How can I add reminders via the command line?

Question

Once in a while it may be useful to add some reminders to Reminders.app from the command line — especially because they are synced to iCloud. Is there any way to do so?

A solution that does not rely on AppleScript is preferred: a) for performance reasons (probably silly) and b) AppleScript solutions often feel clumsy or overly verbose to me.

Answer 1

osascript - title <<END
on run a
tell app "Reminders"
tell list "Reminders" of default account
make new reminder with properties {name:item 1 of a}
end
end
end
END

You could also create an Automator workflow with just an empty New Reminders Item action and then run it with automator -i title test.workflow.

See also this post at Mac OS X Hints.