Apple Reminders
Bring your Apple Reminders lists into Chunk, put reminders on your calendar, and keep both apps in step.
Turn on Apple Reminders
Your Reminders lists show in Chunk's sidebar, and a reminder works like any task. Changes go both ways.
- Open Settings with ⌘, and choose Apple Reminders.
- Click Enable Access, then allow it when macOS asks.
- Tick the lists you want under Reminder lists. They appear in the sidebar under Reminders.
If you said no to macOS, click Open Settings, turn Chunk on in Privacy & Security → Reminders, then click Recheck.
Choose what syncs
A reminder's title, done, due date and time, repeat, notes and priority sync both ways.
Sync tags, links and subtasks, marked Beta, adds tags, the link, subtasks as a checklist, the order of lists and reminders, and list groups. It's on to begin with.
If these act up after a macOS update, turn Sync tags, links and subtasks off. The rest keeps syncing.
Put reminders on your day
- Open a Reminders list in the sidebar.
- Drag a reminder onto a time on the calendar. Its due date and time in Reminders change to match.
Reminders due today or earlier show under Today and Overdue, ready to drag onto your day.
Make a reminder on the calendar
- Right-click an empty time on the calendar and choose New reminder.
- Pick its list.
- Type its name, then click away. It's added to that list in Reminders, due at the time you clicked.
To hide reminders on the calendar, click Reminders in the Calendars menu above it.
Schedule reminders automatically
Chunk can place every reminder with a due date: at its time if it has one, or else on its day.
- Turn on Automatically schedule in Settings → Apple Reminders.
- Set Default duration, the length of a timed reminder's block. It's 30 minutes to start with.
Make and arrange lists
- To make a list, hold the pointer over the Reminders header in the sidebar, click + and type its name. It's added to Reminders.
- Right-click a list to give it an Icon or a Colour. Only the colour reaches Reminders.
- To group a list, right-click it and choose Move to Group, then a group or New Group.
- Drag lists to reorder them, or into and out of groups.
Right-click a group's header to Rename it, or choose Ungroup to remove the group and keep its lists.
Groups show only while Sync tags, links and subtasks is on.
FAQ
Do I need Automatically schedule to put a reminder on my calendar?
No. Drag any reminder onto the calendar yourself. Automatically schedule only places the ones that already have a due date.
What happens if I delete a reminder in Chunk?
It's deleted in Reminders. Ticking it off marks it done in both.
Why did my reminders disappear from Chunk?
Check Show in sidebar in Settings → Apple Reminders. Turned off, it hides your reminders everywhere in Chunk on this Mac, the calendar included. They keep syncing.
What's the difference between Allow editing, Confirm edits and the Claude switch?
They're three separate permissions. Allow editing lets Chunk change a Google or Outlook account's events. Confirm edits makes it ask before you drag, delete or convert an event. Let Claude edit calendars and reminders, in Settings → Claude, lets Claude create, change and delete events and reminders without asking.
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Download for MacUpdated 9 November 2026