Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macs, 3rd Edition

Create a Reminder

You can use the Reminders app to have your Mac display a notification when you need to perform a task. You can use the Calendar app to schedule important events, but you likely have many tasks during the day that cannot be considered full-fledged events: returning a call, taking clothes out of the dryer, turning off the sprinkler. If you need to be reminded to perform such tasks, the Calendar app is overkill, but your Mac offers a better solution: the Reminders app. You use this app to create reminders, which are notifications that tell you to do something or to be somewhere.

Create a Reminder

In the Dock, click Reminders ...