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Connect Reminders

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The reminders Reminders.app already has, iCloud or Exchange, in your Mac's notch.

You need
No token macOS asks for Reminders access once
The form asks
  • Connector name
You can watch
  • Due soon and overdue
  • New reminders
Access
Read reminders on this Mac, never complete or change them
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To connect Reminders you need nothing but the lists Reminders.app already shows. CoIsland reads them on your Mac through macOS: no password, no sign-in, and nothing leaves the Mac.

Connect Reminders in CoIsland

  1. Open Settings › Connectors, click + and choose Reminders.
  2. Keep the name reminders, or type your own.
  3. Click Test connector. macOS asks “CoIsland would like to access your Reminders”: click Allow. A success lists your lists and how many reminders are not done.
  4. Click Add Connector. There is one Reminders connector: this Mac’s reminders.

If you choose Don’t Allow, turn CoIsland on later in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Reminders.

Choose what to watch

  • Due soon and overdue lists reminders due in the next hours (a day unless you choose 1 hour to 14 days) and every overdue one. It warns a few minutes before one is due (15 unless you choose otherwise) and again once it is overdue. A reminder with a date but no time warns on its day. The ring counts down to the next one due.
  • New reminders alerts when a reminder is added to a list you pick, such as one shared with your family or team.
-- name: Due in 15 minutes
-- kind: reminders.due
-- every: 1m

lead:15m horizon:1d list:all

The kinds are reminders.due and reminders.new. lead: takes minutes or hours up to a day (0m warns only when overdue), horizon: 1h to 14d, list: a list id or list:all, and priority: high, medium or low keeps that priority and above.

What a Reminders alert shows

The reminder, its list and account, when it is due (due in 10 min, due today, overdue 2h) and its priority. Opened, it reads the reminder again with its notes, shown there only and never written to an alert. Open Reminders opens Reminders.app.

Troubleshooting

  • CoIsland has not asked macOS for your reminders yet. Press Test connector in the Reminders connector.
  • Reminders access is off. Turn CoIsland on in Privacy & Security › Reminders. Open System Settings goes there.
  • A profile on this Mac blocks access to reminders. Your organization’s device management turned it off; ask your administrator.
  • None of the lists this monitor names exist any more. Pick the lists again.

Next: the Reminders connector for what it watches.

Stuck? Open an issue on GitHub, or write to hello@coisland.app.

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