rahilb

Lots of Markdown enthusiasts in the thread... if you want to sync your markdown tasks to Reminders.app please pay me some money for the privilege: https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync

or just vibe your own solution :)

Seems like a nice place to plug my Mac app that syncs your obsidian tasks to Reminders.app: https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync (for me the only thing obsidian is missing on a fresh install).

It’s sandboxed; can’t make network connections and can only read the directory you select. I’m surprised Apple haven’t added OS level functionality to block network connections / folder access for non sandboxed apps, similar to running an un-notarised binary.

Building a small voice journaling app, hoping to ship in the next few days https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/anima

TestFlight link, good for 10 users: https://testflight.apple.com/join/9VREtXzq

Interesting insight, thanks.

Question for the indie developers here; do you get more paying users from Apple devices?

I’ve never even considered publishing apps for other platforms as my gut tells me juice wouldn’t be worth the squeeze. Or to put it another way, I would prefer customers who already proved they have deep(er) pockets and are price insensitive.

the cost of shipping code now approaches zero

Does anyone actually believe this is the case? I use LLMs to ‘write’ code every day, but it’s not the case for me; my job is just as difficult and other duties expand to fill the space left by Claude. Am I just bad at using the tools? Or stupid? Probably both but c’est la vie.

A little Mac app that syncs markdown tasks to Apple Reminders.

Initially I released it for obsidian: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919 but realised it works with just markdown so I rebranded the app, added some new features and increased prices.

I just released version 1.4.0 of my app ReminderSync for Obsidian!

https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

The latest version supports dataview tasks format and multiple reminder lists with Routing Rules.

I think the product is pretty much feature complete now so I’ll probably start doing some marketing and move onto coding something new. Sales until now have all been organic.

I just about qualify! My first side project that actually delivered anything: Reminder Sync for Obsidian! https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

I built it for myself after I began using Obsidian for day to day note making. A simple idea: get reminders for tasks you create in Obsidian. People seem to like it.

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919

I’m chipping away at bugs and adding features to my app Reminder Sync for Obsidian! https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

Currently working on supporting dataview tasks format and multiple reminder lists.

The app supports any markdown backed notes app, but I fear I may have limited its appeal by including Obsidian in the app name.

Edit: previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919

I'm searching for a Freelancer for small fixed price (to be agreed) work.

You should have experience in swift and swiftui, and preferably have worked on MacOS applications.

contact: {username}@turquoisehexagon.co.uk

I would probably try and use buildroot, because it seems cool.

Yes; if you add a reminder to the synced list with Siri (on iPhone for example)

- if the app is running on your MacBook the reminder is added as a task to your vault as soon as iCloud syncs it to your Mac calendar

- if the app is not running, next time it runs the Task will be added to your vault

Hi, the free version should be sufficient for most users; once installed and configured it provides:

- syncing of vault tasks to reminders (once every six hours)

- completion of vault tasks in reminders (immediately when the app is running)

- creation of tasks from reminders (also immediate while running)

- manual syncing whenever you want (click a button to sync vault tasks to reminders if you don’t want to wait for the automatic sync)

If you purchase, you get access to the following nice to have features:

- faster sync intervals (I.e. your vault is checked automatically for new tasks up to every minute)

- deletion sync: if you delete a Reminder the associated Task is deleted from the vault (immediately)

- descriptions for Reminders: the reminder description includes the note name from Obsidian; soon this will also include any child elements of the task.

- ability to only sync tasks with a due date

Like I said the free version should still be useful for most people. Once installed there is also a description of premium features on the purchase screen.

I’ll add these to the App Store description; thanks for the feedback!

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I believe the free version should be representative as a trial and also useful without upgrading. If you would like to try premium please email and I can add you to the test flight.

I designed the App to be running all the time on my MacBook as that is where I use Obsidian; during my usage I have observed syncing working with my machine plugged in and display closed. This should be possible to test yourself with the free 6 hour sync interval.

For the issue you mentioned, by any chance did you select an existing list or create a new empty list? If selecting an existing reminder list completed Reminders will be synced to the inbox. It was an untested flow, but I think it’s correct as the program ensures the list state is synced to the vault state. I believe the setup wizard recommends creating a new list, I will add a note that completed reminders will be added to your vault if you select an existing list.

Unfortunately it's App Store only right now.

BoC Maxima!

Hi, version 1.1.0 just shipped that added an option to specify a Global Filter similar to the Task Plugin global filter, so if configured only Tasks containing the filter text will be included; once configured you might wish to click Clear Cache to remove all the existing reminders and re-scan your Vault. Hope it solves your issue!

Hi, glad you like it!

Version 1.1.0 just shipped that allows you to specify a Global Filter; only Tasks containing the filter will be synced if that's what you're after? Or would you like to exclude notes from being included based on properties at the beginning of the document?

That case is definitely undefined behaviour right now; if I had to guess it would result in duplicates at the moment. I’ll work on supporting it but for now I don’t recommend it!

Hi, the email should be remindersync@turquoisehexagon.co.uk please let me know the issue you’re facing!

Thank you, it really means a lot! The video should autoplay so I hid the controls; I'll add them back though as I guess autoplay is flakey.

Thank you, this is the second request I had for filtering so I will add it.

- Deleting a Task in Obsidian that has been synced to Reminders deletes the Reminder

- Deleting a Reminder that has been synced to Obisidian deletes the Task from Obsidian (if enabled in the settings menu)

- Completing a synced task in Obsidian will complete the Reminder (on the next sync)

- Completing a synced Reminder will complete the Task in Obsidian (immediately if the app is running)

- Creating a Reminder in the synced list creates a task in a note called "Reminder Sync Inbox.md"

- Editing a Task in Obsidian and syncing deletes the previously associated Reminder and creates a new one (effectively updating the text in Reminders.app)

The only known limitation (so far) is:

- Editing a synced Reminder description in Reminders.app does not update the text of the Task in Obsidian: This is hard to solve as the original Task may contain embedded links (which are stripped to just the link text for the Reminder description). Syncing those edits back to Markdown is a difficult problem that I haven't bothered focused on yet as I feel it may not be solvable.

In case of a conflict, the state in Obsidian always wins :)

Difficulty is of course subjective; I have 10+ years of functional programming experience but was completely new to Swift; the core functionality took less than a week of 4ish hours a day. Apple's EventKit API is very developer friendly and Markdown is a well known format so that made things easier. I'm not a frontend / UI tradie so spent another few days learning SwiftUI & making things look quality (and TBH I think that quality is not where I want it to be). So to answer your question... not really?

I too had this problem so I developed an app that integrates Reminders and Obsidian to solve it; I create all my notes & tasks in Obsidian and my app syncs them to Reminders.app so you get the best of both worlds :)

HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764919

They do extract money from every sale… if rent was free the companies would be way more profitable as a major cost is removed. To put it another way, if you open a physical shop the first X% of your sales every day go only to costs and you must reach a certain amount of sales before your shop is profitable.

I guess the analogy kind of falls down as a physical business owner and move and setup somewhere else, but then they won’t have access to the mall’s traffic… actually I guess this kind of still holds up

Why though? If I build a big fancy shopping mall should I let business owners use units rent free? I’ve paid construction costs, electricity, taken the risk etc, so it’s obvious I should be able to profit from tenants otherwise I wouldn’t have built the thing in the first place. If you don’t like how I’ve built my mall you can go to the Xbox mall next door, or the PC slums where you are free to do whatever you like.

But convincing SoftBank to give you money is being a good executive.