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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Share your contact card
Shares a duplicate of your personal contact card designed only for business.
Extract email addresses
Looks through the input text for email addresses and copies them to the clipboard.
Send birthday messages
Checks for anyone whose birthday is today and starts a message to wish them a happy birthday.
Extract phone numbers
Scrapes text from input and looks for strings formatted as phone numbers.
Show previous birthdays
Check for contacts whose birthdays are in the next two weeks and displays their name and the date.
Edit gaming contact
Prompts you to enter first, last, and nickname details for a contact before adding them to a pre-programmed group. Useful for gaming friends over Discord.
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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