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Birthday & Anniversary Reminders

Example prompt: "Every Sunday evening, look through my Google Contacts and Google Calendar for any birthdays or anniversaries in the next 14 days. Email me the list with the date, the person, and a short suggestion for a thoughtful message or small gift."

How to automate birthday and anniversary reminders with GloriaMundo

The Problem

Birthdays and anniversaries are the kind of thing you want to remember a week ahead, not the day of. A card needs posting, a gift needs ordering, and a thoughtful message benefits from a little time to compose. Most people end up scrambling on the morning of, sending a generic message at lunchtime, or — worst — finding out a day late from a social media post. Calendar reminders set on the day itself do not solve the problem; you need a quiet weekly nudge that looks 1–2 weeks ahead.

How GloriaMundo Solves It

We build a workflow that runs weekly on a schedule. An integration step reads your Google Contacts and pulls any contacts with a birthday or anniversary field. A second integration step pulls events from a dedicated "Birthdays & Anniversaries" Google Calendar if you keep one. A code step normalises both sources, deduplicates, and filters to events falling within the next 14 days. An LLM step writes a tidy summary — name, date, days until, and a short relationship-aware suggestion (a message tone for someone you know well, a gift idea bracketed by a sensible budget, or simply a card if that fits the relationship). An integration step emails you the digest each Sunday. For optional gift research on closer relationships, you can branch into a sub-agent that searches the web for current ideas and links. Glass Box preview shows the full output before anything is sent.

Example Workflow Steps

  1. Trigger (scheduled): Runs every Sunday evening.
  2. Step 1 (integration): Read contacts from Google Contacts, extracting birthday and anniversary fields where present.
  3. Step 2 (integration): Read events from the "Birthdays & Anniversaries" Google Calendar for the next 14 days.
  4. Step 3 (code): Merge both sources, deduplicate by person, and compute days until each event.
  5. Step 4 (llm): For each upcoming event, write a one-line summary with a short suggestion tailored to the relationship.
  6. Step 5 (conditional): For events inside 7 days flagged as close relationships, branch to gift research.
  7. Step 6 (sub_agent): Optional — research 2–3 gift ideas with links and a price guide.
  8. Step 7 (integration): Email the consolidated digest via Gmail.

Integrations Used

  • Google Contacts — source of birthdays and anniversaries stored against people
  • Google Calendar — alternative source for those who keep dates on a dedicated calendar
  • Gmail — delivery channel for the weekly digest

Who This Is For

Anyone who values remembering the people in their life but finds the day-of reminder system inadequate. Particularly useful for larger family circles, anyone planning to send physical cards or gifts, and people who genuinely want their message to feel thoughtful rather than rushed.

Time & Cost Saved

The time saved is small — a few minutes a week reviewing dates — but the value is in not missing the people who matter to you, and in giving yourself enough advance warning to do the thing properly. Catching even one or two important dates a year that you would otherwise have rushed or missed is worth a lot more than the cost of running the workflow. Uses integration, code, LLM, conditional, and optional sub_agent steps, costing a few credits per weekly run.