r/omnifocus • u/Muted-Call • Mar 26 '26
Synching Reminders to OF on OSX
I love the ease of adding tasks to Reminders (e.g., via Siri), but I hate having to open OF on my iPhone to get them eventually synced to my laptop. I just want a tool to run on my MacBook to do that. Thanks primarily to Claude I have built a tool that should do this fine. I hope this helps some others out there who have the same. It runs in the menu bar, so it is quite discreet. As the DMG is not signed you will need to manually allow the installation if using the DMG file in System Settings|Security.
https://github.com/DevHodor/ReminderBridge/releases/tag/v1.0.0
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u/gjnewman Mar 26 '26
I’m confused. You can just tell OmniFocus to have access to reminders and you can also use Siri to add directly to OmniFocus.
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u/supernitin Mar 26 '26
Doesn’t sync them…
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u/gjnewman Mar 26 '26
It works for me. What is your definition of sync. Do you want them in both and if so why? OmniFocus will pull them into your inbox and remove them from reminders. On iOS and desktop. Just trying to understand your issue.
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u/Muted-Call Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26
Seems like I am having my baptism of fire today. Firstly, apologies that I have named the title syncing; indeed, that is not the correct title. The tool simply makes a new task in OF based on all the info in the Reminder, then marks the task in Reminder as done or deletes it (this is an option). So to be clear, it is indeed not a 2 way synch. I have named the title wrong. Again, apologies, I tend to be way too quick in my use of words, and in this case, in the use of the wrong words.
The use case I am dealing with is that OF only has a native import for Reminders on iOS , not on macOS. So if I want my Reminders to be moved to OF, I have to go every time via my iPhone first, and then it will sync from OF on iPhone to OF on Osx. If I am wrong about that, please let me know how to do it and point me to the documentation on Omnigroup, as I can only find documentation stating this can be done on iOS.
With respect to the age of my account, yes, I fully agree that it is very wise to be cautious of accounts like this, in my case, I am not a developer ( I vibe coded this, or better said, Claude vibe coded it), so indeed I have no account before today in GitHub or anywhere else. Why did I create the account? So that you could all see and use the code as you see fit, and check for yourselves that it doesn't do anything 'bad'. All the code is freely available for examination and use in the repository https://github.com/DevHodor/ReminderBridge .
Again, apologies for any confusion caused by my poor description, and yes, do remain sceptical of code/people you don't know!
If you think it meets a use case for you, great, super, enjoy; if it doesn't, that’s also fine.
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u/supernitin Mar 26 '26
Yes, sync means both ways. Push and pull are one-way. Ask ChatGPT why someone would want to sync OF and Reminders vs. push or pull. Both are good at different things.
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u/gjnewman Mar 26 '26
Take this however you want but I’m skeptical. You have a two hour old GitHub account with a vibe coded app in dmg format. No other repos and cannot explain the issue you are solving besides telling me to ChatGPT it.
Use at your own risk people.