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Use the shortcut menu. Click “See all Reminders.” In the

resulting list, the for each item opens a shortcut menu that
contains Complete and Delete buttons.

Use checkboxes. Click “See all Reminders”; in the resulting list,

choose the button. Suddenly, every to-do sprouts a checkbox,
which makes it easy to dismiss a bunch of them in a hurry
(Figure 5-4, right).

Tip

Starting in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update, any reminders or lists you manage with Cortana
show up automatically in Microsoft To-Do. That’s an electronic to-do list you can access on the
web (to-do.microsoft.com), on your phone (apps for iPhone and Android), or on your PC (as a
Microsoft Store app).

Lists

As it turns out, Cortana is really good at maintaining lists. Shopping lists,
reading lists, to-do lists, gift lists, invitation lists—anything you can think

of.

You create a list just as you’d expect, by saying, for example, “Make a
grocery list,” “Create a movies list,” “Set up a list of gift ideas,” or

whatever.

From now on, you can add an item to a list by saying, “Add Finding Nemo
3 to my movies list,” “Put bok choy on the grocery list,” “Add whittling

lessons to my to-do list,” and so on.

Later comes the payoff: reviewing your lists. Say, “Let’s see my movies
list,” “Show me my bucket list,” “Read my grocery list,” “Show what’s on

my gift list,” and so on.

Result: Cortana obeys you and shows a summary box of your command,
like the one shown in Figure 5-5. Often, a Suggestions panel includes one-

click buttons for adding similar items to the open list.