Creating reminders in ical to match calendar group

When I'm in iCal, how can I have reminders to match my calendars. For example, I have a calendar for my work events, can I create a reminder for that calendar. Right now, if I try to manually create a reminder list, if I use the same name it won't let me.

The following worked for me under 10.7.4 for calendars "On my mac". Don't know if it'll work with iCloud calendars
Quit iCal
Go to ~/Library/Calendars (if you can't see the library folder, execute this line in the Terminal: chflags nohidden ~/Library/"
There you'll see many folders with coded names ending in ".calendar". Each one of those contains one of your calendars. Open one of these folders and prewiew the info.plist file. There you should find a <key> named Title which has a <string> which contains the name of the calendar. Once you've found the calendar whose name you want to change, press the "Open with Property list editor" which should show up in Preview and change the name of the calendar. Save the changes in the Property list editor and you'll be almost done.
Before reopening iCal, you have to remove the Calendar Cache from the ~/Library/Calendars folder. This is an automatically generated file which is used by iCal to speed up. By deleting it, you basically force iCal to read all the calendars from scratch, including the one whose name we just changed.
If everything went well, the next time you launch iCal you should see a progress bar with the message "Upgrading iCal calendars", and the right name on your reminder list.

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