Best Birthday user guide

Best Birthday is a useful utility that helps you organizing and viewing anniversaries in a handy way: monthly anniversaries view of contacts found in Contacts applications, alarms in Calendar associated with them, ability to perform fully customizable export of anniversaries from Contacts to Calendar and much more.

Features

• Uses information from native Contacts and Calendar databases, so you don't have to enter contact information twice
• Gives the possibility to create greeting messages based on templates
• Easy to use and intuitive user interface
• Ability to sort birthdays by different criteria
• Allows making a call right from within the application
• Possibility to divide anniversaries view by month and Zodiac sign

Anniversaries view

Best Birthday is fully integrated with built-in Calendar and Contacts applications. It collects all anniversaries found in Contacts and associates them with records in Calendar.

You can easily customize order, in which you'd like birthdays to be shown. This can be done with the help of menu command "Sort by":

• Order ascending / descending;
• Sort by name;
• Sort by date;
• Sort by days left;
• Sort by months left;
• Split by month - lets you divide all birthdays into months. All the birthdays of a chosen month will be shown on one page, to change current month just press Left/Right arrow;
• Split by zodiac - works similarly to "Split by month", but divides birthdays by Zodiac signs;

Best Birthday has a reach set of functions, such as:

• Add/Edit/Delete Contact;
• Add/Delete Calendar reminder;
• Find birthday by name;
• Send greeting message to contact,
  For convenient greetings sending you can use a template defined in the Settings dialog.
  You can enter patterns "%FirstName%" and "%LastName%" in the template, which will be replaced by contact data at the time of specific message creation basing on template;
• Call contact directly from Best Birthday;

All data about a birthday is stored in Contacts.
In order to add a birthday to an existing contact choose command New from contact.
If you want to add a birth date but you don't have a corresponding contact use command New to create a new contact with birth date.

Best Birthday lets you add Anniversary type reminders in your Calendar. When you add a calendar event, you can configure the following settings:

• Alarm enabled / disabled;
• Days before;
• Alarm time;

Note: If you want to add a lot of records in the calendar at one time, use the Mark all command from menu Mark.

Settings:

• Show future age;
• Show contact photo;
• Show days left;
• Show filter;
• Name format - "Last name, First name" or "First name, Last name";
• Message text and subject templates;