Press ⇧⌘A anywhere, type the way you think — 明天下午3点 开会 30min, Team sync tomorrow 2-3pm ~Work,
or just paste a whole address — and Nextor decides whether it's a Reminder or a Calendar event,
pulls out the time, location, priority, list, tags, and recurrence, and saves it to Apple Reminders /
Calendar. No app-switching, no forms.
- Global hot key ⇧⌘A — a floating quick-add panel drops in over any app (Spotlight-style), grabs focus, and returns it when dismissed.
- Glance + add — opening the panel shows your overdue / today / upcoming items grouped by day, so you see what's next before you type. Complete or reschedule them right there.
- Natural-language parsing (中文 + English), with a live preview of how your text will be interpreted before you commit.
- Reminder vs. event, decided automatically
- A time range (
9am-10am,下午3点到4点半) or a time + duration (3pm 30min,9点 1.5h) → a Calendar event. - A specific time + a place or a meeting (
6/8 15:30 東京都中央区晴海1-8-10,明天3点开会) → also a Calendar event, with the address pulled out into the event's location. - Otherwise → a Reminder (all-day if you only gave a date; timed if you gave a clock time).
- A time range (
- Bilingual location & meeting detection (rule-based NLP, JP / 中文 / EN): address & venue
cues (丁目, 階, タワー, Floor, Room,
1-8-10, …) and meeting words (会議, 开会, meeting, …). - Multi-line input — paste a whole address block; the field grows instead of clipping.
- Parses dates, times, durations, ranges, priority, lists, tags, recurrence, URLs, location, notes.
- Smart search across Reminders and Calendar with a small filter language
(
is:event due:week ~Work #urgent !!), inline complete/delete. - Localized UI — the app's own chrome follows your system language (English / 中文 / 日本語), not just the parser.
- Optional on-device LLM (Apple Intelligence, macOS 26+) refines fuzzy cases — opt-in, private, never required (the rule-based parser always runs).
- Native SwiftUI UI, menu-bar agent (no Dock icon), launch-at-login, configurable default lists.
Type the way you think — Nextor decides reminder vs. event and pulls out the time, place and recurrence:
| Add a reminder | Add an event |
|---|---|
 |
 |
Tokens are color-coded live as you type; the preview shows exactly what will be created.
Smart search across Reminders and Calendar — overdue items in red, 📍 locations, per-list colors.
Requires the Swift toolchain (Xcode or Command Line Tools).
./package.shThis builds a release binary, assembles dist/Nextor.app, embeds an icon, ad-hoc code-signs it,
and produces dist/Nextor.dmg. Then:
open dist # drag Nextor.app to /ApplicationsBuilding locally avoids Gatekeeper's quarantine, so the app launches normally.
Open Nextor.dmg, drag Nextor to Applications. Because the app is ad-hoc signed
(not notarized), the first launch needs right-click ▸ Open to confirm.
On first launch Nextor shows a short welcome and asks for Reminders and Calendar access. Both are needed to save items. You can re-check or re-grant under Settings… ▸ Access (in the menu-bar menu), or in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security.
The quick-add hot key is ⇧⌘A by default and can be changed in Settings.
Click the menu-bar icon, or press ⇧⌘A anywhere.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
↩ |
Add the reminder / event |
⌘F |
Switch to Search |
⌘N |
Switch back to Add |
esc |
Close the panel |
Word order is flexible — put the date/time wherever it reads naturally.
| You type | Result |
|---|---|
买牛奶 |
Reminder, no date |
明天下午3点 开会 |
Reminder, tomorrow 15:00 |
明天下午3点 开会 30min |
Event 15:00–15:30 |
周五 9am-10am 团队会议 |
Event with a range |
下午3点到4点半 复盘 |
Event 15:00–16:30 |
6/8 15:30 東京都中央区晴海1-8-10トリトンスクエア オフィスタワーX棟 7階 |
Event, address → location (paste multi-line) |
明天3点 和张总在星巴克见面 |
Event (meeting keyword) |
30分钟后 提醒喝水 |
Reminder in 30 min |
in 2 hours call mom |
Reminder in 2 hours |
每周一 上午10点 周会 |
Repeating reminder, weekly on Monday |
3月5日 交报告 |
All-day reminder (rolls to next year if past) |
2026-12-31 年终总结 |
All-day reminder on a date |
买菜 ~Groceries #home !! |
High-priority reminder in Groceries, tag home |
写周报 // 本周进展和下周计划 |
Reminder with notes after // |
Tokens
- Priority:
!low ·!!medium ·!!!high ·p1/p2/p3· or keywordsurgent/紧急/重要/至急 - List / calendar:
~ListName(e.g.~Work) - Tags:
#tag - Location: detected from address/venue cues, or set explicitly with
@placeat the end (e.g.lunch tomorrow 12pm @Blue Bottle) - Notes: everything after
// - Times:
下午3点,晚上8点半,中午,午後3時,3pm,3:30pm,15:00,noon - Vague times (default clock):
下午→ 14:00,早上/morning→ 9:00,tonight/今晚→ 19:00 - Durations:
30min,1h,1.5h,半小时,两个小时,1時間半,half an hour - Lead-time reminder:
提前30分钟,30分前,1 day before - All-day:
全天,all day,終日 - Recurrence:
每天 / daily,每周一 / every monday,毎週月曜,every 3 days— plus end conditions共7次 / 10 timesand持续两周 / for 2 weeks - Relative:
30分钟后,in 2 hours,in 3 days,两周后 / in 2 weeks,3个月后 / in 3 months
Works the same in 中文 / 日本語 / English (weekdays, periods, recurrence, durations all localized).
Open Search (⌘F or the menu). Free text matches titles/notes; filters narrow it down:
| Filter | Meaning |
|---|---|
is:event / is:reminder |
only events / only reminders |
is:done / is:open |
by completion |
due:today · due:tomorrow · due:week · due:overdue |
by due date |
~ListName / list:Name |
by list / calendar |
#tag |
by tag |
!!! / priority:high |
by priority |
Example: 团队 is:event due:week ~Work. Click a reminder's circle to complete it; hover a row to delete.
The parser is the brain, so it has a thorough, deterministic suite (100+ checks). Because the Command Line Tools toolchain ships neither XCTest nor swift-testing on the SPM path, the suite is a self-contained runner:
swift run NextorTests # unit tests: parsing, dates, recurrence, location, search query (118 checks)
.build/debug/Nextor --smoke-test # launch / run-loop boot check
.build/debug/Nextor --selftest-ui # headless UI/layout test (catches input clipping/growth)
Nextor --selftest-eventkit # end-to-end: create → search → delete real items + location round-trip--selftest-eventkit needs Reminders/Calendar access; it creates two clearly-labeled
Nextor self-test ✓ items, verifies search finds them, then deletes them.
Sources/
NextorCore/ Pure logic, no UI/EventKit — fully unit-tested
Models.swift ParsedItem, Priority, RecurrenceRule, Highlight
InputParser.swift Orchestrates: url → notes → priority → list → tags → recurrence → date → location
DateTimeParser.swift Bilingual date/time/duration/range engine (injectable clock)
LocationDetector.swift Address/venue cues + meeting keywords (JP/CN/EN), event classification
ChineseNumber.swift 一二三…十 → Int
SearchQuery.swift The search mini-language
Nextor/ The macOS app
main.swift AppKit bootstrap
AppDelegate.swift Menu-bar agent, wiring, self-test modes (--selftest-ui / -eventkit)
HotKeyManager.swift Carbon RegisterEventHotKey (⇧⌘A, no Accessibility needed)
PanelController.swift Borderless key-able floating panel, top-pinned growth, focus return
EventKitService.swift EKEventStore bridge: create (+ location) + search, sequential access prompts
GrowingTextView.swift Multi-line NSTextView field that grows then scrolls
LLMRefiner.swift Optional on-device FoundationModels refinement (gated, weak-linked)
PanelModel.swift Observable state for the panel
*View.swift SwiftUI: add, search, settings, components
UISelfTest.swift Headless layout assertions
NextorTests/ Self-contained assertion runner (no XCTest dependency)
Packaging/ Info.plist, entitlements, icon generator
package.sh Build → .app → sign → .dmg
The parser keeps the original string and masks each recognized span in place, so highlight offsets stay valid and the leftover text becomes the title. The clock is injectable, which is why the tests are deterministic.
- Runs on macOS 14+. Building from source needs the macOS 26 SDK (the optional Apple
Intelligence integration is weak-linked), so run
swift build/./package.shon macOS 26. CI builds and tests onlyNextorCore, which has no such requirement. - Ad-hoc signed for local/personal distribution. For sharing widely you'd add a Developer ID
signature + notarization in
package.sh. - The quick-add hot key defaults to ⇧⌘A and is customizable in Settings ▸ General.
- Date parsing favors common phrasings; very unusual constructions fall through to the title (nothing is lost — you just see it in the preview and can adjust).