]

[@sxotthamilton]

Thanks for giving me a reason to stop getting lost in notion 😂😂😂

[@beardfm]

That struggle is REAL. It always tempted me, and I used it for a while, but I feel better in the native apps.

[@kimbapslayer1995]

don't over complicate notion. You'll naturally build upon it once you realize you NEED more. Keep it barebones and it's great.

[@ArtPsychologist]

In Notes or Safari or Podcast, you can ask Siri, "Remind me about it" and it will automatically create a link in the reminder.

[@telmojuliao]

I think you missed the fact that you can share an Apple Note directly to Reminders which will create a reminder with that Note attached. No need to copy links back and forth. Anyway, thanks for the tips.

[@jmb1337]

Thank you for these videos! I won’t use your videos to 99% the power you show them but I have such a much better understanding of the Apple system (shortcuts, notes, reminders) that I didn’t have before. Seems like so much stuff Apple does is behind the scenes and I never utilized its power fully. I will say when google rolls out a new feature I feel like they send me and email and the splash screen highlights new features way better. One of my hesitations to moving to Apple was the lack of power user features, but you’re proving me wrong with every video. Keep it up!

[@beardfm]

Appreciate the kind words 🙏🏻

[@bluenova1000]

The two finger select. Mind blown.

[@4BTRMNY]

I’m looking for a shortcut to export reminders into excel

[@prateekmankatala4677]

Can Shortcut open an app when reminder is marked as completed

[@Sah-dd1zh]

Congrats on the 100K!!! This is great, never knew about the columns view. I tried Notion a bit but never felt like I could get the hang of it, just too clunky and fickle.

[@DocRock]

SR to link a note type >> and the note title boom done ‘also I add a return link back to the go note for speed

[@RupeshBhandari-977]

We need markdown support in notes

[@emmaokeefe7283]

Preach 🙌

[@King_Bond]

Please also show a shortcut which will create a new reminder in notion and link it to a new reminder in reminders app

[@beardfm]

Unfortunately Notion doesn't offer the kinds of Shortcuts actions to allow for that.

[@Nicola-e6r]

Could you make a video about replacing apple intelligence just with shortcuts ?

[@beardfm]

Hm, once it launches, including the Shortcuts features, I will!

[@Nicola-e6r]

@@beardfm thanks

[@campbellhor]

Could you use #completed and create a smart list for now? 11:07

[@torresrg01]

Stephen, great video! How can “preppend” text to a note? I have been looking for that action, without any luck.

[@beardfm]

Thanks! And I just realized Bear notes allows you to prepend or append, but Apple Notes is only append. Misspoke on that, sorry!

[@thetechcornerbusiness]

I’ve just started watching and most useful video from what I’ve recently watched. Thanks 🎉

[@beardfm]

Appreciate that!

[@remixk]

Hello, great video!! It would be nice to have a shortcut for reminders and note the same way you did the one for bear. Best regards

[@beardfm]

Will work on that for the next Shortcuts video! (Coming very soon)

[@coguix]

The new video template shortcut doesn’t work, I think Bear app have some issue.

[@anubhavkeanubhav09]

Hey Stephen, can you help me. This shortcut runs perfectly on my iPad but on my iPhone it stops after creating the note. It is not getting the content of the note and hence it is not proceeding further

[@RazuTales]

Great video. Is there a way to create a new apple note, and have the URL for that added to a reminder? I can't seem to figure out how to get shortcuts to copy the internal URL to an apple note.

[@beardfm]

That''s one of the reasons I did it with Bear. No way to easily get the Note URL in Shortcuts as far as I can tell. Will work on it though!

[@sandervandermore]

⁠@@beardfm How I do it: I create an Apple Note and then Hit ‚share‘ and select Reminders. You can then select the desired list you want to add it to and it will add it to Reminders and include the link to the note with an Icon. Same as you do with Bear. You can also share f.i. One piece of text from a Note and share the same way to make tasks in Reminders linked to that note. Haven’t tried making that into a Shortcut.

[@schuestav]

@@sandervandermoreGreat! The only problem for me: The link back to notes always jumps to the folder „All iCloud“ and shows the note there with all other notes and not within the dedicated folder.

[@RazuTales]

​@@beardfm I've just setup Bear Notes and as others here are saying, the shortcut isn't working. It seems like there's a problem with the "return to shortcuts" step. On my iPad it doesn't return from Bear. On Mac it doesn't return. If i disable the "Return to shortcut" step, it goes all the way through to reminders, but the correct URL is not available on the reminder.

[@sandervandermore]

@@schuestav thats weird, it takes me directly to the linked note every time!

[@hardik6700]

Very informative. Thanks for sharing.

[@joelkdean]

Congrats 🎉on 100,000 subscribers! We love your content. Keep it coming.

[@ctjh373]

Do you or anyone know how to create a shortcut to do a quick entry for reminders??

[@ramrajgg]

Anyone having problem where intercom shortcut speak very fast after io18 update, I deleted the shortcut and created new shortcut with intercom but still no luck I noticed one thing it happens any time, which means twice it works fine but after that it speak fast and after some time speaks normal

[@Dellicious-hk8ey]

In the notes section of Reminders, I can highlight a word, go to Format, and select a bullet point. When I hit return, it adds another bullet. It will automatically create dashes from the keyboard, but you have to put in the effort to get the bullet point. 😂

[@luismarcoperezthemsel1677]

Ey quick question so i bought the 13" version of this ipad and i loved it . what you think about your 11? still loving it?

[@ericl3441]

thanks for the video

[@Unknown_Dev_YT]

Nice video!

[@beardfm]

Appreciate it!

[@MichaelJosephAgbayani]

Hi! Tried the Create Video Template on my phone and it stops at the Bear notes part. It opens Bear notes with the input given but doesn’t create the reminder. Not sure what’s happening.

[@developerofcodellc]

I’m having this same issue. Hopefully he addresses your comment so we can get this resolved!

[@developerofcodellc]

I figured it out… On the third action within the shortcut, you have to click on the arrow beside “ask for input” and the toggle OFF the “return to Shortcuts” and then the shortcut will run properly.

[@Roeshimi]

@@developerofcodellc Thank you! I've had the same issue.

[@coguix]

Same problem, i turn off that toggle and still not working.

[@rickshay4656]

Reminders is so close but still so far away. The fact that you can't have a task repeat from a completion date is kind of inexcusable. Will stick with Things for now until some stuff is sorted out, but I like the direction

[@beaconterraoneonline]

You can easily just drag an Apple Note to an Apple Reminder when both apps on on the screen side by side.

[@beardfm]

True, but it would be nice to do it all in one Shortcut

[@adnan_samyn]

Create a shortcut where phone TRIGGER ALARM when getting notification from specific app. Request!!

[@beardfm]

I wish triggering from an app notification was possible but there’s no automation for that yet!

[@oB3ATS]

Reminders notes need to copy/paste the robustness of the native notes app. Just saying

[@ryanw8664]

Neato but Lord have mercy, I’ll be spending more time setting up my tasks than getting things done.

[@Th055o-t4r]

If you long press and move a note “attached to your finger” in Apple Notes you can drag it onto your Home Screen into Reminders and attach the Note to the specific Reminder. No need to share the Apple note.

[@Oleg__]

Of course there is a need to share, as I hate doing long swipes by dragging my finger across the screen. And a lot of people already know about the drag-and-drop method.

[@Th055o-t4r]

@@Oleg__ The only thing I was referring to is that you can attach APPLE notes to reminders and don't need any 3rd Party Apps. Cool that you already know this. But maybe other people dont.

[@schuestav]

Great! 🥳Thanks! I didn‘t know that!

[@sam-------]

Swipe with two fingers has BLOWN my mind

[@Oleg__]

You probably haven't gone online in years if this was a revelation to you.

I sometimes wonder what productivity is supercharged when these KZbinrs talk about productivity!

[@beardfm]

Using 1 Shortcut to create a reminder for project management and a note for filming, then having a quick and easy way to manage in on iPad thanks to Reminders, saves me time!

[@jpk.mp3]

my guy already talking about iOS19 😂

[@beardfm]

Never too soon 😏

[@Reznik88]

you definitely straw manned apple notes on this... You can do the same shortcut with apple notes lol

[@planinshek]

Anyone else’s battery die really fast on Apple notes 18.1 public beta 4, 5, 6 or 7?

[@ezrakoper]

Lost you