From my experimentation, this is how I understand Sandy to work on this topic:
- If I send an item with a specific time/date (things like 'today at 2pm' or 'tomorrow morning' or 'February 3rd'), Sandy will interpret the item as an "appointment" and set the appointment time to the time I gave. She will set the reminder to the default reminder interval (in my case, 15 min before).
- If I send an item with a relative day/time (things like 'in 10 min', 'in 12 hours', or 'in 7 days'), Sandy will interpret the item as a "note" (? or maybe a to-do if it is so tagged?). It will not have a date/time it is set to happen, and will have the reminder set to the time/date I specified.
First, please confirm that's correct. If so, it seems that it is impossible to set a simple reminder with a specific date/time, which is something I often want to do. I try not to use "appointments" at all because I have a separate calendar app and just use Sandy for to-dos and reminders. But many of my items end up categorized as appointments, which means that they don't show up (by default) in my lists after the original date/time has passed. I have to make a point to check all my items from time to time to make sure they haven't disappeared into the past.
I'm not sure of the exact best solution, but I thought I'd share my confusion about this so you can figure out a better way. Thanks.
"Remind me about Brendon's birthday present being mailed. Tag with To-Do."
Here is what Sandy got:
"I got: Brendon's birthday present being mailed. (Mon, 6/2/2008 7:00am) @todo"
My problem is Sandy made my todo into an appointment (I sent this on 6/2 2:30 am). How can I get Sandy to quit adding a start datetime? I just want a todo.
I use Mail.app in an office that is mostly outlook. When I receive meeting invites, they come as .ics attachments in email. I can double-click on these to import them into iCal, but I'd like them in Sandy. Ideally I'd just be able to forward her the attachment and have her remember the appointment, but the only way I've found to do it is to type out the meeting info as "remember <blah>".
Initial attempt to Sandy was "Remember class every Wednesday until May 7 from 5:30-8:30pm". What I received back was an appointment starting 5/7/08 at 5:30pm until 1/9/09 at 8:30pm.
Second attempt was "Remember class from 5:30-8:30pm every Wednesday until 5/7/08". Same result as first.
Third attempt was "Remember class on 1/9 from 5:30-8:30pm @weekly until 5/7/08". This produced "Occurs every Wednesday effective 01/09/2008 from 5:30 PM for 2859 hours".
I'm beginning to think it's not possible to schedule a period of time in which to schedule weekly (or otherwise recurring) appointments? Am I right?
I'd like to create an appointment or todo with a custom reminder time using a single message to Sandy. So I'd like to, for example, schedule an appointment at 12pm and have Sandy remind me at 9am. I realize that I can create an appointment, then go to the site and edit it, or I can reply to Sandy's response with "update #1 remind me at 9am."
Since the functionality is there, I was wondering if there was some syntax I was unaware of to tell her to create an appointment at 12 with a reminder at 9 in one fell swoop.
Can there be a keyword "schedule" (s) so that Sandy can enter an appointment. It' is odd to ask her to remember something before it exists. Saying "remember" implies that it already exists. I want to ask her to schedule it ("schedule lunch tomorrow 1pm at Mickey Dees")... and it there's a conflict, she can reply: "No can do: you have X at that time..."
I think using the word "schedule" would also help clarify the distinction between asking for a reminder vs. creating an event.
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