Sections within lists support

[revenant20]

Problem

Apple Reminders supports sections (groups) within lists starting from macOS Sonoma, but the MCP server cannot read or manage them.

What was investigated

EventKit has no properties or methods on EKReminder or EKCalendar related to sections. No private API found either.

What we're waiting for

Apple to add section management to the EventKit framework.

Impact

Reminders created via the MCP server are added to the default (unsectioned) area of a list. Existing sections and their assignments are invisible to the server.

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If anyone knows a clean way to manage Reminders sections programmatically — would appreciate the input!

[mattheworiordan]

There isn't a clean way through EventKit unfortunately, sections just aren't exposed at all. I ended up going the SQLite route for remi (a new reminders CLI and MCP server): direct writes to the Reminders store, updating the CRDT token map, then triggering list-level sync via a throwaway EventKit reminder. Took a while to figure out but it's syncing reliably to iCloud now. The internals doc has the full writeup if it's useful.