How to Keep Track of Birthdays and Anniversaries
A birthday remembered at breakfast gives you time to call.
Special dates, made simple
Step-by-step guides to birthdays, date calculations, celebrations, calendars, and backups.
A birthday remembered at breakfast gives you time to call.
A family birthday calendar has two jobs.
A work anniversary can prompt a simple note of appreciation or a chance to look back at the projects someone helped deliver.
A February 29 birthday has an exact date in leap years.
A birthday countdown uses the date where your browser is running.
Knowing a friend's birthday does not require knowing their age.
If someone asks how old you are, the usual answer is completed years.
A photo caption needs the person's age when the picture was taken.
Calendar age and total days describe the same interval using different units.
Planning an anniversary often means juggling the wedding date and the date that guests can attend.
A civil ceremony and a later wedding celebration can create two meaningful dates.
A leap-day wedding or work start needs an observance rule before you can plan its next annual celebration.
The phrase “100 days together” can refer to two dates one day apart.
An upcoming milestone result can show today.
A leap day changes a duration without moving a calendar anniversary.
Milestones measured in days are handy when an ordinary anniversary is too far away or when the number itself is part of the celebration.
A preparation deadline is often easier to calculate from the celebration date backward.
A 10,000-day celebration needs a day calculation because an approximate conversion to years can shift the result.
A useful birthday budget starts with what you can comfortably spend and the kind of time you want to share.
Two possible celebrations are easier to compare when each has a complete cost list.
A checklist percentage measures the share of listed tasks checked.
A special date calendar is easiest to maintain when it answers a short question: what is coming up that I care about?
Exporting is useful when you want to see special dates alongside appointments or move a private collection to a new browser.
A date list can contain more personal information than it first appears.