contacts with birthdays - Esato archive

Posted by aster
Can anyone tell me where can I take contacts with birthdays. imho default contacts doesn't have this feature. May be 3rd-party program?

Thanks.

Posted by Little Jon
It's amazing how my old Psion Series 5 handled birthdays and other anniversaries beautifully. It could even show the number of years elapsed from a start date. I bought a Sony Clie and that didn't have that. When I bought a P800, I expected it would be the same as my Series 5 seeing as they related. What's going on here? Don't PDA software writers celebrate birthdays anymore?

Posted by steveburk
There is a "add field" feature in the "contacts"
You can do it there but it seems that it doesn't work perfectly with outlook

Posted by Little Jon
But it really needs to be in the Calender so that an alarm can alert you to send a card/buy a pressie.

[ This Message was edited by: Little Jon on 2003-08-05 21:05 ]

Posted by Quasar
I'm using Handy Dates. It reads the contact list, and as long as you put the birthdates in the Outlook, before syncronise.

It them loads them to Calendar.

Probably a new firmware will correct this situation.

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JF

Posted by daloon
Since migrating from nokia i also miss this feature, but instead i make a 'reminder' in the calender that i call 'birthday of [persons name] + year of birth on the date of their birth, then make it repeat every year with an alarm. Simple as that.

Posted by Little Jon
Yeah, that is one solution. It's just more elegant when the number of years elapsed is shown.

Posted by StevenK
I have been a registered user of Handy Day since v 3.0, and recently bought Handy dates to complement it with birthdays. I've found the HDates sw to be shoddy - when installed, half the time, it crashes my P800 when syncing, and often loses birthdays - they're still in my calendar, but no longer show up on handy dates - I've stopped using HDates totally. Anyone else have these problems.

Posted by anish
@Steven
Try using mobidate its similar to handy dates

Posted by craigc
not sure what's going on with handy dates. as far as i'm aware, the last release was 1.1 but i had a beta of version 2 until the trial ran out - that was months ago.

the developer was aware of the issues and seemed to have added a few features (like import dates from outlook, etc) but i have no idea why the new version was never released.

hopefully the new version will be better.

Posted by dupasquier
The last version of Handy Dates is 1.1.

It is working fine except the fact that my birthdays appear twice in Outlook now... I was told by Epocware that they are currently working on new version to fix this particular issue.

Make sure to restart your P800 after installing Handy Dates, THEN synchronize your P800 with Outlook and THEN import contacts with birthdays in Handy Dates.

BTW, I don't think Mobidate synchronizes with Outlook...

[ This Message was edited by: dupasquier on 2003-10-15 20:23 ]