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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: mosmi on Sunday 19 February 23 03:03 GMT (UK)
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Hello,
I'd like to create a calendar entry/reminder of anniversaries for some of my ancestors in Apple's Calendar app, on my Mac and iPhone, for things like birthdays and weddings. I thought it'd just be a quick and interesting way to bring my predecessors into my daily life.
The attached screenshot is what I'm looking to achieve - a dynamic update, taking into account the year the event happened to generate "xxxx's yy-th birthday".
But the only way I appear to be able to achieve this is by creating fake contact entries in my address book for my ancestors who are no longer alive, which would be more than a little spooky! Is there any other way of achieving this?
It's something I thought would be pretty simple initially, but in practice appears to be anything but. For example, an alternative would involve creating a static yearly event in the Calendar app, but then I wouldn't get the dynamic information about how many years its been since they were born/married, which is one of the main things I'm trying to achieve.
Ideally, the other thing I'd like to do would be able to have these in a filterable calendar, in the same way that's possible for "Work", "Family', etc, and distinct from the birthdays of friends/family who are alive, so that I could switch it on and off when it would be useful to do so.
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An app, Family GTG does exactly what you want.
Mrs Zaph