Mind matters

If you’re like me, you are probably having difficulty remembering all your friends birthdays, and if you’re even more like me, you value the reaction of people whos birthday you remember. It’s a way for me to show them that I care by remembering days that hold importance to their lifes. But beware! Not all are happy to be reminded of the fact that they’re getting older!

For a while I solved this by creating a database and connecting it to a daily scheduler that every day went through the database and sent me an email of all the birthdays I wanted to keep track of that were upcoming the next week.

The only drawback was that it was hard to get a view of the coming birthdays, like if I wanted to view who had birthdays on a specifik week, or two weeks into the future.

Today I’ve solved it by putting all the people whos birtdays I want to track into my Outlook calendar. I’ve created reocurring day-events, with a year as the interval. I’ve also attatched an alarm to each event that goes off 2 days before the birthday, if I happen to miss it in my calendar. In the created day-event I also record what year the person was born, that way I know how old they’ll be too

Do you have any way of tracking your friends birthdays? If you do, I invite you to share it with me, so I can see if there’s even better ways of doing it!

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