Recovering Notes and Reminders from Time Machine Backup

There doesn't seem to be any consistency for how Time Machine recovery works with apps. With some apps, like mail, if you're in mail when you enter Time Machine, you actually see your old (backed-up) versions of mail from which you can simply recover an email message. I just upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion and Notes and Reminders are now their own apps. If I open Time Machine with either Notes or Reminders on the screen, TM opens with a Finder window. Is there any way to recover individual Notes or Reminders (as in mail) through TM? Or, is there a way to recover an entire Notes database from TM?
Thanks,
John

First run Time Machine to make a current backup of all your files.
Next, make a backup of your current notes by mailing them to yourself.
Then backup Reminders using
Reminders > File > Export...
To restore Notes and Reminders from Time Machine:
- Login to iCloud.com.
- Notes.
- Mail each note to yourself as a backup.
- Quit iCloud.
- Reminders > File > Export...
- Turn off wi-fi.
- Quit Notes.
- Option-Go > Library > Containers .
- Enter Time Machine.
- Select a date.
- Restore com.apple.notes .
- Restore com.apple.reminders .
- Start Notes.
- Start Reminders.
- Turn on wi-fi.

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