Why aren't Reminders and Calendar more tightly integrated?

designrdesignr
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Apple has come a long way with both Calendar and Reminders.

However, it seems they "forgot" to integrate Reminders (that have a date or time) with Calendar.

This seems like an obvious thing to do.

Reminders is a great place to manage...well reminders. Sometimes—not always—these have a date and/or time. It makes sense to me that these could just appear in Calendar—as a reminder—for the given date/time.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?

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    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,175moderator
    designr said:
    Apple has come a long way with both Calendar and Reminders.

    However, it seems they "forgot" to integrate Reminders (that have a date or time) with Calendar.

    This seems like an obvious thing to do.

    Reminders is a great place to manage...well reminders. Sometimes—not always—these have a date and/or time. It makes sense to me that these could just appear in Calendar—as a reminder—for the given date/time.

    Anyone else have thoughts on this?
    It would be useful to have them more integrated. Microsoft's Exchange products are more integrated and can be linked to Reminders and Calendar but the functionality to add reminders to the calendar isn't there and they have sync/refresh issues between devices.

    Microsoft adds reminders as part of their other products, it could just be another panel in the Calendar app instead of a separate app. That simplifies things because they don't have to make a cross-app communication system maintaining privacy.

    This is probably a case where 3rd party apps are the better route to go like Things or Fantastical:

    https://culturedcode.com/things/
    https://culturedcode.com/things/support/articles/2803583/

    https://flexibits.com/fantastical

    Reminders would be replaced with whichever app has the best Calendar integration. Todoist works with Fantastical.

    https://www.imore.com/best-reminder-apps-iphone-and-ipad

    https://todoist.com

    A simple 'add to calendar' button or checkbox in Reminders would be enough and could be for a group of tasks.

    Reminders, Notes and Calendar don't even need to be separate apps, it can be like the Stopwatch app that is a timer, stopwatch and alarm. There's a lot of overlap between them. Checklists can be added in Notes:

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205773

    This app could be called Events or Planner and each page/event created could be a standard list with creation date, a checklist or a time-driven event. The Planner could allow setting up meetings and linking presentations directly to them so when the reminder shows, it has a link to the presentation. In Zoom meetings, people always have to hunt for their presentation files before starting the meeting.
    designrmuthuk_vanalingam
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