Alfred Extensions to create new reminders or notes

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Alfred Extensions to create new reminders or notes

OS X Mountain Lion ships with two new apps, Reminders and Notes, which are basically OS X counterparts of the standard iOS apps with the same names. One nice thing about these new apps is that they are scriptable.

This means that I was able to create two simple AppleScripts and thus an Alfred extensions to make a new reminder in the default list and to make a new note in the default folder.

You can view the sources of the AppleScripts below.

Examples

remind Call Mom

note University of Vienna: Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna

Download

Reminders

Notes

notes.applescript

on alfred_script(q)
  tell application "Notes"
    tell account "iCloud"
      tell folder "Notes"
        make new note with properties {name:q, body:q}
      end tell
    end tell
  end tell
end alfred_script

reminders.applescript

on alfred_script(q)
  tell application "Reminders"
    tell the default list
      make new reminder with properties {name:q}
    end tell
  end tell
end alfred_script

-> make new note with properties {name:q, body:q}

This will make it show the text as title too, instead of New Note

I had tried that yesterday and had gotten mixed results: it didn't work sometimes. But I tried it again after your suggestion and it seems to work. Thanks.

it dosent work... dosent create any new notes... why? think i did wright, its easy to add extensions to alfred.. please help.. thnxx

Hi there - great extensions, thanks very much for making them! Two quick q's for you:

1. With reminders, is it possible to set any properties, e.g. Time, date etc? I'm assuming it must be - might be worth adding to instructions, above? :)
2. With notes extension, is it possible to separate by lines, or does it just enter whatever you write after "note" as a single line?

Thanks again,

Zak

Hi. I'm happy you like the extensions.

1. It is theoretically possible to add more properties to the reminders, but it would require a much larger script. Since Alfred extensions take one line. There would need to be a parser and a standard format for entering information etc. It gets ugly pretty fast and I kept things simple.
2. It just enters whatever you write after "note" as a single line. I usually enter "note my_title" and then enter the rest in the app itself. Again, keeping things simple. ;)