Alfred: Reminders Today

Display and add reminders due today.

Usage

• Display reminders due today (or overdue) via the keyword rem. Configure the hotkey for faster triggering.
  • ⏎: Complete the reminder.
  • ⌘⏎: If the reminder has a URL in title or notes, open it in the default browser. Otherwise, copy the reminder's title & notes to the clipboard. Afterward, complete the reminder.
  • ⇧⏎: "Snooze" the reminder by changing its due date to tomorrow.
  • ⌥⏎: Edit the reminders title and body in Alfred's Text View. The first line is the reminder's title, the remaining lines the notes.
  • ⌃⏎: Display completed reminders due today as well. Using ⏎ on a completed reminder marks it as uncompleted. The other modifiers work the same as with uncompleted reminders. Use ⌃⏎ once more to hide completed reminders again.
  • ⌘C: Copy the reminder title & notes.
  • ⌘L: Display the reminder details in Large Type.
  • ⌘Y: Quick Look the URL, if there is one.
  • ⏎ (on an event): If the location is a URL, open the URL. Otherwise, open Google Maps with the location.
• Quickly add a new reminder due today or tomorrow with the keywords qq, q1, and q2, respectively.
  • The command supports simple parsing of a due time with the format hh:mm. For instance, 19:00 buy milk or buy milk 19:00 will set the due time to 19:00 and the reminder title to buy milk. (Only times in the 24-hour time format are parsed.)
  • A priority can be specified by adding the respective number of !. For example, buy milk! or !buy milk will result in a reminder title buy milk with a medium priority (! = low, !! = medium, !!! = high).
  • Note that ! and due time are only parsed when at the start or the end on the input.
  • Configure the hotkey to create a reminder due today from the current selection.

Installation

Note: this workflow requires at least macOS 15.

➡️ Download the latest release of this workflow.

Limitations

Apple's EventKit API does not offer access to various Reminder metadata, which is why this workflow cannot support the following features: - The URL field of a reminder is not accessible, so only URLs in the title or notes are supported. - A reminder's tags, attachments, and flag-status are not accessible. - The macOS Reminders widget shown at the notification center or desktop do not update when reminders are added or changed via this workflow.

About the developer

In my day job, I am a sociologist studying the social mechanisms underlying the digital economy. For my PhD project, I investigate the governance of the app economy and how software ecosystems manage the tension between innovation and compatibility. If you are interested in this subject, feel free to get in touch.

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