Editing Blog/2025-10-17/Custom GPTs (section)

== Personal Task Management ==

[[File:Screenshot - Home Reminders MCP.png|thumb|The bridge server]]

The next day, Julie and I decided to actually build the Apple Reminders functionality. The problem with Reminders is that there's no way to access the data without using EventKit from a MacOS computer that is logged into an Apple ID that has access to that Reminders list.

So that's what we ended up doing:

# Wrote a small GUI bridge that
## has a button to request permissions
## has a button to start the HTTP server
# Used Amphetamine to keep the MacOS laptop running persistently
# Used VNC to log into the laptop's GUI to run the program
# Had the Cloudflare tunnel continue to terminate on my home server
## And forward requests to the Swift HTTP server on the MacOS laptop

Overall, it works all right. The problem is that the EventKit API is incredibly sparse. Apple doesn't allow you to assign reminders to people, has no visibility of sections or sub-lists, and doesn't know how to do subtasks.

For a short while, I had one version of the HTTP server using accessibility data to indent list items and so on in order to make sublists. In the end, it just is what it is and we don't use it a lot.

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