# Sift for Reminders — Triage layer for Reminders

> Triage layer for Reminders (iPhone/iPad app by David Barta.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sift-for-reminders/id6798245271 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [David Barta](https://appshunter.io/developer/6774627627)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 11 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-09
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sift-for-reminders/id6798245271/reviews.md

## What is Sift for Reminders?

Sift is a fast triage layer on top of Apple Reminders. It uses the lists you
already have, and there is nothing to migrate.

Your tasks stay where they are. Sift reads and writes them through EventKit,
Apple's own framework, so they remain ordinary reminders that Reminders,
Siri and every other app you use can still see. Delete Sift tomorrow and
Reminders keeps every task exactly as Sift last left it.

THE EISENHOWER LENS

Urgent against important, laid over the lists you already keep. Four
quadrants, derived from a task's due date and its priority, and adjustable
by hand whenever the derivation is wrong about your day. Pick the vocabulary
that fits: plain verbs, the classic Eisenhower labels, or one word each.

TRIAGE, NOT ANOTHER INBOX

On the Mac, one card at a time, on the keyboard, until the pile is gone.
Place it, snooze it, let it go. A task you are not going to do this week can
be put out of sight without being deleted and without being a lie.

THE DAILY REVIEW

One short ritual on the Mac that keeps the matrix honest, because a matrix
nobody revisits is a drawing. It walks what is overdue, what has gone stale
and what you are waiting on, and it ends by asking the only question that
matters: what will you actually do today?

RIGHT IN THE MENU BAR

What is burning, one click from anywhere on the Mac, plus quick add without
leaving what you are doing.

ON THE PHONE

The same matrix, the same quadrants, the same day. Everything a task can be
doing has somewhere to be: snoozed until Tuesday, waiting on someone else,
ignored until you are ready, or parked in someday. Every verb is one long
press away.

IT NEVER TOUCHES WHAT IT CANNOT SEE

Tags, subtasks, attachments and flags are invisible to EventKit, so Sift
neither shows them nor rewrites them. It never writes its own metadata into
the notes field of your tasks.

NO SERVER, NO ACCOUNT

There is nothing to sign in to. Sift keeps a small lens beside your
reminders (which quadrant a task sits in, whether it has been triaged, what
is snoozed and until when, what you focused on, what you reviewed and when,
the log of completed repeating occurrences, and your settings) and that lens
lives in your own iCloud private database, which is how the Mac and the
phone stay in step. Nobody else can read it, including us. There is no
telemetry, no analytics and no advertising identifier.

Free. No subscription.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-02

No release notes.

## More apps by David Barta

- [JARVIS – Family Hub](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jarvis-family-hub/id6785301621)

All apps by David Barta: https://appshunter.io/developer/6774627627

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