Tired of long mouse trails and cascading menus? Much can be done—and done faster—with the keyboard alone. Find out here how to use Apple Reminders efficiently on a Mac with keyboard shortcuts.
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When Jim Bridger spoke of his favorite place for camping in Yellowstone, he described it like this:
Every night, before bed, I shout as loud as I can at the mountain: “Time to get up!”
The valley is so wide and the mountain so far at Bridger’s spot that the call would dutifully return to him as an echo early in the morning just when it was… time to get up.
Now, if performing tasks to manage tasks in Reminders seems to take hours (while you wait for a mouse cursor to travel across valleys and over mountains), too, it may be time to get up to speed with keyboard shortcuts:
How to Use Apple Reminders with Keyboard Shortcuts on a Mac
To operate Apple Reminders on a Mac swiftly, you can use the following standard keyboard shortcuts:
With at Least One Task Selected or Open in Apple Reminders
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Delete selected tasks | Del or Backspace |
| Complete selected tasks | Command Shift C |
| Flag or unflag tasks | Command Shift F |
| Create a new section with the selected tasks | Command Control N |
Changing Due Dates for Selected Tasks
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Make due today | Command T |
| Make due tomorrow | Command Option T |
| Make due on the coming weekend | Command K |
| Make due next Monday | Command Option K |
With Exactly One Task Selected
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Add tags | Command Shift T |
The missing shortcut: How to Open Task Details with a Shortcut Key in Mac Reminders
Acting on the Current List
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Create a new task | Command N |
| Show completed tasks for the list | Command Shift H |
| Create a new section | Command Option N |
| Show all subtasks | Command E |
| Hide all subtasks | Command Shift E |
Changing the View and Navigating Apple Reminders
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Toggle the sidebar | Command Option S |
| Go to the first, second,… ninth pinned list | Command 1 to Command 9 |
| Reveal and focus the search field | Command F |
(How to use Apple Reminders with keyboard shortcuts on a Mac tested with macOS Sequoia 15.1; first published November 2024)