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.
Scripting 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.
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
More From This Folder
Create a contact card
Asks you to enter in contact information, then generates a .VCF vcard file out of your answers and shares it.
Send birthday messages
Checks for anyone whose birthday is today and starts a message to wish them a happy birthday.
Extract email addresses
Looks through the input text for email addresses and copies them to the clipboard.
Add contacts to group
Asks you to select a Contact Group, then creates reminders to follow up with each person in that group.
Share your contact card
Shares a duplicate of your personal contact card designed only for business.
Extract phone numbers
Scrapes text from input and looks for strings formatted as phone numbers.
More From The Library
Show my Menu Bar shortcuts
Use this shortcut to sort the list of shortcuts that appear in the Menu Bar on macOS.
Toggle the Christmas lights
Turns your HomeKit Christmas lights on/off depending on the current state.
Set up Perplexity for Mac
Opens the Mac app for Perplexity AI, resizing the window to 1024×770 and moving it to the center of the current display.
Remove empty lines
Uses a regular expressions to automatically get rid of new lines that don’t have any text in them.
Open Browsing History on Amazon
Opens your recently-viewed items on Amazon so you can back to something you were just looking at.
Play my latest voice memo
Immediately starts playing the most recent voice memo taken.
Get way deeper into Shortcuts – become a member.
Browse more
Shortcuts Membership
Enhance your experience with bonus shortcuts, folder bundles, and exclusive perks.
Action Directory
Discover endless possibilities by combining the building blocks for Shortcuts.