| Tip 17 | Create Reminders Ultra-Quickly |
Imagine the situation: you receive an email from a friend reminding you to pick up a book for him from the bookstore. Being a Mac OS X user, you know exactly how to handle the situation: you can add an entry in the Reminders app, which will then be shared with your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. No more forgetting!
There’s just one problem: starting Reminders and then creating the actual entry on the list is a lot of effort and far from the casual single-click we might expect of Apple technology.
There are two solutions to this terrible problem, as follows.
Dragging and Dropping to the Reminders App
If the mail you’ve received has as its subject line the nature of the reminder (e.g., “Don’t forget to pick ...
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