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Reminders
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2011–2025), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Reminders, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 9 complaints
- Catalyst-based Reminders and Notes are hard to navigate with a keyboard2025-11-24
- Moving the mouse after releasing selects a different time with no warning2025-09-01
- Can't do most things with keyboard alone; tab and arrow keys navigation is broken2024-02-16
- Tab key moves between date, time and location inputs in a broken order2022-06-09
- Upgrading Reminders on iPhone locks Mac out of reminders until Catalina is installed2019-10-07
- Glitchy; unsure whether reminders fire or clearing items actually works2019-05-16
- Delete button icon is unclear; user accidentally deleted a reminder while exploring2018-04-23
- After the permissions screen, a blank page with grayed-out list button; must quit and reopen2018-04-23
- Setting a location reminder takes many taps and screen switches2011-10-05