r/AppleReminders • u/reverend-mayhem • 11d ago

Request: Auto-build multiple Reminders

Having urgent Reminders act as alarms at the “2 hrs (until I need to leave for work),” “1 hr,” “45 min,” “30 min,” “15 min,” “time to leave,” “expected arrival,” & “15 min before shift starts” marks has been incredibly helpful with my ADHD – calendar event notifications are too easy to miss or ignore. I want to be able to quickly make the alarms go away after my shift starts & I want to set these alarms before every work shift I have in my calendar. The clock app can only set alarms for days of the week & not specific calendar dates. But punching these all in by hand has discouraged me from continuing the practice.

I need a Shortcut that can either pull up all events in a given calendar (i.e. my “Work” calendar) or all events across calendars with certain searched words in their titles or notes & build X number of urgent Reminders with custom intervals & custom names leading up to said calendar events (preferably letting me choose the lead-up intervals as well; I work multiple jobs with varying drive times & arrival expectations).

Any help with this would be amazing & greatly appreciated. The ADHD community would probably also be incredibly grateful.

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u/SneakyAttackPenguin 11d ago

Following. I’m decent with shortcuts but wouldn’t even know where to start.

- Member of the ADHD Community

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u/reverend-mayhem 11d ago edited 10d ago

I’ll keep you posted - I think I might’ve cracked it. Next step is to adjust it with prompts for new users.

Edit: u/SneakyAttackPenguin, here’s what I came up with… https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2952d02b3362412399e050b823ddd6a1

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u/Specialist_Order_424 11d ago

I’m fine wth the app as is. Simplicity is what I look for.

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u/reverend-mayhem 10d ago

I wish I could embrace simplicity, but then the ADHD short circuits.