Posted on 10/13/09.
Is there a way to show dates listed in Contacts, such as anniversaries, in iCal without using a third party app such as dates to ical?
– Michelle
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Actually, iCal and Address Book already do this — but only for birthdays. If you add a birthday or anniversary to a contact in Address Book, it will appear in a special calendar in iCal. For instance, I have several birthdays for contacts, and iCal automatically shows a “Birthdays” calendar. As long as that calendar is turned on in iCal.
For other date types, like anniversaries, you’ll need a 3rd-party plugin right now. But I’m hopeful that Apple will add that functionality in the near future.
Thanks, Gary.
Birthdays works great. I’ll stick with Dates 2 iCal for now to get the Anniversary dates into iCal.