Contacts integrating with Calendar

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When I drag a Contact to a day on the Calendar it wants me to send an .ics invitation to that Contact. I don't want to send an invitation. I just want to make an appointment on the Calendar with that Contact. If there a way to prevent the .ics invitation from happening? And, just wishful thinking but I would like to see the Contacts notes (or have "history" section) that when I make an appointment on the Calendar, with a specific Contact, it would be saved in the Contacts record. I know that is more of a job of a Contact Manager app and, over the years, I have worked with, and been very proficient with various CRM's. Being retired now I don't need a very complex Contact Manager. I guess Bento was the last, simple, CRM for Mac?
 
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Why not just set up the appointment, from within Calendar?
 
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I was hoping to somehow create a "history" of the appointment in the Contact's record. Without manually entering the appointment twice. Once in Calendar and then again in the Notes section of the Contact. I know. I'm wishing the Calendar and Contacts were interested like a CRM.
 
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I discovered a simple workaround for creating a "history" entry in a Contact's record. First, have both Contact and Calendar apps open. Make a new event in Calendar by typing in the Contact's name. Then "Edit" the Contact card and drag & drop the new event in to the Notes section of the Contact's card. Now you have a history of that event with that Contact. So if I can't remember the last time I had a dental cleaning, for example, I open the Dentist's Contact card and can see it in Notes.
 

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You can certainly do it that way, but you really don't need to even mess with the calendar in order to add on to the contact notes. But I guess if you need a history of some sort, that will work. Seems to me that a PIM should do all that. I had several real simple PIMs that I used back in the old days of Windows but nothing as easy as those exists for the Mac. Outlook is overkill which is as close to some of those I used to have.
 

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