Refer existing reminder from text actions?

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Hi,

I’m just wondering whether it’s possible to refer an existing reminder via a text actions by using something \remind()? ← this one doesn’t work, I checked :wink:

My use case is:

  • I’m using Apple Reminders to manage my tasks (using lists, tags and due dates)
  • I have a shortcut that adds my daily agenda to a “yyyy-mm-dd Daily Note” - the agenda is formatted as a markdown checklist for the day
  • I’d like to have a possibility to include the reminder with the lovely Agenda’s clock icon, as it’d allow me to manipulate the reminder directly from Agenda

Right now I have a workaround using a few shortcuts - one to add #Doing tag, to mark the tag as in progress, one to mark the task as complete

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Being able to refer the reminders would be awesome, but it’s a nice to have feature for me if it doesn’t exist already.

Thank you for the coolest tool on my Mac (and phone)!

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Seems like it would be tricky. To begin with, how would we identify the reminder in the Reminders app. Would need some sort of search. I don’t think just matching the title would work very well, because there are lots of duplicates usually.

Let us know if you have ideas about how it would work.

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My case is mostly for automation. All Reminders have a UUID, and that’s what could be used. Something like \remind(2D0E6533-79D4-45E9-BF9B-BF4A8B9C871F) would refer to a reminder with that UUID.

I’m actually doing something similar via shortcuts.

Here’s the flow of my shortcut (simplified a bit):

  1. Get a list of all reminders that are overdue (due date before today)
  2. For each reminder, get its UUID.
  3. Create two links to shortcuts changing the particular reminder:
    3.1. Set as #Doing - shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=MarkReminderDoing&input=text&text=
    3.2. Mark complete - shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=MarkReminderDone&input=text&text=
  4. Create a markdown checklist item that looks like this:
  • :rotating_light: Website Checklist update - :rocket: | :checkered_flag:
  1. Repeat for all items on the list

And then do it two more times for “Today” and “Next 3 days” reminders.

Having the ability to refer using native Agenda’s interface would make it easier to work with the reminders without shortcuts or opening the Reminders app.

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OK, thanks for the details. We’ll take it along.

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