Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
Add birthday reminder
Set a reminder 6 days before a selected contact’s birthday.
Actions
Adjust Date
Adds or subtracts an amount of time from the date passed into the action.
Add New Reminder
Creates a new reminder and adds it to the selected list of reminders.
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Create follow-up tasks
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Message from Contact Groups
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Show previous birthdays
Check for contacts whose birthdays are in the next two weeks and displays their name and the date.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20birthday%20reminder
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20birthday%20reminder
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Add birthday reminder”
end tell
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