Can Thunderbird sync macOS Reminders with its Events?
Thunderbird has its Events, i.e. to-do list items. macOS has Reminders Reminders[1], i.e. its form of to-do list items. It seems that while the macOS Reminders app only operates on reminders which are synced with the Apple iCloud service, there is nevertheless a repository of events/reminders local to the Mac, and it is managed via the EventKit[2] API.
Can Thunderbird for macOS sync its collection of Events with the macOS collection of Reminders, perhaps by calling EventKit?
My use case is that I have a set of events which I curated on a previous version of macOS, using the previous Reminders app. When I migrated to macOS 12 Monterey, the new Reminders app refused to show me my event data unless I synced it with iCloud. I do not want to put this data on anyone's cloud. However, macOS will show me notifications for some of my events. That is evidence that the event data remains locally. I would be happy to use Thunderbird as the front end to curate this local event data. I have just migrated to Thunderbird 115, starting with 115.5.1 on macOS 12.7.1 Monterey.
[1] <https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/reminders/remnd5faf3ad/7.0/mac/12.0> [2] <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/eventkit>
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I seem to have the wrong terminology. Thunderbird calls to-do list items "Tasks". "Events" seem to be calendar items. I must have gotten confused when reading the EventKit page. Please read "Tasks" in place of "Events" above.
Thank you for these links, @sfhowes. What they tell me is:
- There exists a Thunderbird add-on called TbSync: "…a central user interface to manage cloud accounts and to synchronize their contact, task and calendar information with Thunderbird. Its main objective is to simplify the setup process for such accounts."
- TbSync uses a Thunderbird add-on called DAV-4-TbSync, which lets TbSync share task, calendars, and contacts with iCloud and other DAV-based servers.
- The Reddit link presumes syncing Thunderbird tasks with Apple reminders via iCloud, and talked about a specific glitch in how Apple treats reminders in iCloud.
I tried installing TbSync and DAV-4-TbSync. They did not give me access to the tasks which I believe exist on my local macOS system and are administered by EventKit. My only path forward was to sync with iCloud — but I am not using iCloud.
So, TbSync does not appear to give me what I seek.
I filed a TbSync enhancement request, issue #701 Request syncing with macOS EventKit, not using iCloud (enhancement request). In the future, there may be more information there.
The developer of TbSync declined enhancement request #701 for syncing with macOS EventKit, on 2024-04-01. So that is not an answer to my question here.
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