Quick market research:

[marcoarment@mastodon.social]

Quick market research:

Do you use location-triggered (geofenced) Reminders in iOS?

(e.g. "remind me when I get home to do X”)

[nimro@hachyderm.io]

@marcoarment I tried, but I found them too unreliable

[timo@social.hetzel.net]

@marcoarment not been working for me for years now. Reminders only show up on Mac, never on iPhone.

[rickscully@heads.social]

@marcoarment If there was a "rarely but not never" that would be me

[andyflisher@mastodon.social]

@marcoarment no, because I can never remember the expectations of what happens if you have a location and an alert is it AND or OR and which comes first? ‍️

[will@ybrammer.com]

@marcoarment It’s almost literally the only way I use Reminders. I just ask Siri to remind me when I get home or get to work to do something I will def foget to do.

[gnb@mastodon.social]

@marcoarment often for "at home", but "at work" is very unreliable – I work at a university, and the street address in my contact card isn't really representative of where my actual office is. Apple Maps thinks I work in the middle of the woods (blue dot is where I am currently sitting at my desk).

[drchris@mastodon.ie]

@marcoarment I use them but the fact they’re recurring by default is so fucking maddening that every time I do it I curse Cupertino.

[mactonex@toot.community]

@marcoarment use them all the time but since the recent update it seems to have forgotten where I live, which is annoying.

[mathowie@xoxo.zone]

@rickscully @marcoarment same here, I probably do a "remind me when I get home" thing over Siri in the car maybe once a year.

[qwed113@mastodon.social]

@marcoarment looking forward to your new reminders app!

[edmn@mastodon.social]

@marcoarment Yeo, they work fantastically for me and are easy to setup with Siri.

[wklj@mastodon.social]

@andyflisher @marcoarment You can do both! Often I say "Remind me to do X when I get home" or "Remind me to do Y when I get to work" (both home and work have labels for me in my contact). Or you can do the @hotdogsladies "belt and suspenders" approach of "Remind me to do X when I get home at 10:00" and you'll likely get 2 reminders, unless you just do the thing immediately when you get home.

[joshhrach@iosdev.space]

@marcoarment Reminders, including this exactly use case, is my highest use of Siri.

[biggsjm@mastodon.social]

@marcoarment super handy when I’m running errands. Run into store and reminders pop up with all the things I need to get.

[dxzdb@mastodon.social]

@marcoarment It would take a lot to pull me away from @things

[benedictc@mas.to]

@marcoarment I tried them a few times when they were introduced but they were unreliable so haven’t used them since. I use date/time reminders and just set them for when I know I’ll be in the right place to action them.

[splitmind@rheinneckar.social]

@marcoarment It's nice in OmniFocus for example when you pass a shop and it reminds you that you wanted to buy something there, for example

[trezzer@social.linux.pizza]

@marcoarment [x] I always use location Reminders to the extent that I usually don't finish them, so they pop off again next time

[sonikku@techhub.social]

@marcoarment ALL the time. Reminders for stuff to look up when I get home that pop into my mind while at work that I don’t have time for then, stuff to do when I get to work, etc