On 23-11-07 01:50, Sally Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:44:07 +0000, NoSp wrote:
>>> I don't use Address Book for this purpose at all.
>> Then how do you enter birthdays?
>
> Directly into iCal. (File - New Event). Perhaps that's the difference?
If
> you im****t them from Address Book then maybe you can't edit them?
Aha! I understand now.
It's just like you've said all along: you haven't entered the birthdays
via Address book at all, but entered them as new events and told iCal to
repeat the events every year, right?
I guess that should work, but I see a couple of problems:
- how can I print a birthday-list? I can do that from Address book
- Address book's layout is designed for adding all sorts of information
in a tidy manner: names, addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, email
address etc. All that information in one place. By using your method you
lose all of that.
Then again you get the ability to set an alarm individually for each
entry. I find it so odd that Apple didn't incor****ate this into the way
they designed birthdays to be entered. After all, Apple is trying to
promote the Mac, its operating system and applications as something for
people who aren't into computers and does things the way people do them.
Well, why on earth do they leave out obvious functionality?
Is it because they want to be able to list up a whole lot of new
additions to the next version they want to sell you?
I'm a little frustrated with them right now :-(
Perhaps there's a way I can copy all of the birthdays I've entered into
Address book (which is then automatically sync'd with iCal, entering the
birthdays there) over to a new (or existing) "normal" calendar?
A little complicated for many people I guess, but with that method I
could get the best of both worlds.
I do however need to remember to manually do this every time I add a new
person to my address book.
I wish Apple had done it right from the start though!
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