Automating Reminders (JXA-first, AppleScript discovery)

Relationship to the macOS automation skill

• Standalone for Reminders; reuse automating-mac-apps for permissions, shell helpers, and ObjC debugging patterns.
• PyXA Installation: To use PyXA examples in this skill, see the installation instructions in automating-mac-apps skill (PyXA Installation section).

Core Framing

Reminders works like a database: everything is accessed via specifiers (references to objects). Start by exploring the Reminders dictionary in Script Editor (switch to JavaScript view). Read properties with methods like name() or id(); write with assignments. Use .whose for efficient server-side filtering to minimize performance overhead. For creation, use constructors + .push() instead of make to avoid errors. Note: no native move command—use copy-delete instead. Priority: 1 (high), 5 (medium), 9 (low), 0 (none). Recurrence/location scripting is limited; use Shortcuts for advanced features.

Quickstart (create + alerts)

First, ensure Reminders permissions are granted (see automating-mac-apps for setup).

JXA:

try {
  const app = Application("Reminders");