Hello!
I want to use Reminders as a “watch it later” linkdump for Youtube videos. I often stumble upon interesting stuff but I don’t want to save it to my notes. Reminders is awesome for this because I can close the tab in Firefox and just mark it as done in Reminders when I have watched the video.
But getting the link into Reminders is rather tedios. I have to click on Files → Share → Reminders (in a long list of apps). I tried to write my own Popclip extension but it doesn’t work, I am not good at stuff like this.
Do you know any other ways so solve this? Maybe Shortcuts? Or Keyboard Maestro?
I don’t use Firefox, but would think it would be relatively straightforward to do with AppleScript (if scriptable) and/or Shortcuts.
For simple stuff like this, any LLM worth its salt will give you – in the case of AppleScript – the actual script to use. You can then just pop that into Shortcuts and run from there.
Why not use the watch later playlist on YouTube. Then it’s device agnostic
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Yes, but… it is a mess. It would take me months to cleanup the mess in my Youtube watchlist. And the other thing is: it would be just for Youtube videos. Let’s say I find something on another video platform. Having Watch Later in Reminders gives me the option to put hashtags in. It is less friction if I can mark it as done instead of clicking through Youtube’s ever changing UI. And if a video is really interesting I can just put some notes in it and push it to Obsidian.
The long version of it is that I was trying to find a bookmark manager for a very long time… I have settled with Obsidian doing exactly that for bookmarks. But just for stuff I want to keep.
Stuff I just want to read or watch or process later gets into Reminders. This is the only thing that works for me in the way I like it. 
I made a slight tweak to the shortcut in the link above. You’d need Actions installed for the revision to work.
So, I’ve included an Actions step (Get the title of URL) to get the title of the URL that the AppleScript outputs after it’s done its system events stuff. That can then be used as the Title for the Reminders task and the URL is just included in the URL field for the Reminder. You can obviously select a default list, too, to speed things up.
You can obviously add a keyboard shortcut to the shortcut to invoke. In Tahoe – I’m on Sequoia – I think you can run Shortcuts from spotlight. I’d use Alfred to execute it in this scenario.
Screen grab of changes…
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Wow it works. THANK YOU. I mean, that is so awesome… It automatically fetches the name… Exactly what I wanted.
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Great. May want to put in some fail safes to counter empty titles etc., but see how it goes, first.
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I ended up solving something similar with a simple share sheet + Shortcut combo. Firefox shares the URL to a custom Shortcut that creates a Reminder with the link in the notes field and sets a default list. Took five minutes to set up and now it feels native. Not elegant, but it keeps everything inside Reminders without extra apps.
Just to be clear Actions is not an “additional app,” per se. It’s a suite of actions (clue is in the name) that extends the functionality of Shortcuts. And as this a power users’ forum, not unfair to expect most would welcome the ability to boost Shortcuts’ power. Actions is stable, works across both macOS and iOS, and is made by one of the stalwarts of the indie developer community.
Whereas Shortcuts can do myriad interactions with Safari, this is curtailed with other browsers. That’s why I recommended the use of Actions to get the title of the URL as passed across from Firefox.
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