Contact birthdays appear on Calendar
Proton Contacts allows users to record the birthday for each contact. It would be great if these birthdays could automatically appear in Proton Calendar.
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botongrui commented
Bomott's python script works for a vcf contact list exported from Google, the ICS imports to Proton Calendar successfully
I couldn't get PIPENV to work, so did
pip install icalendar vobject
Then execute python convert.py --title "Birthday" input.vcf output.ics
Create new proton calendar Birthdays, and import the ics file into it
Next year delete calendar Birthdays and run script again to generate new 'ages'
:-) Thanks Bomott!
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YOW61 commented
I agree that optionally activating the Birthday and/or Anniversary recorded for a Contact is a good idea...I wouldn't want every one of my contact's for whom I have that information showing up in my Proton Calendar. If activated to sync with Proton Calendar and the contact's Birthday and/or Anniversary is recorded with a year as part of the date, then I'd like to see the number of occurrences (i.e. age) since that year displayed in the Proton Calendar entry alongside their name and the event, e.g. for contact John Smith with the birthday December 21, 2002 show an all-day entry on December 21, 2023 as 'John Smith (Birthday, 21)' or something similar. The ability to set one or more reminders against the Birthday and Anniversary items for the Contact would also be very useful and have these automatically populated into Proton Calendar. Ideally all of these events would be implemented via a read-only 'Contacts' calendar automatically maintained from the Proton Contacts data with the ability to toggle the visibility of these 'Contacts' calendar events in the Proton Calendar apps and web views (as Google currently does).
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Shantos commented
I will not use the calendar without this function
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Marc Kuniansky commented
If this was implemented it would be the last thing keeping me from exclusively using Proton Calendar. I already use Protonmail for 99% of my email and contact management, this would be the icing on the cake.
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Maikel Mast commented
This is the only reason why I can't use Proton Calendar. If I don't have birthdays in my calendar I'll forget it 100% of the time. It's a pain to maintain it manually for hundreds of people.
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UserVoice commented
More than 9 months without an update. What's the status of this? I'm currently relying on Apple Calendar only for this functionality.
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raygam commented
Absolutely!!
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m62o commented
It would be helpful if a birthday/anniversary entered in the contacts could be made visible in the calendar (optionally activated) and reminders could also be made for it.
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Adam commented
This would be awesome. If it could even take into account the birthday's year (if supplied), and include which birthday it is in the event title, that'd be so helpful - e.g. "Jim's 41st birthday".
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Jean-Baptiste PICARD commented
I definitely need this feature and it would even better if all the birthdays/anniversaries are on a specific calendar that we can choose to show/hide and not in the main calendar
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Max Potaß commented
This get's more and more critical. I switched to proton from google and I start missing birthdays and I am not inclined to do this simple thing manually. It will take hours and is completely unnecesary.
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finneus commented
I also would love to see this feature. Also it should be an option if you want to be reminded of birthdays. That's a feature I really miss with Google calendar it used to be in old android versions but is gone for now. Maybe that would make me switch completely to proton calendar.
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theless commented
I'm in favor of a simple implementation such as a switch with the words "add to calendar" this can go under any date added to a contact. Anniversary, etc...
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Johan Svensson commented
This is the one and only thing that made me uninstall the Proton Calendar and go back to Google Calendar. Been checking on this feature every few months since then in the hopes of it being added so I can install Proton Calendar again. It's really that important to me. Please fix.
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Karibana.ckpt commented
to be able to integrate the birthdays of our contacts in the calendar
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Bomott commented
I am looking forward to this feature. In the meanwhile, I created a script for generating a birthday calendar (.ics) out of the exported contacts (.vcf).
https://github.com/Bomott/BirthdayCalendar -
Bryan Kim commented
I'm in favour of this feature.
An important distinction to make, however, is that contacts' birthdays should not *automatically* appear in Calendar, of course.
There should be an option to export birthdays to Calendar.
For example, when creating (or updating) a contact and setting a birthday, an off-by-default checkbox with a prompt such as "Create Calendar entry for this birthday?" could appear. -
Shadow commented
If this feature is added please make it optional, I do not wish to busy my calendar with every contacts birthday, I can add the few that I wish to have on there.
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Schengen asbl commented
Essential to completely switch from Google services
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Evgeny Alekseev commented
This feature is crucial. I add a contact, its birthday and automatically receive event "birthday" in my calendar. It's very comfortable feature. If I don't care about birthday of my contact I will not set it :)