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People

A Person is the main organising object in The Gift Journal. Ideas, Hints, Occasions, Context and history build around that relationship over time.

A Person is the main organising object in The Gift Journal. Ideas, Hints, Occasions, Context and history build around that relationship over time.

Open a Person

  1. Open People.
  2. Select the Person you want.
  3. Use the Person sections to move between Ideas, Hints, About and History.

Edit a Person

  1. Open the Person.
  2. Open the Person actions menu.
  3. Choose Edit person.
  4. Update the name, photo, birthday or notes.
  5. Add or amend thoughtful profile information such as theme tags, dislikes or Avoid gifting notes where useful.
  6. Tap Save.

Add or change a Person photo

  1. Open the Person and choose Edit person.
  2. In Photo, choose Add photo or Change photo.
  3. Choose Take Photo or Choose from Photo Library.
  4. Save the Person.

If a Person was created from Apple Contacts, the journal may retain a link to the source contact, but The Gift Journal’s Person record remains part of your journal.

Birthdays

When you add a birthday to a Person, The Gift Journal maintains the canonical Birthday relationship for that Person. Birthday is intentionally the one-person Occasion exception: it belongs to that Person rather than becoming a general multi-person planning group.

To change a birthday:

  1. Open the Person.
  2. Choose Edit person.
  3. Change the birthday.
  4. Save.
  5. The corresponding Birthday Occasion follows the canonical Person birthday.

Add thoughtful Context

Context is for durable relationship memory rather than a specific product suggestion — for example a new hobby, a preference, a life change or something to avoid.

  1. Open the Person.
  2. Go to About.
  3. Add or edit Context.
  4. Write the useful memory.
  5. Save it.
  6. Pin especially important Context when you want it to remain prominent.

Add an Occasion for a Person

  1. Open the Person.
  2. Open the Person actions menu.
  3. Choose Add occasion.
  4. Choose the Occasion type/date/recurrence.
  5. Review reminder and planning options.
  6. Save.

Continue on Apple Watch

From a Person on iPhone you can choose Continue on Apple Watch. This does not open a full Person record on the Watch. It prepares a small From iPhone capture context so the Watch can quickly record an Idea or Hint for that Person. See the Apple Watch guide.

Delete a Person

  1. Open the Person actions menu.
  2. Choose Delete person.
  3. Review the warning carefully.
  4. Confirm only if you intend to remove that Person and the affected journal relationships.

Deletion is deliberately explicit because the Person is the anchor for long-term journal history.