Marco Arment

Because I went through a bunch of different, like, I kept basically recreating the reminders icon.

Like, I was like, oh, I want to represent reminders.

I mean, it is kind of the obvious icon.

Well, and so, yeah, basically every iteration I came to was like, oh, those circles are too big.

Oh, those lines are too bold.

And then I just kept reverting just to be closer and closer to the reminders icon.

And I'm like, okay, that's not going to work.

Also, I'm trying to call the app Reminder.

And I think if the icon is that similar to Apple's icon, it's going to increase the odds they're going to reject it.

Well, yes.

It's, you know, reminder colon something like, you know, never forget a note or whatever.

There's already a colon in App Store Connect because I couldn't create it without it.

But so the icon represents...

the look of a list of somebody who manages their tasks like I do with a bunch of overdue tasks.

That's what the red lines are.

Cause when you have an overdue deadline in reminders, that's what it looks like.

So it's my like abstract representation of a list of a bunch of overdue tasks.

Um, so I, yeah, I tried, I tried a bunch of different concepts.

I tried like using a check Mark, um,

And I tried like creating the shape of a notification in the corner, but like that was on the wrong side for the check mark.