Make My Day and your other apps
How Make My Day runs alongside Apple Calendar, Apple Reminders, your calendar app and your task manager — what each one is best at, and what happens if you stop.
Make My Day is not a replacement for the apps you already use. It reads and writes the same Calendar and Reminders accounts they do, so you can run it alongside anything else without choosing sides.
The short version: other apps manage the data. Make My Day decides the day.
With Apple Calendar
Every event you can see in Calendar can appear in Make My Day, from any account you’ve added to your Mac, iPhone or iPad — iCloud, Google, Exchange and the rest. Move an event here and it moves there; edit it there and it’s here the next time you look.
What stays in Calendar: setting up events with other people. Invitations, replies and rescheduling are its job, and Make My Day doesn’t try to take it over.
With Apple Reminders
Your reminder lists are your backlog. Make My Day shows the lists you choose, and pulling a task onto the day is what turns “someday” into “today at 14:00”. Completing it here completes it there.
Nothing is copied into a separate store, so a task you create in Make My Day is a normal reminder — visible in Reminders, on your watch, and in anything else that reads the same list.
What you can do here, and what stays in Reminders
In practice you can run a normal day without opening Reminders at all — and equally, nothing you do here is stuck here.
Here, written straight through to the real reminder: create and delete a task, edit its title and notes, set or clear its due date and time, change its priority, set a repeat, move it to another list, complete it, and put your tasks in the order you want. Plus two things Reminders has no place for: a duration, and a link to a goal.
Still Reminders’ job: subtasks, tags, flags, attachments, smart lists, and alarms. Alarms are shown here but edited there — Make My Day deliberately never notifies you, so it would be an odd place to set one.
That second list is the honest part. Make My Day is not trying to be your Reminders app; it’s trying to make the day out of what’s in it. If your workflow leans on tags or subtasks, keep Reminders open for those — the two are looking at the same items, so there is no cost to using both.
Making, renaming and deleting lists
You don’t have to leave for Reminders to tidy up. Make My Day can create a new list, rename one, and delete one, from the same place you choose which lists to show.
Renaming is the safe one: the list keeps its identity, so everything pointing at it — which lists you show, the order you arranged tasks in, the tasks themselves — carries straight over, and the new name appears wherever the old one was.
Deleting is not. The app says exactly what will happen before it does it: the list and all its reminders will be permanently deleted from all your devices. That is Reminders’ own behaviour, not something Make My Day adds — the list is a real list, and it goes everywhere the account goes. Make My Day only tidies up its own references afterwards.
One thing you won’t find: local, on-this-device-only reminder lists. They’re deliberately not offered, because they wouldn’t sync — and a planner that shows you tasks on your Mac that your phone has never heard of is worse than one that doesn’t.
With the calendar app you actually like
If you use a more powerful calendar app, keep it. It works on exactly the same events, because the data never moved anywhere.
A comfortable division of labour:
- Your calendar app — arranging meetings, inviting people, handling replies, managing the calendars themselves.
- Make My Day — deciding what today is for, and what you’ll actually do between the meetings.
Group events show up here in full: you’ll see who’s attending, and if the event’s description carries a video link, the way into the call is right there. You just can’t change any of it from here.
With a task manager
If your task manager syncs its lists into Apple Reminders, those lists are available in Make My Day like any other — keep your projects, tags and reviews where they live, and pull the next action onto the day when you plan.
If it keeps tasks in its own private store instead, the two simply don’t meet. That’s not a fault of either app; it’s what a closed store means. In that case, plan the day from your calendar and the lists that are available, and treat the other app as a separate world.
If you stop using Make My Day
Everything you did is still in your own accounts, because that’s where it always was. There’s no export step, no archive to rescue, and no data that only Make My Day can read. Delete it and your calendars and reminders are exactly as you left them.
That’s deliberate. A planner should earn its place every week, not hold your day hostage.
Next: Getting started walks through the first few minutes, or read about goals and how your privacy is handled.