Yeah I know, this might be taking things too far. But I got tired of typing the same variations over and over, so I decided to generate it from a few custom snippets.
You can use this optional shortcut together with Pushcut to get a notification when it’s someone’s birthday. You can set it up to generate the message when tapping on the Pushcut notification.
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It currently works with WhatsApp or messages. It generates a message with three parts:
- “Happy birthday” (randomly selects a variation of it, you can customize these)
- “Tanja” (chooses the first name or nickname if you have one set for the contact)
- “🎂🤗” (also customizable ending, chooses randomly)
So the message here would be: “Happy birthday Tanja 🎂🤗”. It will then open the chat app you picked and pre-fill the message. It’s not sending the message automatically.
For anyone who want to set up the notification part:
It’s a bit annoying and I don’t think it’s possible to share this so you have to do that part yourself.
- Download Pushcuts
- open it > notifications > +
- call it something like “It’s someone’s birthday”
- as the default action, select the “happy birthday” shortcut
Then
- download this shortcut
- open it and select the new notification you just set up in the Pushcut action
- open shortcuts > automation
- set up a new time based automation
- set it to 00:01 or whenever you want to get the message
- select the shortcut you just downloaded
You’ll only see the message if it’s someone’s birthday and if you tap on it, it will automatically run the shortcut and open your chat app with the prepared message filled out.