# Reminders as checklists in Obsidian

A checklist file per list in your vault, every due date a field.

## Steps

1. Connect Reminders. Press "connect" on the Reminders card and select the folder the panel opens in. Exporter reads the Reminders store there and nothing else.
2. Pick a folder inside your vault. Press "select export folder" and choose a folder in the vault, like `Reminders`. A folder right in your home gets a `reminders-export` folder made inside it; a folder inside a vault is used as it is.
3. Choose the lists. Every list is ticked. Untick the ones you do not want in the vault; the "shared" pill shows the lists other people share with you, and "recent" the ones that changed last.
4. Press "sync now". Each list becomes one file, `groceries.md`, with a checkbox line per reminder. From then on a list is rewritten within a minute of a change in Reminders.
5. Query them. In Obsidian, a Dataview task query over the folder lists what is due: `TASK FROM "Reminders" WHERE !completed AND due`.

## What you get

One file per list. Each reminder is a checkbox line with its title, then the fields Dataview reads inline: `due`, `priority`, `flagged`, `notes`, `url`, `recurring` and the reminder's hashtags. Subtasks are indented under their parent. Completed reminders sit under a `Completed` heading, so the file is the history of the list, not just today's to-dos. Every line ends with a link that opens the reminder in Reminders and a block id, so a daily note can point at one line. A shared list names its owner in the front matter. Images attached to a reminder are copied into `attachments/` and embedded under the line.

## Pitfalls

- The sync is one way. Ticking a box in Obsidian does not complete the reminder; the next sync rewrites the line from Reminders. Tick in Reminders.
- Your first 100 reminders are free, newest first. A list with more than that holds only the free ones until you unlock Reminders, and then fills up on the next sync.
- Two lists with the same name each get a short id suffix in the file name. Rename one of them in Reminders if you want clean names.

## Related

- [Reminders](https://exporter.dev/docs/reminders): List files, fields and fixes
- [Apple Notes to Obsidian](https://exporter.dev/guides/notes/apple-notes-to-obsidian): A vault that follows Apple Notes
- [Reminders](https://exporter.dev/reminders): Every list as a Markdown checklist

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human version: https://exporter.dev/guides/reminders/reminders-to-obsidian
every page: https://exporter.dev/llms.txt