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.
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.
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Add contacts to group
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.
Batch-send file to a group
Asks you to pick a file, then a Contact Group, then sends that file to each person in the group one-by-one.
Show upcoming birthdays
Check for contacts whose birthdays are in the next two weeks and displays their name and the date.
Message from contact groups
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Add note to contact
Searches for contacts by group, then has you add text to place in their note field.
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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