What counts as an important date?
An important date is any day whose meaning comes from your relationship to it. It may repeat annually like a wedding anniversary, or simply be a date you want to preserve with a note. LifeDates supports Important Dates alongside birthdays so people, pets and shared events remain part of one timeline.
- Wedding, civil partnership and relationship anniversaries
- Pet adoption or “gotcha” days
- Moving-home anniversaries
- Memorial dates
- Graduations, business launches and creative milestones
- Any personal annual date you want to remember
Add an anniversary or special date
- Open LifeDates and add an Important Date.
- Give it a clear title that will make sense in a notification.
- Choose the date and connect it to a person when relevant.
- Add a note with the context you are likely to forget.
- Turn on a reminder and choose the lead time.
Choose reminder timing from the action
A same-day alert is right for reflection or a simple message. A week is better for reservations, presents or travel. LifeDates lets you choose a preferred reminder time and keeps upcoming dates in the monthly planner, giving you both an overview and a deliberate prompt.
For dates connected to another person, keep their birthday profile and the shared anniversary separate. Each date can then repeat and notify on its own schedule.
Export Important Dates to Apple Calendar
If Apple Calendar is where you plan your weeks, export birthdays and Important Dates as yearly events. LifeDates remains the richer profile and milestone view; Calendar supplies the broader schedule context. This avoids duplicating data by hand while keeping the dedicated birthday and age features available in the app.
Important-date questions
Can I track a date without a birth year?
Birthdays need a year for exact ages. An Important Date can be used when the event itself, rather than a person's age, is what matters.
Can I add notes?
Yes. Profiles and dates can carry private context stored with the app's local data.
Can I archive old dates?
LifeDates includes active and archived organisation so dates can be kept without appearing in current reminders and widgets.
Give every meaningful date a place.
Download LifeDates to track anniversaries, adoption days, birthdays and the moments around them.
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