Birthday tracker

[oblivion]

Not sure where this might belong, but one of the contributors at the DonationCoder site has produced a brilliant little application for tracking birthdays for those of us who need to remember who to send cards to and when.

http://skwire.dcmembers.com/wb/pages.../birthdays.php

It's tiny, portable, and does exactly what it says on the packet.

[wdhpr]

This is something I should of used years ago. I'm so bad with birthdays I forget my own.
A few years ago I started using sunbird and then after that I started using the add-on calender for thunderbird. I now get messages 3 days in advance for birthdays. I give myself a weeks notice for my anniversary (and yes I forgot one year) I still get reminded of it now and then

[oblivion]

Originally Posted by wdhpr

A few years ago I started using sunbird and then after that I started using the add-on calender for thunderbird. I now get messages 3 days in advance for birthdays. I give myself a weeks notice for my anniversary (and yes I forgot one year) I still get reminded of it now and then

My favourite thing for this stuff was my old Psion -- the calendar app had a specific "Anniversary" view that would let you specify the start year (so you could track birthdays where you needed to buy a card with a number on it ) and although Sunbird / Lightning will let you record birthdays and remind you in time for them, there's nothing else I've come across that actually understands what you want to know -- what date, how old they'll be, and give you that in a simple view so you can plan the next month's card-buying without a lot of messing about.

Oh, and although anniversaries aren't handled specifically, they ARE something else you often need to know the number of years associated with. Especially your own.

This IS perhaps one for people with large families with a fair few kids to worry about, I guess, but the birthdays app does what my old Psion did, and I know of nothing else that will.

-- bests, Tim