[Design] Birthdays & Anniversaries

Philippe Bossut pbossut at osafoundation.org
Tue Aug 1 15:43:43 PDT 2006


Jim Sowers wrote:
> I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier.  Two of the most 
> common things I put on my calendar are birthdays and anniversaries.  
> Several calendars include this -- surprisingly Yahoo has it, but not 
> Google.
>
> Seems like a single field (with pull-down) in Chandler for marking 
> such an event would be a good thing.
>
> And, especially, having a birthday field in a contact entry with an 
> option to show in calendar (and/or to send a reminder email)
Since you're mentioning it, have you tried this?
    http://www.birthdayalarm.com/

You can create your own calendar and email your friends to enter their 
birthdays in. Of course, you also have to like the whole merchandizing 
around it...

Cheers,
- Philippe


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