Apple - How can I add reminders via the command line?
Here's another version that allows you to set the title, end date and time via command line arguments.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Make a new reminder via terminal script
# args: remind <title> <date> <time>
osascript - "$1" "$2" "$3" <<END
on run argv
set stringedAll to date (item 2 of argv & " " & item 3 of argv)
tell application "Reminders"
make new reminder with properties {name:item 1 of argv, due date:stringedAll}
end tell
end run
END
So if you were to name this script "remind" and give it executing privileges (chmod 755 remind), you could do this:
$ ./remind "Go to grocery store" 12/15/2013 10:00:00PM
osascript - title <<END
on run a
tell app "Reminders"
tell list "Reminders" of default account
make new reminder with properties {name:item 1 of a}
end
end
end
END
You could also create an Automator workflow with just an empty New Reminders Item action and then run it with automator -i title test.workflow
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See also this post at Mac OS X Hints.
Here's the same functionality as the above AppleScript; but in JXA with ES6.
#!/usr/bin/env osascript -l JavaScript
const RemindersApp = Application('Reminders');
function run(argv) {
[name, date, time] = argv;
dueDate = new Date(date + " " + time);
reminder = RemindersApp.Reminder({name: name, dueDate: dueDate});
RemindersApp.defaultList.reminders.push(reminder);
}