I am someone who forgets birthdays and anniversaries. I’ve been able to manage with apologies so far. And I’ve been thinking of having an application to track important recurring dates for a very long time. Till date, I have not acted on this.
What is the best system to manage birth dates / anniversaries / other important recurring dates?
Is it recurring events in iCal (I am on a Mac), or one of these various sites (e.g. BirthdayAlarm), or Plaxo (I really like the way it reminds for birthdays, but not everyone on my list will be online!). Is it some desktop software? Or is it some home grown system? (We have a birthday bot in Magnet, checks for upcoming employee birthdays everyday and notifies people!)
What works best for you?
I have liked my Google Calendar Mobile phone combo – they sync well and they do the needful.
You can use 2/3 methods, so in case 1 is failed, you still have another ready to aleart.
1. Google Calendar SMS settings (export your ical birthdays)
2. Reminder in Mobile
3. apt-get install birthday (Well :P)
4. Some crappy ‘birthdayreminder’ web 2.0 sites
5. Iceowl/Sunbird (iCal is better!!)
I use 1/2 and unfortunately forgot to bring my .birthday file here 🙁
Low Tech: Get someone who has better memory to notify you through a whack on the head
A bit higher tech: Good old pen-n-paper ala Getting Things Done
A slightly more high tech: One time entry into an online calendar of all the dates you want to get e-whacks about and sync it back to your mobile.
Sankarshan:
Bingo! At lease for me, that someone is the “wife”.