nanoreminder

A macOS quick-capture bar for Apple Reminders. Press ⌥Space anywhere, type call mom tomorrow 3pm, press Enter.

Syntax

call mom tomorrow 3pm @family !!
└── title ──┘└─ when ─┘ └list┘ └priority

• @list — which Reminders list to use. Several @s create one reminder per list: buy milk @store @work makes two independent reminders. An email address is safe — email bob@work.com tomorrow targets no list. Typing @ in the capture bar autocompletes from your real lists.
• ! !! !!! — low, medium, high priority. Only counts as its own word, so fix this! keeps its exclamation mark.
• Dates are recognized anywhere in the line: buy milk today at shop becomes "Buy milk at shop", due today.

Build

brew install xcodegen
xcodegen generate
open nanoreminder.xcodeproj

Build and run, then drag the app to /Applications.

Test

cd ReminderParser && swift test

Documentation

• Design: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-20-nanoreminder-design.md
• Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-20-nanoreminder.md
• Smoke checklist: docs/SMOKE.md

Known limitations

• Any date word is consumed, even one used as a plain noun: call Monday about the invoice reads "Monday" as the due date.
• Apple exposes no API for Reminders tags (EventKit and AppleScript both lack it), so there is no #tag support.
• Reminders created in several lists are independent items — completing one does not complete the others. That is inherent to the Reminders data model.
• pay rent end of month is unsupported.
• Recurrence is not supported: standup every monday 9am sets the time but creates a one-off reminder titled "Standup every".