Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

Greetings,

I started using Obsidian and the brilliant Obsidian Tasks plugin to manage Tasks in my notes however it didn't quite work for me as I would lose track of Tasks when away from my laptop, and there are no reminders for Tasks so it's not easy to stay on top of things.

I wrote my first macOS App to solve the problem; Reminder Sync for Obsidian. It periodically scans your Obsidian Vault for Tasks and creates Reminders for them in Reminders.app! Once your Tasks are created as Reminders they are synced through iCloud so they are also visible on iOS; this solves the main problem I had with Obsidian Tasks, allowing me to keep on top of Tasks with system Reminders and Widgets on macOS and iOS.

Other features apart from the core functionality described above are:

- Creating a Reminder adds a Task to an Inbox note in your Obsidian Vault, allowing you to create Obsidian Tasks from iOS.

- Deleting/Completing a Task in Reminders app completes/deletes the Task in your Vault

The core functionality is free, and I believe the free version should be sufficient for most users. Paid features include increased automatic sync frequency, ability to delete tasks from Reminders.app and ability to generate a description for the Reminder.

The app is available on the App Store: https://apple.co/3TH1e5s

You can view a demo video at the homepage: https://turquoisehexagon.co.uk/remindersync/

I would appreciate any feedback as it's my first solo App release!

Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks
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Was it difficult to build? I'd like syncing with other task/reminder providers from Obsidian

Interesting. I’ve found ReminderCal’s approach to synching with the Calendar pretty novel and foolproof (basically use an action in Shortcuts to sync it it across when you close Reminders), and I’d be interested to know how your works.

That said, I’ve had many, many false starts with Obsidian, and I don’t think this is enough to tilt my workflows towards it again. The Apple Notes importer does not work with images or drawings, which kind of makes the thought of transitioning kind of moot.

Also, I can’t be trusted to not fiddle around as soon as I open my vault. Notes is much less customisable, but this is a wind for consistency and ‘stability’ when I open it up to actually take notes.

Shortcuts app has just enough support to manage reminders, but automation triggers are fairly limited.

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?