Demonstration of using AppleScript with Reminders.app

txt_to_reminders.applescript

--taken from http://benguild.com/2012/04/11/how-to-import-tasks-to-do-items-into-ios-reminders/#comment-1346894559
--set theFileContents to (read file "Users:n8henrie:Desktop:Reminders.txt") -- Change this to the path to your downloaded text file with your tasks in it! (Note the : instead of a / between folders) Or, just name them Reminders.txt and put them in your downloads folder
--set theLines to paragraphs of theFileContents

set theLines to {"task name 1", "task name 2"}
repeat with eachLine in theLines
	tell application "Reminders"
		set mylist to list "Your List Name"
		tell mylist
			make new reminder at end with properties {name:eachLine, due date:date "7/10/2014 3:00 PM"}
		end tell
	end tell
end repeat

(*
-- Properties that can be set for each task
name (text) : the name of the reminder
id (text, r/o) : the unique identifier of the reminder
body (text) : the notes attached to the reminder
completed (boolean) : Is the reminder completed?
completion date (date) : the completion date of the reminder
container (list, r/o) : the container of the reminder
creation date (date, r/o) : the creation date of the reminder
due date (date) : the due date of the reminder
modification date (date, r/o) : the modification date of the reminder
remind me date (date) : the remind date of the reminder
priority (integer) : the priority of the reminder
*)

Is there a way to script the "show" aspect of a reminder item?

What do you mean?

Thanks a lot for this example!

Helped me a lot with importing Omni-Focus CSV Export into Reminders! Added another Array with the description and copied the corresponding lines from csv into the script. Worked like a charm for about 200 entries.

since I searched for it a bit, I wanna add that you can also set the property allday due date (date) to create a reminder that has not a specific time.

Thank you @chrisgrieser! I was bashing my head trying to get rid of the time component. The allday keyword was the unlock.

Thank you for the property names! "notes" is "body", got it. This really helped.
Thanks everyone!