Birthdays and Anniversaries
BusyContacts can group contacts with upcoming dates at the top of your contact list. You can also display birthdays, anniversaries, and death anniversaries in BusyCal.
Upcoming Events
BusyContacts can automatically group contacts with upcoming dates at the top of your contact list, making it easy to see at a glance who has a special date coming up, without leaving the app. This includes birthdays, anniversaries, death anniversaries, and any other dates stored on a contact.
To enable this feature, go to BusyContacts > Settings > Views and turn on Group Upcoming Events. Use the dropdown next to the setting to choose how far ahead to look (e.g. Next 7 Days). You can also use the sub-checkboxes to control which date types are included: Birthdays, Anniversaries, Death Anniversaries, and Other Dates. Any contact with a matching date within the selected window will be promoted to the top of the list under an Upcoming section.
The Other Dates option applies to BusyContacts' Upcoming section. To display an anniversary in BusyCal, use the date label described below.
Displaying Birthdays & Anniversaries in BusyCal
To display a wedding anniversary or another annual anniversary in BusyCal:
- Edit the contact in BusyContacts.
- Add or select a date field and choose the built-in anniversary label from its label menu.
- Enter the original date, leave show dates checked, and save the contact. BusyCal repeats the anniversary every year.
- In BusyCal > Settings > General, set Contacts from to BusyContacts and enable Show Anniversaries calendar.
Custom labels such as Wedding, Wedding Anniversary, or Other are not included in BusyCal's Anniversaries calendar. BusyCal uses one anniversary date per contact from BusyContacts.
For birthdays, use the contact's birthday field and enable Show Birthdays calendar in BusyCal. For death anniversaries, use the built-in death date label and see BusyCal's Death Anniversaries settings.
The enabled calendars appear in BusyCal's Calendar List, with eligible contact dates shown as all-day events.
Show Dates in Calendar
Use show dates to choose which contacts contribute birthdays, anniversaries, and death anniversaries to BusyCal. Uncheck it on a contact to hide that contact's dates from BusyCal.
The show dates checkbox is available on contacts with date fields. If it is missing, enable Show Dates in Calendar under BusyContacts > Settings > Info Panel, or add that field to the card using the add field menu. Edit the contact and check show dates to include its supported dates in BusyCal.
The Show Dates in Calendar setting is stored locally on each Mac and does not sync between devices. If you use BusyContacts on multiple Macs, you will need to configure this setting separately on each one.