Recently created ideas in I want Sandy

Regarding advanced lists, might it be an idea for Sandy to have the capability for "sub listing"?

For example, if I have the following advanced list:

Remind me to do English homework for Wk #3 - L #2 Comparing & Contrasting Fiction 9/17-9/24 @ur @ur_eng201u @todo +
* Wk #3 - L #2: Use the DR-TA strategy when reading The Luncheon found in UR Course Reserves.
* Wk #3 - L #2: Use the Venn diagram organizer from Blackboard site to compare the two stories.
* Wk #3 - L #2: Using Venn diagram, write a four paragraph essay on The Luncheon.
* Wk #3 - L #2: Turn in four paragraph essay, 9/22 9:30pm

It would be cool if Sandy could do something like:

Remind me to do English homework for Wk #3 - L #2 Comparing & Contrasting Fiction 9/17-9/24 @ur @ur_eng201u @todo +
* Wk #3 - L #2: Use the DR-TA strategy when reading The Luncheon found in UR Course Reserves.
- Confirm w/ instructor which Powerpoint to use
* Wk #3 - L #2: Use the Venn diagram organizer from Blackboard site to compare the two stories.
- Check which page within the text this is one.
* Wk #3 - L #2: Using Venn diagram, write a four paragraph essay on The Luncheon.
* Wk #3 - L #2: Turn in four paragraph essay, 9/22 9:30pm

Or would this be overkill? :)

Fastest way I've found to send items too Sandy is via Keybreeze:
http://keybreeze.com/community/conten...

I'm not sure about others, but when I say "Remind me to" it means I have something "todo" and when I say "Remind me about" it usually means that I am scheduling a meeting. It would be great if Sandy could automatically understand the difference without the "@todo".

Use of a FIELD:VALUE pattern.
Some fields cannot be initialized when emailing Sandy (ie Fields URL and Bookmark Title).
I think it would be convenient to be allowed to use a FIELD:VALUE syntax in order to set up these fields.
That approach would allow Sandy to understand new fields for example on the contact form: Address, phone, ...
It would also help the parsing engine to discriminate between different types of information.
r President of USA address:Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC would be understood has a contact, not a note!

Perhaps you could make the printed to-do lists a little more streamlined. At present they waste a lot of space with the logo and odd formatting. I would like to be able to get more items on my lists when I print them and take them with me. It would also be nice to have something clean looking. Perhaps you could even make the look of the lists customizable

Wishlist: I'd like to see Sandy send my new contacts ("Remember Jonas 123-123-4444 jonas@example.com) get automatically imported to Gmail (as on option, of course). I suppose that may not be possible. I'm also aware that I can upload the .vcf file Sandy returns to Gmail, but that is much less convenient than an automatic, tell-sandy-and-forget-it solution like the one I'm whining for ;-)

An example given to try is "Remember Pat's wife's name is Christine." Why aren't contacts for Christine and Pat created with information in each stating that they are married?

I have developed a (basic) working, iPhone-optimized web form that allows me to quickly get tasks to Sandy. (It's basically a web form with a PHP backend that does the mailing to Sandy.)

I'd love to bring this to others, but doing so would require that I create a membership framework that stores users' information -- otherwise the form wouldn't know your unique e-mail address for Sandy. As it is now, I just have my Sandy e-mail hardcoded into the scripts since I'm the only one using it.

So...I thought I'd look for some feedback here. Are folks willing to sign up for such a site and enter their personal info?

I emailed Sandy with a blank message that had an .ics attachment I wanted reminded me about. I was hoping she would figure it out.

I think this is a decent idea; some programs (such as Google Calendar invites) send out .ics files.

Note, this has already been discussed (as a problem) here on GetSatisfaction.

Birthday/Event Automation - I think I got this one figured out on another application but here goes. Let's see if Sandy is up to the task. Here is how the command would look as an email

Sandy, email roger (a contact in Sandy) the body of this email at x date in the future.

I'm coordinating an entire family and I finally found a web ap that lets me easily keep everyone separate but combined with a very clean interface.

Problem: right now it doesn't connect to the other things I use: Sandy, Jott, and gCal. I know, I know; gCal has multiple layers. But really it's not the same thing as something specifically created for use with families.

What I want to be able to do is use Jott to talk to Sandy, and have things added to either my Cozi or gCal aps (Cozi has lists and a journal, too). Then I need Sandy to remind me of things I specify on Cozi (I know she'll already do it from gCal, right), or include them in my daily digest.

Why not put the <-- Prev link to the left of the other links instead of clear over on the very left edge of the screen? Clustering is better IMHO. Think about it!

I think that the lookup command should be extended so that it's possible to request the *contents* of a list item. This could be specified by adding a special tag to the lookup command.

> d s l shopping list @details

There currently isn't a way to get the contents of a list through Twitter and Jott. They only reply to a lookup with the *name* of an item. There isn't any way to get the contents. (Twitter and Jott (with SMS reply) are limited to a sending a lookup response of only 140 characters. Their lookup responses are very different from an email response.)

There are 2 different scenarios, (Both scenarios use Twitter or Jott)

1) try to lookup all items that have a certain tag or contain certain text.
2) try to lookup the contents of a list item.

For case #1, Right now, Sandy only returns the "first result" via Twitter and Jott. This is extremely limiting. I think Sandy should return a list of the "top three" results. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

For case #2, This isn't currently possible. Even looking up the exact name of the list will only result in a "first result" response with the *name* of the list. It currently isn't possible to get the "contents* of the list.

I think that sms lookup responses should contain more than one result. Sandy can squeeze several items in by using a short name for each of the items.

Right now, any lookup through Twitter or Jott (with SMS reply) only returns the "first result". This is too limiting. I think Sandy should return a list of the "top three" results.

The stated reason for the "first result" behavior is the 140 character limit that sms messages have. It's likely that the first result will take the entire 140 characters.

In order to squeeze in 3 results, Sandy would have to limit each result to about 35-40 characters. (Some extra characters are left for numbers and formatting.) That means that you'd only get 6 or 7 words to describe each item.

Example:
> d s milk
> direct from s: #24 shopping list @todo #25 buy milk of magnesia @todo #26 milk all I can out of my subscription

1) To get more information on any item, the message can be replied to with a lookup for that number.
> d s l #24

2) In order to limit each result to a few words, Sandy should have a "short name" for each item. Then she can reply to the lookup with only the "short name".

This "short name" could be automatically created by Sandy, or there could be an option to set it by using the website.

I'd like to be able to set up multiple reminders for an event. I'd like a reminder by email 2 hours before the event. And I'd like another reminder by sms message 15 minutes before the event.

Not a change request, but more of a thank you and 'hurrah' for integration with other stuff - in my case, google apps (calendar and email), labels and jott.

The short story: I work on software for a living. I use eclipse, not necessarily because it's a great tool but these days because of 'mylyn', a task-management plugin on steroids.

At any rate, with relatively little pain, I was able to get the latest release of mylyn to slurp sandy's schedule (via google calendar) into an all-encompassing calendar (work, personal, everything all in one without having to put my personal stuff in the work calendar). Moderately helpful. Even better, sandy's emailed @todo reminders to gmail (with a simple label filter) turn into actionable tasks that can be (for those into the mylyn verbage) activated, time tracked and dealt with right in eclipse.

I need more practice, but I can see a near future where sandy tells me what's coming next, I can focus on just that thing, and then when it's all done ask "What the heck did I spend my time on last week" without having to jot down each and every thing manually. It's really amazing that I can call in my task over the phone, or now pretty closely with a note from my ide and it magically comes back to my desktop when I'm supposed to start working on it. Now, if I can just get mylyn to tell sandy that I'm finished with my task...

The fact that it's portable to multiple computers is equally astonishing, and just about the most helpful thing imaginable. On a sad note, my moleskine is getting much less use these days. The one glimmer of hope - hopefully Sandy uses one to keep track of all my stuff. That would make me feel better.

Awesome job, Sandy (and Rael). Every day things are a little bit better than they could have been.

- Mark

My signature line details are increasingly showing up with contacts I email in to Sandy. For example, my phone number becomes the contact I email in, or MY fax, etc. I'd like to be able to avoid that! Remember the Milk has a way to tell the system to ignore anything after a certain operator, like a double-dash, or a star, or something. I forget which. Would love if Sandy could do the same thing and ignore my automatically added signature line.

Seems to me that Sandy and iPhone are made for each other, so how about an app?

When emailing Sandy could we not have something easier to remember than xxxxx@username.iwantsandy.com What about me@username.iwantsandy.com or username@iwantsandy.com

hey guys i think it's safe to assume that an email without the words "remember" or "remind" means schedule this thing at this time. ie meet john at 2pm tomorrow shouldn't return an error asking me to make it remember meet john at 2pm tomorrow. why else would i be emailing sandy if i didn't want to schedule something?