Select Contact
Prompts to pick a person from your contacts and passes the selection to the next action.
Add a birthday
Choose a contact and insert their birthday.
Scripting Actions
Edit Contact
Sets a specific field of the contact passed into the action.
Detail
The property of the contact to edit.
Edit
The operation to perform on the selected property of the contact.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20a%20birthday
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20a%20birthday
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Add a birthday”
end tell
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Creates a new blank contact in the Contacts app, so you can use the app UI to enter in details.
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Scrapes text from input and looks for strings formatted as phone numbers.
Show upcoming birthdays
Check for contacts whose birthdays are in the next two weeks and displays their name and the date.
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