Re: [Evolution] Adding contact's birthdays to calendar

[Ken Guest <kwg renre-europe com>]

On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 07:07, Miles Lane wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 21:29, Steve Fox wrote:
> > I would love to have the option to add a contact's birthday to my
> > calendar (probably with a 1 week reminder by default :) either
> > automatically when I specify it or at least a button that does it for
> > me.
> >
> > Anyone else think this cool? (I think Outlook does it)
>
> I suppose a more generalized feature might be nice.
> For example, something where I could specify any special
> occasion and then have a "Add reminder to calendar" button.
> Ideally, the "Add Event" dialog would have UI for specifying
> whether I just wanted to add the next occurrence of the
> event or wanted the reminder to be recurring, instead.
>
> Obvious possible significant events include:
>
>       Birthdays
>       Name days (celebrated rather than birthdays in most
>       of Eastern Europe)
>       Wedding Anniversaries
>       

oh that would be so unbelievably handy - especially if there was
some way of entering these en mass or importing them from other sources.
For example I use Geneweb[0] for maintaining my family tree [1] and it
would be sooo unbelievably nice to be able to import geneweb
anniveraries into Evolution.

k.


[0] - http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/
[1] - any Guests, Gunsts, Brays, Armitages, Websters or Oughtons out
there?