ups lol being able to read a text would give me a clear advantage :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:
The word google was just to often in the text for me to realise

@Sean yeah it kind of has the advantage to show multiple events at the same time better. Therefor I prefer this design a lot, so still have to think about which one I will go with. The static structure is not that much of a problem for me then I will just change it to my needs ;) The design part is what I absolutely suck in xD

Ik I will do that probably ;)
Well first I still need to set my calendar up since I want to finally self host it to get away from google and similar stuff there. But converting from cal dav or csv to convert to this format should not be a that big deal.

@Sean really like the design :) (although with my daily schedule this would a pain in the arse to manage lol)
Might be interesting to combine this with a normal calendar so you just give it a csv file for example it can use, so you do not have to copy the whole calendar into the new format

Oh I did not even know ring is a product :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_cold_sweat:

@Sean same about me just guessing ^^ Never used any cloud based voice solution (always using snips)
Still need to post my MagicMirror stuff with snips when I get time and a camera to make a good video on it

Set Up Permissions
In order for your skill to have read or write access to customers’ Alexa lists, it must have the appropriate permissions which you can set up in the developer console. Request Lists Read or Lists Write permissions in your skill only when they are required to support the features and services provided by your skill.
Edit your skill in the developer console.
Navigate to the Build > Permissions page.
Select the Lists Read or Lists Write check boxes, or both, depending on the requirements of your skill.

So you need to ask the for permission for you skill. Although thats still a workaround over a second skill and you can’t directly access them I guess

@Sean I am totally not in the amazon world so I can’t test the stuff, but it seems you can get the items (at least amazon says so

https://github.com/alexa/alexa-cookbook/blob/master/context/lists/src/index.js

thats a example on how to retrieve the list and add/delete items

MMM-MirrorMirrorOnTheWall is a module for using Alexa with MagicMirror. It allows you to hide and show stuff. You generally have Alexa running (wether with normal Alexa or Alexa Pi is not important) and then the Magic Mirror module just calls the API to receive the intent of what you said.
So you can absolutely use it with you normal Alexa. I would just take the MirrorOn TheWall module (might be interesting on it’s own with hiding showing modules and stuff already), so you see how the API with your key gets called and the intents receivedv and just replace the reaction of it by the code for showing you shopping list (you can for example take a big part of it from a shopping list module that has a design you like ;)).
So it should be a fairly easy thing to do. I am personally not using any cloud based voice recognitions for the privacy issue, but doing something similar with a offline speech recognition is definetly on my toDo for this or next week ^^

Those are different types of variables:
The first one is a number the second one a string. Boolean only has the values true and false which are exactly the same as writing 1 and 0. the true and false statement is there for readability in the code but gets replaced by 1 and 0 when executing the program ;)
So when you put quotes to the number it is a text that includes this number, but you need it as a number you can use for example for calculations (obviously convertions are possible)
For strings usually you can use either double or single quotes and both will work. it is usually a thing of consistency (which on is already used) which one you choose.
However there are a couple advantages in using double quotes.

1. JSON notation is written with double quotes (although it might work with single quotes aswell)
2. double quotes are more convenient when your already familiar with other programming languages like C that often use double quotes for strings
3. for people without programming experience double quotes are already familiar from their language where a text is marked with double quotes aswell
4. When you need a single quote in the text you can write
   “It’s a boy”, but you would have to write ‘It's a boy’ using single quotes to mark that the single quote does not end the string.
   However when you use double quotes in the string to mark a text inside it’s the other way around :
   you could write ‘Simon says: “I am happy”’ but with double quotes you need to write “Simon says: "I am happy"”

Hope I could clear the confusion a bit.