Feature request: Add --urgent flag to enable alarm-style notifications

[aserador]

Summary

iOS/macOS Reminders has an "Urgent" toggle that triggers an alarm-style notification (with sound that overrides Do Not Disturb). It would be great if remindctl could set this flag via --urgent on add and edit commands.

Context

The current --priority flag (high/medium/low/none) sets the visual priority indicator, but doesn't enable the "Urgent" feature which says "Mark this reminder as urgent to set an alarm."

Proposed API

# Create urgent reminder
remindctl add "Wake up!" --due "7:00am" --urgent

# Edit existing reminder to be urgent
remindctl edit <id> --urgent

# Remove urgent flag
remindctl edit <id> --no-urgent

Use case

Automating time-critical reminders from scripts/agents where a standard notification might be missed, but an alarm-style alert would break through.

Environment

• remindctl 0.1.1
• macOS (Sequoia)
• iOS 18

[echobb8]

Ditto to this request. Urgent is kind of a big deal for me.

[mrsOwlex]

I looked into this because I want it as well, but it seems like there is no API for this at the moment. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[jower999]

Yes please implement this as its urgent for me :-)

[bdruth]

@ntbm - that's my impression as well - I tilted at this a bit and did some research and there's no API for this at this point - it seems like internally Apple is linking EventKit with AlarmKit in a way that's not exposed. I think it's telling that you can't get Siri to create an urgent reminder, either.