Ive been looking high and low for a script that would automatically create an event for every new reminder. Lets say I add "purchase a mac" with a due date on nov 13 5pm, an event would be created "purchase a mac" on the corresponding calendar at 5pm on that date!
Anyone who knows of/can create and share such a solution?
OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Hi,
This would do the basics of what you ask. However I would recommend some level of error checking (i.e. if the event has no due date, if the calendar does not exist in the Calendar application etc.). You would also need to run the script after each time you enter the item in Reminders.
-- John Maisey --
-- www.nhoj.co.uk --
-- 12 Nov 2013 --
tell application "Reminders"
set myReminder to last item of reminders
set myCal to (name of (container of myReminder)) -- name of list
set myTitle to (name of myReminder)
set myDate to (due date of myReminder)
end tell
tell application "Calendar"
launch -- open Calendar app if not already running
delay 0.2 -- due to Calendar not being responsive to Apple Events just after launch
tell calendar myCal to make new event at the end of events with properties {summary:myTitle, start date:myDate}
end tellBest wishes
John M
Hi,
This would do the basics of what you ask. However I would recommend some level of error checking (i.e. if the event has no due date, if the calendar does not exist in the Calendar application etc.). You would also need to run the script after each time you enter the item in Reminders.
-- John Maisey --
-- www.nhoj.co.uk --
-- 12 Nov 2013 --
tell application "Reminders"
set myReminder to last item of reminders
set myCal to (name of (container of myReminder)) -- name of list
set myTitle to (name of myReminder)
set myDate to (due date of myReminder)
end tell
tell application "Calendar"
launch -- open Calendar app if not already running
delay 0.2 -- due to Calendar not being responsive to Apple Events just after launch
tell calendar myCal to make new event at the end of events with properties {summary:myTitle, start date:myDate}
end tellBest wishes
John M
Thank you SO MUCH! This really helped me to start experimenting back and forth. I actually managed to extend the script alot from your excellent starting point.
But, I soon realized I actually wanted it to work the other way around! *darn* e.g a script that would create a reminder for every new event...
Ive tried to create the solution myself;
tell application "Calendar"
tell calendar "Important Icloud"
set today to (current date)
set this_year to year of today
set this_month to month of today
set this_day to day of today
repeat with c in every event
set d to start date of c
set the_year to year of d
set the_month to month of d
set the_day to day of d
if (the_year = this_year) and (the_month = this_month) and (the_day = this_day) then
show c
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
tell application "Reminders"
set newremin to makenewreminder
set name of newremin to reminTitle
end tell
Not only doesnt this work, its alot of unnessesary code.
Any chance of mercy? 🙂
Maybe something like this?
tell application "iCal"
set d to the current date
repeat with c in every calendar
tell c
if exists event 1 then
set e to (get every event where ((its start date ≤ d) and (its end date ≥ d)))
if (e is not {}) then return first item of e
else
return missing value
end if
end tell
end repeat
end tell
Or this?
-- John Maisey --
-- www.nhoj.co.uk --
-- 13 Nov 2013 --
set myCalendarName to "Calendar Name" -- < change this name.
tell application "Calendar"
tell calendar myCalendarName
set myEvent to last item of events
end tell
set myTitle to summary of myEvent
set myDate to start date of myEvent
end tell
tell application "Reminders"
tell list myCalendarName to make new reminder at the end of reminders with properties {name:myTitle, due date:myDate}
end tellAfter a sligth change of plans Im so close to what I want. Instead of reminders Im going with things and the script now looks like this;
tell application "Calendar"
set todaysDate to current date
set time of todaysDate to 0
repeat with c in calendar "Det"
set theEvents to (every event of c whose start date ≥ todaysDate)
repeat with current_event in theEvents
set out to summary of current_event & ""
set myDate to start date of current_event
set myContext to location of current_event
set myNote to description of current_event
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
tell application "Things"
set newToDo to make new to do ¬
with properties {name:out, due date:myDate, notes:myNote} ¬
at beginning of project "Det"
set notes of newToDo to myNote
set due date of newToDo to myDate
set tag names of newToDo to myContext
end tell
This works great but has one problem. Only one todo is created despite all of the relevant info from the calendar i gathered. It probably has something to do with a missing "repeat with.." in the "tell things" part of the script. I tried to add a "repeat with..." command but so far I only managed to make the same single todo duplicate itself, rather than populate the list with todos based on all gathered events.
The goal is to get all future (or just all) events from specific calendar into things where the different info of the event (notes etc) translates into things´s notes and so on.
Im close, but I would never hav gotten this far without your help! Thanks!
I'm glad it helped. The reason why you only have one todo is that after the by calendar repeat and the by event repeat the variables set only come from the last event of the last calendar.
Put the 'tell app "Things"' block inside the loop. Doing this can sometimes cause a terminology clash between two app's scripting dictionaries. I cannot check for that in this case as I do not have Things installed. (you could also put it the code into a sub-routine http://www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/sbrt/ but I won't go into that)
John M
tell application "Calendar"
set todaysDate to current date
set time of todaysDate to 0
repeat with c in calendar "Det"
set theEvents to (every event of c whose start date ≥ todaysDate)
repeat with current_event in theEvents
set out to summary of current_event & ""
set myDate to start date of current_event
set myContext to location of current_event
set myNote to description of current_event
tell application "Things"
set newToDo to make new to do ¬
with properties {name:out, due date:myDate, notes:myNote} ¬
at beginning of project "Det"
set notes of newToDo to myNote
set due date of newToDo to myDate
set tag names of newToDo to myContext
end tell
end repeat
end repeat
end tellYou Sir, just made my day. Thank you very very much, it worked perfectly!
Sendinga alot of karma your way!
I'm glad it helped.
I very thankful for all your help but I ahve yet another question which is driving me crazy! (And you seem to know this like back of your hand)
Another script im working on:
tell application "Reminders"
repeat with i from 1 to (count of every reminder of list "x")
set theReminder to (the first reminder of list "x" whose completed = false)
set reminderName to the name of theReminder
if due date of theReminderexists then deletetheReminder
end repeat
end tell
tell application "Calendar"
repeat with c in calendar "x"
set theEvents to (every event of c)
repeat with current_event in theEvents
set myTitle to summary of current_event
set myDate to start date of current_event
set myNote to description of current_event
tell application "Reminders"
tell list "x"
if myNote is missing value then
makenewreminderat the end of reminderswith properties {name:myTitle, due date:myDate}
else
makenewreminderat the end of reminderswith properties {name:myTitle, due date:myDate, body:myNote}
end if
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end repeat
end tell
This script works just the way I want it to! Problem is, when I change the target calendar&reminder from "x" to "y" (just another set of calendar/reminder list) IT DOESNT WORK!! How can it work perfectly for on set of calendar/reminder lists but fail in others using the exact same script!? (Besides from the specified target lists, that is)
WHY?? Can you point me in the right direction?
Hi,
I'm not sure why it would work in one calendar and not another. There are some possible issues and if you could let me know what you expect to be happening I amy be able to see better what is not working.
I will say there will be an issue in the reminders repeat when you start looping through the number of items then deleting some of the items you can get to a point where there are not enough items.. It is possible you will get to a point where there are no reminders uncompleted, so the variable 'theReminder' does not contain anything on that loop and the script will stop. Do you use the variable 'reminderName' anywhere else? I'd sugget not using the 'count' but getting an array of the items and then looping through them with a reference to the item (if that makes any sense).
Also I'm not sure what the line 'repeat with c in calendar "x"' is doing. I expect this is meant to be 'repeat with c in events of calendar "x"', but I'm not sure.
Would something like this work for both calendars?
set myListCalendarName to "x"
tell application "Reminders"
set theReminders to (reminders of list myListCalendarName whose (completed is false))
repeat with thisReminder in theReminders
if due date of thisReminder exists then delete thisReminder
end repeat
end tell
tell application "Calendar"
repeat with current_event in (every event of calendar myListCalendarName)
set myTitle to summary of current_event
set myDate to start date of current_event
set myNote to description of current_event
tell application "Reminders"
tell list myListCalendarName
if myNote is missing value then
make new reminder at the end of reminders with properties {name:myTitle, due date:myDate}
else
make new reminder at the end of reminders with properties {name:myTitle, due date:myDate, body:myNote}
end if
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end tellI just figured it out! The script was confused due to the fact that the calendar and the reminder list had the same name! Somehow I got it to work in one set of calendars/reminders.... well well It works evrywhere by simply naming the reminder list "x" and the calendar "x1" and so on.
Thanks for the support and all your help though!!
Applescript for integration of reminders and events?