Honestly, the less Apple made apps, the better for the ecosystem and the quality of the apps in general. Apple's recent "sherlocked" apps are not good quality at all, but they make it substantially more difficult for 3rd parties to compete with the now default offerings.

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Sir_Twist 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not a developer, but I feel like Apple improving the defaults has been good for the ecosystem. The Reminders app is an example of this, because as it has gotten better over the years, the baseline for a good iOS to-do app has been raised, without reducing the market.

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Schiendelman 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree 100%. I ended up building myself a utility to wrangle my reminders (like keep them from getting missed/lost) instead of using a third-party app.

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coldtea 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you describe that utility?

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Schiendelman 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah! I mean I published it on the app store, too. It does three core things: 1) Makes sure every reminder gets a date and time if it doesn't have one 2) Snowplows them ahead of you, so if you go on vacation they're still in the near future 3) Moves reminders out of the way if you accept or create a calendar event conflicting with it

It also preserves ordering when moving things (hence my snowplow approach).

Soon it'll summarize what you did that day so you can feel good about what you get done - that's coming shortly, I'm testing the feature for another few days.

There are a bunch of settings to tweak this - picking what reminder lists to include, setting a time window for when it'll reschedule things, etc.

This should link to it:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reminder-wrangler/id6759400510

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xp84 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nice try, Claude Code

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coldtea 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that meant to be a joke? I've been on HN for over a decade. Closer to ELIZA's era than that of LLMs.

I'm curious because I'm also interested in hacking the Reminders app via its API, to add some features in a side app

	▲	Schiendelman 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		If you try it out, I'm curious what you'd add! I'd be happy to make improvements.

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SllX 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Generally speaking, Apple should be improving and adding to the base operating system all the time, including new apps. It is better for their users including new users if the phone itself is capable of more out of the box.

Where they fall short though, the App Store is right there. There’s almost always a better alternative for those who value having something better.

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