A Smart List in Apple Reminders that only shows your errands when you're near the store

This one took me a while to think of but it's been solid. Reminders has a location filter for Smart Lists, and pairing it with a tag gives you a list that basically only lights up when you're somewhere you can act on it.

Here's the setup. Tag your errands with something like errands, then build a Smart List filtering for that tag plus a specific location, match all. Point the location at a store you go to often. Now that list only shows the stuff you can actually do at that store, and it stays quiet everywhere else.

The nice part is it turns your errands into a place thing instead of a time thing. You're not setting a due date and hoping you remember. The list just surfaces the right tasks when you're near the spot, so buy batteries shows up when you're at the hardware store and nowhere else.

It does lean on you tagging things properly, so it's only as good as the habit behind it. And you're picking one specific store per list, not a category, so if you shop at a few different places for the same stuff you end up building a couple of these.

Still, for regular runs to the same handful of places it's been worth it.