Has anyone scripted Mountain Lion’s Reminders app yet?
I’m trying to make an automated system to create a series of reminders from input text, and possibly an email, if it works.
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Scripting Reminder is pretty much the same then scripting iCal Todos.
As a starter…
tell application "Reminders"
make new list with properties {name:"Test"}
set mylist to list "Test"
tell mylist
make new reminder with properties {name:"Test Reminder", body:"New Reminder"}
end tell
end tell
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Thanks sroeper, that worked a treat.
I was expecting it to be more obscure!
hello,
what I don’t understand is how to go from a text line:
“tomorrow at ten call Bob, about his new book”
where the first part is the name of the reminder
where the second part is the body of the reminder
to the actual reminder…
how does it work
make new reminder with properties {name:“Test Reminder”, body:“New Reminder”} ??
how do I get them from a text line as the one shown above?
TIA
sorry for the dummy question
please help
Not a dummy question.
I hope that you will get every wanted infos in the script below :
tell application "Reminders"
set theLists to get every list
repeat with aList in theLists
properties of aList
end repeat
set theNames to name of every list
repeat with aList in theLists
reminders of aList
end repeat
set theReminders to every reminder
repeat with aReminder in theReminders
tell aReminder
due date --> missing value
modification date --> date "samedi 4 février 2017 à 19:01:40"
body --> "New Reminder"
completed --> false
creation date --> date "samedi 4 février 2017 à 19:01:40"
name --> "Test Reminder"
completion date --> missing value
priority --> 0
remind me date --> missing value
end tell
end repeat
set testReminders to every reminder whose name starts with "Test"
--> {reminder id "x-apple-reminder://AEE217B6-57CE-4882-AD00-868A5D63A28C"}
repeat with aReminder in testReminders
tell aReminder
due date --> missing value
modification date --> date "samedi 4 février 2017 à 19:01:40"
body --> "New Reminder"
completed --> false
creation date --> date "samedi 4 février 2017 à 19:01:40"
name --> "Test Reminder"
completion date --> missing value
priority --> 0
remind me date --> missing value
end tell
end repeat
if not (exists (first reminder whose name is "call Bob")) then
tell me # Required because we can't work upon dates in the tell application "Reminders" block
set dueDate to (date (get short date string of (current date))) + (1 * days) + (10 * hours)
end tell
tell list "Test"
set newReminder to make new reminder with properties {name:"call Bob", body:" about his new book", due date:dueDate}
end tell
else
set newReminder to (first reminder whose name is "call Bob")
end if
tell newReminder
name --> "call Bob"
due date --> date "dimanche 5 février 2017 à 10:00:00"
body --> " about his new book"
end tell
end tell
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 4 février 2017 19:38:33
Thanks Yvan, but…
the script keep running with no result…
no result or error message ?
Here, as I deleted the list “Test” after posting here, now I logically get : error “Erreur dans Reminders : Il est impossible d’obtenir list "Test".” number -1728 from list “Test”.
So, I added the instructions borrowed from message #1 of this thread :
tell application "Reminders"
make new list with properties {name:"Test"}
set mylist to list "Test"
tell mylist
make new reminder with properties {name:"Test Reminder", body:"New Reminder"}
end tell
set theLists to get every list
# continue
With these instructions I got what I got the events which I got yesterdays :
# DON'T OPEN THIS ONE, IT's NOT A SCRIPT, IT's THE EVENTS LOG !!
tell application "Reminders"
make new list with properties {name:"Test"}
--> list id "FD27DB70-23F5-4D08-B395-4E8DFAA9D0C4"
get list "Test"
--> list id "FD27DB70-23F5-4D08-B395-4E8DFAA9D0C4"
make new reminder with properties {name:"Test Reminder", body:"New Reminder"}
--> reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
get every list
--> {list id "ECFE80A2-BCAA-4677-9881-51BCFB58144D", list id "FD27DB70-23F5-4D08-B395-4E8DFAA9D0C4"}
get properties of list id "ECFE80A2-BCAA-4677-9881-51BCFB58144D"
--> {name:"Sports", class:list, id:"ECFE80A2-BCAA-4677-9881-51BCFB58144D", container:missing value}
get properties of list id "FD27DB70-23F5-4D08-B395-4E8DFAA9D0C4"
--> {name:"Test", class:list, id:"FD27DB70-23F5-4D08-B395-4E8DFAA9D0C4", container:missing value}
get name of every list
--> {"Sports", "Test"}
get every reminder of list id "ECFE80A2-BCAA-4677-9881-51BCFB58144D"
--> {}
get every reminder of list id "FD27DB70-23F5-4D08-B395-4E8DFAA9D0C4"
--> {reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"}
get every reminder
--> {reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"}
get due date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> missing value
get modification date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> date "dimanche 5 février 2017 à 12:05:31"
get body of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> "New Reminder"
get completed of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> false
get creation date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> date "dimanche 5 février 2017 à 12:05:31"
get name of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> "Test Reminder"
get completion date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> missing value
get priority of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> 0
get remind me date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> missing value
get every reminder whose name starts with "Test"
--> {reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"}
get due date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> missing value
get modification date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> date "dimanche 5 février 2017 à 12:05:31"
get body of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> "New Reminder"
get completed of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> false
get creation date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> date "dimanche 5 février 2017 à 12:05:31"
get name of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> "Test Reminder"
get completion date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> missing value
get priority of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> 0
get remind me date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden"
--> missing value
exists reminder 1 whose name = "call Bob"
--> false
end tell
tell current application
current date
--> date "dimanche 5 février 2017 à 12:05:31"
end tell
tell application "Reminders"
make new reminder with properties {name:"call Bob", body:" about his new book", due date:date "lundi 6 février 2017 à 10:00:00"}
--> reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden2"
get name of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden2"
--> "call Bob"
get due date of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden2"
--> date "lundi 6 février 2017 à 10:00:00"
get body of reminder id "x-apple-reminder://hidden2"
--> " about his new book"
end tell
Résultat :
" about his new book"
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 février 2017 12:11:13
yes error message
expected end of line, etc. but found unknown token
Hey @amelchi,
Sometimes these unknown token errors can be as simple as a non-breaking-space.
This script has worked reliably for me for over a year now:
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2015/10/26 04:49
# dMod: 2016/02/23 16:09
# Appl: Reminders, Safari
# Task: Create Reminder from front Safari page.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Reminders, @Safari, @Create, @Make
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
do shell script "open -ga Reminders"
set _date to (current date) + (1 * days)
set listName to "Reminders - iCloud"
tell application "Safari"
tell front document
set _url to its URL
set _name to its name
end tell
end tell
tell application "Reminders"
activate
show list listName
tell list listName
set newReminder to make new reminder with properties {name:_name, body:_url, remind me date:_date}
show newReminder
end tell
end tell
–
Chris
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{ MacBookPro6,1 · 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 · 8GB RAM · OSX 10.12.3 }
Which OS version are you running ? Here it’s 10.12.3.
Which version of Reminders are you using ? Here it’s version 4.0 (441.9)
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 février 2017 18:02:17
@ChristopherStone
Hello
When I executed the script which is in my first message this morning, I got the message :
error “Erreur dans Reminders : Il est impossible d’obtenir list "Test".” number -1728 from list “Test”
because yesterdays I removed the list which I didn’t need.
When I added the lines listed in my second message, everything behaved well.
No way to get : expected end of line, etc. but found unknown token
The format used in the asker’s question :
“tomorrow at ten call Bob, about his new book”
let me think that he use an old version of the app.
I didn’t ran Reminders with old systems but I faced a resembling change in Notes where old versions used two lines when current one use three ones (at least if my memory is right).
As the asker gave its mail address in his message I asked him for details but have no answer at this time.
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 5 février 2017 18:13:33
hello
Sierra 10.2.4
reminders 4
in the end I wrote this…
-- Created based on code found in these sources:
-- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3956557?start=0&tstart=0
-- https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3678943?start=0&tstart=0
-- ask the user for a file:
-- set theFile to (choose file)
-- read the file contents:
set theFileContents to (read file "Users:alessandromelchiorre:Dropbox:Reminders.txt")
--Change this to the path to your downloaded text file with your tasks in it! (Note the : instead of a / between folders) Or, just name them Reminders.txt and put them in your downloads folder
-- break out the lines/paragraphs of text:
set theLines to paragraphs of theFileContents
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ": "
-- now iterate through those lines, one by one:
repeat with eachLine in theLines
tell application "Fantastical 2"
activate
parse sentence (text item 1 of eachLine) notes (text item 2 of eachLine) with add immediately
delay 2
end tell
--set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
end repeat
what do you think?
Are you really using the application Reminders.app ?
I found no file named Reminders.txt on my machine.
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 6 février 2017 10:32:32
dear Yvan,
in this case I use fantastical because of its parse capabilities of natural language…
the file “Reminders.txt” is to be created by you: it is a simple txt file with a reminder per line.
My goal is to have in one line not only a reminder but also its note as in the following example:
“tomorrow at ten call Bob, about his new book”
where the first part “tomorrow at ten call Bob” is the name of the reminder
where the second part “about his new book” is the body of the reminder
it seems simple but actually at least for me is not
salut à Vallauris, beautiful village!
amlechi
dear Yvan
another useful script is
set theFileContents to (read file "Users:alessandromelchiorreib:Dropbox:Reminders.txt")
--Change this to the path to your downloaded text file with your tasks in it! (Note the : instead of a / between folders) Or, just name them Reminders.txt and put them in your downloads folder
set theLines to paragraphs of theFileContents
repeat with eachLine in theLines
tell application "Reminders"
set mylist to list "Inbox" -- Change this to your Reminders list name
tell mylist
make new reminder at end with properties {name:eachLine, due date:current date}
end tell
end tell
end repeat
(*
-- Properties that can be set for each task
name (text) : the name of the reminder
id (text, r/o) : the unique identifier of the reminder
body (text) : the notes attached to the reminder
completed (boolean) : Is the reminder completed?
completion date (date) : the completion date of the reminder
container (list, r/o) : the container of the reminder
creation date (date, r/o) : the creation date of the reminder
due date (date) : the due date of the reminder
modification date (date, r/o) : the modification date of the reminder
remind me date (date) : the remind date of the reminder
priority (integer) : the priority of the reminder
*)
and actually it works very well… my problem (cause I am a newbie 
) is how to add properties in a proper way and how to declare the related variables (for instance note or completion date, etc.)
If you can please help,
Thanks
amelchi
I apologizes but as far as I know, there is no note property in a reminder.
Below are some instructions borrowed from my script which try to define some complementary properties.
if not (exists (first reminder whose name is "call Bob")) then
tell me # Required because we can't work upon dates in the tell application "Reminders" block
set dueDate to (date (get short date string of (current date))) + (1 * days) + (10 * hours)
set remindMeDate to dueDate - (2 * hours)
set creationDate to currentDate
set modificationDate to creationDate + (1 * minutes)
set completionDate to currentDate + (5 * minutes)
end tell
tell list "Test"
set newReminder to make new reminder with properties {name:"call Bob", body:" about his new book", due date:dueDate, remind me date:remindMeDate, priority:2, creation date:creationDate, modification date:modificationDate, completion date:completionDate, completed:true}
end tell
else
set newReminder to (first reminder whose name is "call Bob")
end if
tell newReminder
name --> "call Bob"
due date --> date "mercredi 8 février 2017 à 10:00:00"
body --> " about his new book"
priority --> 2
creation date --> date "mardi 7 février 2017 à 19:34:32"
modification date --> date "mardi 7 février 2017 à 19:34:32"
completion date --> missing value
completed --> false
end tell
As you may see, we can’t set modification date, completion date and completed.
Yvan KOENIG running Sierra 10.12.3 in French (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 7 février 2017 20:26:00