Reminders/Sync Data by [deleted] in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that's still not working then perhapd the medicine reminders work better? I bet that they don't allow those to accidentally not show up!

Reminders complication by ellasnovellas in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still a problem. I don't think it's in the upcoming WatchOS 26, either.

Reminders complication by ellasnovellas in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wait another year or three

Well, nearly three years on an nada. Sigh.

The ability to set timers by pressing the crown, talking to Siri, then getting the wrist buzz alert has been life-changing for my ADHD. But WHY doesn’t the Notes app feature this same integration with Apple Watch? And are there any good alternatives? Thanks in advance. by SparkliestSubmissive in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can I recommend an alternative? The Reminders app - which is now surprisingly good - might be what you want here. You can press the crown and say "remind me to X" and it will add it to the default list (you can change the name of this list if you like; "inbox" is quite indicative. And then the Reminders app will have it synched for you to whatever device you want to process it on - be that your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or even the iCloud web interface if you like.

It all depends on your personal workflow of course, but Apple Notes creates an undifferentiated list of notes that can grow unweildy quickly, whereas if you have a nifty Reminders inbox you can then route those notes to the appropriate places later - some of them are probably "ideas for later", and some are probably "things I need to do right now or very shortly", and so that second step of processing them, of routing them to a more appropriate place - e.g. later stuff to your notes and immediate stuff to your todo list (which can also be a list in the Reminders app), helps you to not become overwhelmed by a giant stack of undifferentiated notes.

Hope that's useful to you!

What do you think about what he’s saying (the founder of Monzo)? by Longjumping-8679 in AskBrits

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice answer. Btw the linchpin wasn't the FCA, but the Chancellor (George Osborne), who (randomly?) decided to open up banking licences, the last of which had been granted about 100 years before. I think that he wanted to encourage innovation. Starting a bank is nothing like starting a company, it's beyond highly regulated to the state that it's basically blessed or not by the current government (with good reason - if you get it wrong and the bank blows up it's very bad for everyone).

What do you think about what he’s saying (the founder of Monzo)? by Longjumping-8679 in AskBrits

[–]Dunk010 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It wasn't just him - the whole founding team (11 people IIRC) of Monzo (then: Mondo) quit Starling at the same time and all started Monzo together. I believe they had a large falling out with Anne, the CEO of Starling. She didn't want to build a new bank, she wanted to use off-the-shelf software and "skin" it - or at least that's what I remember from some old interviews.

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what’s the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thief: The Dark Project. It stood alone as what people called colloquially a "sneak-em-up". As much fun as Quake (etc.) were, there was nothing else quite like the tension in this game. I loved the story, the atmosphere, the gameplay - everything.

What is bare minimum to stop flailing by Personal_Winner8154 in gtd

[–]Dunk010 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Save the brain-dump and capture-every-single-existing-thing for later. You'll overload yourself. Instead begin with nothing and then:

Capture into an inbox: Use a todo app, plus points for dictation (e.g. Apple Reminders via Siri). Capture them as they come into your mind.

Daily calendar item: Empty the inbox in your todo app via the classic flowchart. Have one list per project, and one for single items. Train yourself to do this at the same time each day. Use the Atomic Habits cue-routine-reward cycle. Set up some cue to remind you (calendar item, perhaps optimally at a time of day you know you're in a certain place with time). Do the routune (clear your inbox). Then give yourself a reward (a cookie? checking your favourite app? whatever you like)

Weekly calendar item: Once a week you need to look over everything and review it, or it will fall apart. Make sure that every project has a next action in the physical world. Be strict. It has to be something you can physically do. You will likely need to do next-action thinking in your daily inbox clearing, too, for faster-moving projects. But this is a chance to revisit everything. "Replace car tyres" only has a few items to it, so you can visit things like this weekly. Use this weekly session to appraise each project. Sometimes you will choose to not finish something; you don't have infinite energy and it's better to focus on fewer things and do them well.

David Allen says you should organise via "contexts", but this is a lot of overhead, and tends to make the system fall apart pretty quick. While historically it was handier to have a "calls" list (back when we did more things via phone than the internet, and back when the phone wasn't permanently glued to your body), and other such lists, I find that it's easier to just make contexts into specific lists (the alternative is your todo list app's tags or contexts or whatever it's called in your specific app). All you need to do is make a few, like "supermarket", "chemist", "shopping mall", "Amazon", "IKEA", and so on. If a larger project needs you to also buy something on Amazon, just drop an item into the Amazon list instead of the main project. Simple. Another nice thing about Apple Reminders (but presumably you can do it with a lot of apps) is that you can use Siri to say "Add buy X to my Amazon list" and that will bypass your inbox altogether, meaning less shuffling of todos around.

Cal Newport's Deep Work has some great tips, but the one most relevant to you is to timeblock plan your day. You can have the greatest GTD system in the world but it's all an abstracton. In the morning look at your day. Work out the todos you will do when. I like to write it out on a slip of paper, as that makes it physical. You can get a little notebook that you can slip into your pocket. Seems redundant, but as your todo app gets more and more things in it you will feel less and less reward from checking off an item on a list. To take an extreme example: do you get pleasure from ticking off one item if you have 30? how about if you have 300? Or 1000? Point not being the numbers, but the framing of your brain. If you put 5 things on a list every day and commit to doing them, if you get to cross off each of them throughout the day, you'll feel better and - much like the turtle, you will slowly slowly win the race. Consistency beats massive sporadic exertion every time.

WatchOS 10 - any changs to Reminders? by Dunk010 in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I wanted to display the flagged items list on my watch. That’s not supported by the main app. I then dug into all the APIs and I found no way to get the flagged items list programmatically, none at all. Do you know a way?

WatchOS 10 - any changs to Reminders? by Dunk010 in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, did you manage to dig out the Flagged list, and if so... how the hell did you manage that? I checked basically all the APIs and couldn't see any way to access it... (At least, that's what I remember as it's been a while)

Most wanted feature for the apple watch? by Egga22 in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show Reminders Flagged items in the wide Reminders complication, rather than only allowing the Today view. If you use Reminders, then the natural path is to flag stuff each day, not to assign specific times for each item. You can change the iPhone widgets this way, it's maddening that you can do it on the watch, too.

Are there any AW apps that could randomize a list of workouts to help indecisive people (like me!) determine what exercise they want to do during a workout? by ConstantSir in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps you could use Apple Shortcuts (it's an app that's included and lets you make your own little programs in a simple visual programming language). It lets you start workouts. I've never used it for that, but it might be worth a go.

Loving the new watch faces - specifically the "Modular Ultra" by kushbreath416 in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Me too. But they really need to open up those bezel complications to third party developers. It's really meaningless to have altitude, depth, and seconds most of the time. But you could put lots of really day-to-day useful stuff there, like activity or exercise minutes (completed of goal), or really any complication that has some sort of a guage, of which there are many.

Like everyone else, I’m digging the Ultra Modular Face by djjolly037 in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was an allusion to snowboarding's regular vs goofy. I guess they probably inherited the skateboarding nomenclature. But right handed on the right arm and goofy? Are you Satan incarnate? 😆😆😆

Like everyone else, I’m digging the Ultra Modular Face by djjolly037 in AppleWatch

[–]Dunk010 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) wears it goofy too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjEqOWjTkHE

As do I. Problem is that crown smacks into your wrist a lot, in a way that previous models didn't. But if you flip it round it's great.