How can I access the text in the clock alarm?

[Android Central Question]

I use the default alarms as reminders to do stuff - eg a task list. Some alarms are quite long with multiple tasks/text.

I have just been upgraded to the new version of Android and these are now limited to 30 characters!?

However, existing alarms which are still being triggered still show the full length of the message, so the data is still there somewhere... Any ideas how I can access it to move into a proper calendar task?