Details can be read and implemented following: https://cinaq.com/blog/2022/11/22/the-missing-link-between-r...
Just yesterday someone out of nowhere contacted me while he was trying out my setup. He loved it. Hope this helps others here on HN.
Love the app, on iOS and Mac. Because it’s got a more sophisticated view on my Reminders. In today‘s view it‘ll group the reminders based on the list or other aspects.
I took a look at implementing it a year or so ago and it's a decent amount of work even to just have the non UI parts working (so that checking a task doesn't delete it if recurrence was set elsewhere)
At the end you mention the lack of timer based triggers. You can do this with Shortcut personal automations. For example, I have a WFH focus mode. I run an automation at 8am on weekdays that checks if I’m at home and if I am, it turns on WFH mode until late afternoon.
My problem with your setup is that it doesn’t update the events when I modify or complete the reminders.
Regarding trigger i meant there is no standard scheduled system like a cronjob.
The article is meant to inspire others. It solves a very specific problem i have. It’s far from perfect but does the job.
Will take a look at your WFH mode suggestion. Timer/alarm based triggers require manual run confirmation. Allowing non-interactive run is a must in my case to avoid distractions.
Personal automations are pretty close. I use them to run shortcuts at specific times.
If you wanted to run a Shortcut hourly from, say, 7 am to 7 pm, you could manually create those 13 automations or maybe you could use Jellycuts to create one and then cut-and-paste it to make the other 12.
Edit: I just searched for it and here’s an article that talks about a cron-like Shortcut:
https://www.joshholtz.com/blog/2021/06/23/automating-ios-sho...
I haven’t looked at it so I have no way of knowing if it works or if there’s an easier way to do it now (that article is two years old).
Do you have a Mac? If so maybe you could run your shortcut periodically from cron on the Mac.
I just tested and shortcuts can be run from cron (once you get cron working...[1]). For example I have a bunch of shortcuts that do things to my Denon A/V receiver, and added a crontab entry to run the one that mutes the receiver, and it worked. You can invoke shortcuts with the "shortcuts" command. E.g., here was my mute test's crontab line:
*/1 * * * * shortcuts "Denon Mute On"
[1] Apparently sometime around Catalina, when they were beefing up the permissions system and privacy protection cron stopped working unless you gave it permissions. You apparently now have to go into the "Privacy & Security" settings and /usr/sbin/cron full disk access.
Will update the article soon with this addition.
That’s odd, I have (just double checked) an automation to run a shortcut every day at 0030 on my iPad. Maybe it’s just disabled on iOS?
That has changed it seems. Thanks for pointing out.