Reminders
Here’s another gift to you from the iPhone: Reminders. It’s a program that not only records your life’s little tasks, but also reminds you about them when the time comes. If you have a laptop, Reminders can even remind you about something based on where you are, just as it does on the iPhone and iPad. For example, it can remind you to feed your cats when you arrive home each day—or it can ask you if you’ve turned off the gas burners when you leave your vacation house.
Figure 10-3. To open the Details panel, double-click the reminder item in
the list, or click the 
button to its right. Here, you can make
your reminder pop up at a certain time or place, create an
auto-repeating schedule for it, assign a priority level to it, or
just type in some notes about it. To close the panel, click
Done or click anywhere else in Reminders.
If you have an iCloud account, your reminders sync across all your gadgets. Create or check off a task on your iPhone, and you’ll also find it created or checked off on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or PC. (Yes, you can get iCloud syncing on your PC. See www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html).
The iCloud account also explains why the location feature is useful even if you have a desktop Mac that doesn’t move around a lot. You can program a reminder on ...
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