I think that all remembered items should have a "details" sections. This would just be an editable text field. Currently, everything has to be crammed into the "name" of the item. (See this by using the website, click on any reminder and look at the "name" field.) By default, the "details" section would contain the same information that's in the "context" section now. The difference is that it would be editable.
I want to be able to add details to my items. For instance, there currently isn't a way to add driving directions or a list of items to bring to an appointment. I don't want to change the name of the appointment, I want the "meeting with Tony" to stay the same. (As a further idea, when an item is created or updated by email, maybe we could optionally specify the name of an item by using @name ?)
Lists already have a "details" section. Lists currently have a "name" and a separate text area for the elements in the list. This makes it easy to edit the items in the list (the "details") separately from the name of the list. Looking at the website, every list has a separate text area where the elements of the list can be edited. I'm suggesting that a text area like this be added to every item. The text are can be labeled "details".
Adding "details" to an appointment would blur the line between an appointment and a "note". It would give people the ability to add "notes" to an appointment, etc. I know in the past some people have suggested that we should be able to change the type of an item from "appointment" to "note". I think that was suggested because it wasn't possible to add notes to an appointment. I think adding "details" would solve the problem. It sure would help me out.
If I pop up Sandy's "New" message widget in one browser tab, and then drag a url from another tab (thanks for the tip, Rael), the url gets pasted in the New box, but I have to add the normal 'remember' text before the url to get Sandy to do the right thing, just as if I had sent it through email.
If I'm entering the info directly in Sandy's "New" textbox, I already want Sandy to remember whatever it is I'm entering through the mere fact of adding it on the page instead of via email. Assuming the same text-processing backend should be used to process all incoming messages, and that Sandy's "New" popup is sending text to it, would it make sense for the "New" popup to staple on a preceeding "remember" to the message if it doesn't already exist when the message is in transit? Or pre-populate the New box with 'remember'? That way I can drag-n-tag without having to deal with the extra text and keep up my lazy ways.
Here is a bookmark for safari that will create a List e-mail to Sandy on the iPhone - "mailto:your@sandyemail.iwantsandy.com?subject=List%20to%20Sandy&body=Remember%20?%0A*%20?%0A*%20?%0A*%20?"
Hey, i would love it if Sandy would list all my bookmarks just like del.icio.us did. i find that when i view my bookmark page, it shows the name, AND the url AND the tags, which in most cases doesn't wrap and makes my page look all funny. visually, it looks like a mess.
i wish it just showed the name of the bookmark, and the tags.
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Elizabeth Wiley
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on June 26, 2008 21:36
Rael Dornfest (Official Rep)
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on July 18, 2008 18:54
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