Hide Certain Birthdays (Calendar)

[MacOG728893]

I understand that if a particular contact has an appended birthday in their contact info and I have the "Birthdays" calendar checked in the application, it will show the event.

My question is in regards to hiding certain birthdays while displaying others. I understand that I could simply erase the birthday from the contact, but I may not want to erase their actual birthday from their info, just from displaying in my calendar.

Anyway of doing this?

 

[CoastalOR]

I do not know of any elegant way to do what you want. I would, as a workaround, put the birthday in the Notes section on the Contact card for the birthdays not desired on the Birthday calendar.

 

[NoBoMac]

What CoastlOR said. Note field and or any other field that you are not using in Contacts (eg. I use "Related Name" for putting in cuisine type for restaurants [though can use notes field now: used to be could not search on the note field).

Or, what I do for birthdays is to turn off the display of the automatic calendar coming from Contacts and just manage birthdays in a separate calendar in Calendar. What I like about that is can setup alerts for X days in advance to get flowers, gift, card, etc. as well as day of to send a "Happy Birthday!".

 

[MacOG728893]

What CoastlOR said. Note field and or any other field that you are not using in Contacts (eg. I use "Related Name" for putting in cuisine type for restaurants [though can use notes field now: used to be could not search on the note field).

Or, what I do for birthdays is to turn off the display of the automatic calendar coming from Contacts and just manage birthdays in a separate calendar in Calendar. What I like about that is can setup alerts for X days in advance to get flowers, gift, card, etc. as well as day of to send a "Happy Birthday!".

Both terrific ideas! Thanks so much. The latter is probably what I'll do.