Get reminders in your Mac menu bar with Reminders MenuBar

If you use the Reminders app to keep track of what you need to do or need to be reminded of on your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, you might appreciate Reminders being easily available in the Mac menu bar.

That’s exactly what the aptly named Reminders MenuBar does: it’s a free tool that puts fully interactive Reminders functionality behind a menu bar icon on MacOS, where you can quickly add new reminders, mark reminders as complete, and browse through your list of reminders. scroll through to see what else is on tap.

FWIW If you’re new to GitHub, this tutorial on how to download Mac apps from Github might be helpful, as it’s not always obvious or intuitive.

When you first open the Reminders menu bar, you have to go through the increasingly Windows-like permission screens, first granting permission to open and then granting permission to your Reminders. Once that’s done, the menu bar icon is added and easily available anywhere on the Mac.

Having Reminders in the menu bar is so useful that I wouldn’t be surprised if a future version of Reminders.app for Mac gets this feature as standard, but for now the Reminders MenuBar application is available for free on Github and is an excellent utility.

The main issue I have with the MenuBar Reminders app is that you can’t invert the sorting by date, which makes it easier to see the most recent reminders that have been added. Instead I get to see hundreds of old reminders – despite being repeatedly marked as complete, they still remain in the Reminders app – but to be clear, this is actually a long-standing problem with Reminders itself and not with the Reminders MenuBar utility.

In the screenshot example above, the Reminders app shows reminders added via Siri a decade ago, which again is just a curious long-standing artifact of the Reminders app itself and not this specific app. If you have countless old memories that were never successfully marked as completed and deleted, as many of us do, then you can experience this too.

Thanks to 512pixels for pointing out this handy little tool!

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