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Declutter overdue recurring tasks in Apple Reminders, a plan that works

Supratim Samanta
Geek Culture
4 min readNov 7, 2022

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Reclaim the overdue reminders and make the todo list clean using Apple Shortcuts

No todo list is complete, moreover useful if it does not cover every aspect of life of the user, using it. Even if it does not cover a single area, absence of it will be felt gradually and in the worst case, absence of too many areas will make the user abstain from the tool, as, rather than being a useful tool, the tool becomes a liability to maintain.

Now here is another issue, the more things a todo list covers, the more and more numbers of tasks there are, the more number of overdue tasks. No one likes to see a long list of overdue tasks.

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Well we cannot do much for the tasks which are of single occurrence and must be completed before some time elapses, but we can do a lot for the recurring tasks. In this post let’s talk about a plan on how to go about solving this issue of recurring and overdue tasks in a manageable and automated way.

Why Apple Reminders?

I have chosen Apple Reminders because this is the tool I am using and this is the tool which is native to iPhone so to achieve automation is really easy, but the plan, we will talk today can be…

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Supratim Samanta
Geek Culture

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