Set reminders/notifications for contact birthdays on Google Calendar?

[Android182]

How do I make google calendar app automatically set a reminder for my contact's birthdays and other holidays?

 

[Gekko]

How do I make google calendar app automatically set a reminder for my contact's birthdays and other holidays?

Birthday reminder integration in calendar

http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...5-birthday-reminder-integration-calendar.html

 

[Android182]

Birthday reminder integration in calendar

But I'm talking about Google Calendar, not samsung's calendar.

 

[Rukbat]

Go to Google Calendar Click (or press) on the birthday you set on that date, Click on Reminders - Add a reminder. Set it to when you want - minutes, hours, days or weeks, and a popup or email. Easier to do than to have read this post.

 

[Android182]

Go to Click (or press) on the birthday you set on that date, Click on Reminders - Add a reminder. Set it to when you want - minutes, hours, days or weeks, and a popup or email. Easier to do than to have read this post.

But how do I get google calendar to automatically add a reminder like it does with your regular calendar?

 

[Rukbat]

What do you mean by "automatically add"? When you enter an event it sets a reminder? For any event? That's not a calendar, you need a reminder app, so anything you enter sends you a reminder. A calendar is something you can look at to see the date, and to see what''s happening on any given date. Google added the ability to set a reminder for a date manually.

(I don't know what you mean by "your regular calendar". Different manufacturers put different calendars in their phones. About the only "regular calendar", if any one can be called that, would be the one Google puts on the Nexus. And even in that you have to manually set the reminder - not every event automatically sends a reminder. How can it? Do you want it the day before? An hour before? By email? By alarm? The calendar can't know these things.)

 

[Android182]

What do you mean by "automatically add"? When you enter an event it sets a reminder? For any event? That's not a calendar, you need a reminder app, so anything you enter sends you a reminder. A calendar is something you can look at to see the date, and to see what''s happening on any given date. Google added the ability to set a reminder for a date manually.

(I don't know what you mean by "your regular calendar". Different manufacturers put different calendars in their phones. About the only "regular calendar", if any one can be called that, would be the one Google puts on the Nexus. And even in that you have to manually set the reminder - not every event automatically sends a reminder. How can it? Do you want it the day before? An hour before? By email? By alarm? The calendar can't know these things.)

In the google calendar app, there is a setting that when you add a new event, you can set the default reminder it will automatically add. (3 vertical dots>Settings>General settings>Default reminder time) I'm asking if there is a way for it to do the same for your contact birthdays automatically.

 

[Rukbat]

You mean will Calendar read Contacts to pick up birthdays and add them as events to send reminders for? I don't think they're that tightly integrated yet.

 

[Android182]

You mean will Calendar read Contacts to pick up birthdays and add them as events to send reminders for? I don't think they're that tightly integrated yet.

yes

 

[anon(935553)]

The ability to view your contacts birthdays and anniversaries has been a feature for years. Unfortunately the feature to set 'reminders' or 'alarms' on those birthdays is not available. People have been requesting Google do this for as long as this feature has been around and they STILL have yet to implement it.

 

[Beetlesauce]

You mean will Calendar read Contacts to pick up birthdays and add them as events to send reminders for? I don't think they're that tightly integrated yet.

I know this is an old thread and just came across it but yes they are integrated. To add birthday to Google Calendar just go to CONTACTS (via phone or app). Select the person whose birthdate you want to add. Click EDIT (the pencil object at the top). Select ADD ANOTHER FIELD. Select EVENTS. Add DATE. You should see BIRTHDATE option to the right or it could be Anniversary or some other custom date. Click SAVE at the top. Refresh or allow a minute or so to appear in Google Calendar. Google Calendar should display that person's birthdate and also now remind you EVERY year this date occurs with a popup.

 

[Diane Howard]

So that get's it into the calendar, but how do you set up the notification? Would love to be reminded a week in advance! And it used to do that!

 

[Leonardo Lombardi]

Just to clarify.
What we want is a way to bulk add reminders (get notification) for all the birthdays in google calendar, based on google contacts birthday information.
I don't want to add one at a time. I want to make a general rule for notifications for birthdays.

Right now the birthday integration between google calendar and contacts is useless, because the only way for me to know of someones birthday is if i check my calendar daily.

 

[kirankumar padarthi]

happy birthday

 

[Phoneguy108]

I know this is an old thread and just came across it but yes they are integrated. To add birthday to Google Calendar just go to CONTACTS (via phone or app). Select the person whose birthdate you want to add. Click EDIT (the pencil object at the top). Select ADD ANOTHER FIELD. Select EVENTS. Add DATE. You should see BIRTHDATE option to the right or it could be Anniversary or some other custom date. Click SAVE at the top. Refresh or allow a minute or so to appear in Google Calendar. Google Calendar should display that person's birthdate and also now remind you EVERY year this date occurs with a popup.

When I do this, the birthdays are not showing on my calendar for some reason. I thought Google fixed this issue already. My "contacts birthdays" setting in the calendar settings is turned "on". Am I missing something? Thanks.

 

[radmad15]

Go to your settings page in mail.google.com and check out the date format under the general tab at automatic response. There you should find the current date in the proper format.

Attached screenshot

That format worked for me.

 

[Anthony Lenzo]

Thank you for posting this . Really helpful.

Cheers
Anthony

 

[Parag Agarwal]

Now, you can add notifications for your google contact birthdays with the help of a script. Watch this video tutorial for more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp420KSojus

This script will send email notifications to you a day in advance of the event. It updates new events automatically at regular intervals (once in a day).

Please let me know if it does not work.

Please add this solution in the first post of this page so that everyone can benefit from it.

 

[GioBonvi]

I've already written about this here .
I had seen the solution by @Parag Agarwal (who I have to thank a lot) and although I was not able to make it work nor to understand why, I thought that it was a brilliant idea to use Google Script to accomplish this task, so I developed my own version. I made it a little more customizable and changed the core logic of the script (my script directly uses email to send notifications), however the main idea is still the same.
Here you can find the instructions to setup my script, feel free to try it and if you could give me some feedback I would be extremely grateful.
Happy birthday notifications

 

[Bart Aerts]

I've already written about this here .
I had seen the solution by @Parag Agarwal (who I have to thank a lot) and although I was not able to make it work nor to understand why, I thought that it was a brilliant idea to use Google Script to accomplish this task, so I developed my own version. I made it a little more customizable and changed the core logic of the script (my script directly uses email to send notifications), however the main idea is still the same.
Here you can find the instructions to setup my script, feel free to try it and if you could give me some feedback I would be extremely grateful.
Happy birthday notifications

Very Nice Script, thank you for giving this nice piece of code to us