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 Used
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.
Extra Details
Run Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Add%20birthday%20reminder
Open Shortcut deep link
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Add%20birthday%20reminder
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Add birthday reminder”
end tell
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