The Tips - Mac Kung Fu - page 30

2. Check the box Show This Action When The Workflow Runs; then check

Show Only The Selected Items.

3. You will now see a checkbox alongside each item of the service. Check

everything, except the Title field. You should end up with something that
looks like Figure 6, Creating a service to create new reminders . Now repeat
the earlier step 4 to save the new action.

Figure 6—Creating a service to create new reminders

Test our new service by highlighting some text, right-clicking it, and selecting
Create Reminder (or Services→Create Reminder if there's no Create Reminder
option on the menu). A dialog box should appear letting you set various
options, such as which of your Reminders lists to add the new reminder to.
Select from them, and click the Continue button. (Note that, on my test Mac,
the first time I used this new service, an additional dialog box popped up
asking if the app could access my contacts; I assume this is a bug, but
agreeing to it will do no harm.)

If Reminders is running, you'll see the entry has been added—complete with
the attributes you set—but even if it isn't, the entry is still added, as you'll
find when you next start the app.

Removing the Menu Entry
To remove the service, should you want to, open Finder, and then hit
SHIFT + COMMAND + G . In the dialog box that appears, type ~/LIBRARY/SERVICES , and hit
RETURN . Then drag the service you created to the trash. Log out and back in
again to complete the removal.