Tag: JavaScript

How Old Are My Google Contacts?

Post author By Ross Goodman
Post date 2015-02-18
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It may be a sign of old age but, I’m struggling more and more to remember how old people are. I have addressed this by having a review of my Google contact data and making sure, where I know someone’s birthday I have recorded it there.

This has the added advantage of creating a Google calendar showing me their birthdays.

I have now created a script which scans my contacts to find their birthdays, does some arithmetic to work out their age and store this in a custom field. I have set up a trigger to run this once a week.

Here is the script that I created:

Tags Age, Birthday, Contacts, DateOfBirth, Google, GoogleAppsScript, JavaScript, OriginalContent

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Review a random Google Contact every day

Post author By Ross Goodman
Post date 2014-05-28
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I have all of my contacts loaded into Google Contacts but the problem is, I’m never convinced that they are up to date or even sure if I should still have the person’s contact details listed.

To address this I created the following script which will send me an email every day with a randomly selected contact.

I can then review the contact’s details, compare it with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and then either update their contact details or send them an e-mail to catch up with them.