
Migrate birthdays from your phonebook to Google. Calendar
Many Windows Moblie users are likely to be actively using Google Sync . In particular, this is a very convenient thing, not only for synchronizing events in the calendar, but also the simple implementation of a backup for the phone book (no one has lost phones for a long time?). Actually, the combination of these two functions will be discussed further.
Due to the not very good memory for dates, I write the birthdays of friends and acquaintances in the phone’s address book, but I still don’t always get to know about the upcoming birthday. So what to do so that there are reminders of the upcoming holiday? Transfer the dates of birthdays to a calendar that can work as a reminder.
The solution is still quite long in time (I spent a couple of hours on about a hundred contacts), but I am ready to listen to other suggestions, if any.
So we need:
1) Google account
2) A phone with Windows Mobile and configured synchronization with Google (see link above)
3) Known dates of birth of friends (I took from VKontakte and notebook)
UPD: Two more solutions.
GreaseMonkey , thanks Aivean
Google chrome , thanks Putin
Due to the not very good memory for dates, I write the birthdays of friends and acquaintances in the phone’s address book, but I still don’t always get to know about the upcoming birthday. So what to do so that there are reminders of the upcoming holiday? Transfer the dates of birthdays to a calendar that can work as a reminder.
The solution is still quite long in time (I spent a couple of hours on about a hundred contacts), but I am ready to listen to other suggestions, if any.
So we need:
1) Google account
2) A phone with Windows Mobile and configured synchronization with Google (see link above)
3) Known dates of birth of friends (I took from VKontakte and notebook)
- Enter all birth dates in Google Contacts. Select the contact name - change - set the date - save. And so for everyone.
- Transfer contact events to your calendar.
The most interesting moment of the process. How to transfer birthdays to the calendar.
We go to Google Calendar - in the window of other calendars we click "add - view interesting calendars - additionally - birthdays and events of contacts - Subscribe". We have a calendar with birth dates ready, now you need to transfer them to your calendar, because only it is synchronized with the phone. To do this, I had to select each event through the menu of the agenda of events, then “copy to my calendar” - Repeat = Every year - save. - We synchronize our device and now it has contact reminder birthdays.
UPD: Two more solutions.
GreaseMonkey , thanks Aivean
Google chrome , thanks Putin