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If Sady's going to be my virtual assistant, I figure she should know what's on my work and personal calendars too. Right now I can't get Sandy to subscribe to my Google Calendar or Apple iCalendar, and that's frustrating. Imagine an assistant that didn't know what appointments you had for the day!

This would be a useful feature, though -- then she could include all my appointments in her daily agenda emails, not just the ones I've sent to her. And she could watch out for conflicts or help me when I'm overbooking a day.

Do you Gcal? Think inside the 30 Boxes? Outlook (Windows) or iCal (Mac) more your speed? Take your I want Sandy calendar (and to-dos too) with you to any calendar capable of subscribing to remote calendars using the iCalendar standard.

Here's how:

1. Turn on Sandy's private iCalendar feed for your account: visit your Account settings page at http://iwantsandy.com/settings#calend..., select "Yes", and click the "Save" button.

2. Click the "Subscribe" link (iCal or Outlook 2007), "Download" link (Outlook 2003), or copy your private iCalendar feed's address (ready for pasting into Google Calendar, 30 Boxes, and others).

3. Visit Sandy's Calendar feeds help page at http://iwantsandy.com/help/feeds#cale... for details on subscribing Google Calendar, Outlook 2003 and 2007 (Windows), iCal (Mac), and more.

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KEEP YOUR PRIVATE FEED PRIVATE!
Anyone with whom you share your private iCalendar feed's address will be able to see your reminders, appointments, and to-dos. This includes third-party calendar applications, some of which make it all too easy to make your calendar public. If you've accidentally shared the address with someone you didn't mean to, visit your Account settings page and click the "reset" link we've provided [http://iwantsandy.com/settings/reset_...].
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Sandy's always provided an iCalendar feed of your appointments, reminders, and to-dos. Only the feed was protected by a username and password — and, so, inaccessible to calendar applications and services that don't support such authentication (we're looking at you, Google Calendar ;-).

Many of you asked if we could provide a private iCalendar feed — protected by an obscure URL packed with random letters and characters. (OK, so you asked for at least the first part of that!) And that's just what we've done.

Enjoy!

Howdy!

Last night's update brought with it some brand new calendar subscription functionality (specially — though not only — for you Google Calendar folk), enhanced printing, fixed Twitter and Jott lookups, and other tweaks and twiddles...

NEW: iCal, gCal, we-all-Cal with iCal

Read all about it at http://gsfn.us/t/axn.

FIXED: Better understanding of "dotty" time ranges

Sandy occasionally finds our human brand of punctuation disconcerting (and who doesn't? ;-) And that's why we are always working with Sandy to ever-more-accurately pick dates and times out of our messages.

To that end, Sandy now fully groks "dotty" time ranges — those chock full of periods or dots like this one: "10 a.m. to 9:45 p.m."

If you're finding Sandy still has trouble with your particular brand of specifying dates and times, please help us help Sandy help you: post the nitty-gritty details here on GetSatisfaction and we'll get it all sorted for you.

ENHANCED: Printing

Earlier this week we rolled out a completely reworked the print stylesheet [Read all about it at http://gsfn.us/t/axx] to produce a nice lovely paper copy of Your stuff or your Daily Digest.

And we just couldn't keep ourselves from enhancing Sandy's printed self still further!

* You'll find a "Print" link to both the Your stuff and Daily Digest (i.e. your iwantsandy.com home page). 1. Click > 2. Print > 3. Fold > 4. Experience increased increased awareness of what your day holds.

* Sandy's full-color beaming countenance has been replaced with a grey-scale (though no less beaming) version to save your printer a drop or three of color.

* The font size was reduced ever so slightly to fit more on a single page, saving you some paper-shuffling and the planet some lovely trees.

* Sandy now includes a reminder about checking in with her at the end of the day so that you can synch up on anything you crossed off the paper copy of your to-do list, added to the calendar, or otherwise would like her to remember for you.

FIXED: Lookups via Twitter and Jott

We inadvertently introduced a bug that caused Sandy (and you) some head-ache around looking things up via Twitter and Jott. This has been rectified and you should now be seeing results returned as expected.

If you are still having trouble for some reason, please do post here and let us know.

TWEAKED: Pagination honors "Include..."

Thanks to the terrific eyesite of Sandy's client "Bluedrums" [http://gsfn.us/t/ay7], we were alerted to and fixed a bug that caused pagination (clicking the "<->" links) to forget any "Include done", "Include archived", and "Include past" toggling you'd done in the right-hand sidebar's advanced filtering and sorting.

FIXED: Replying re-honors preferences

Also introduced during our updates of the other evening was a bug which confused Sandy into replying to email when you'd plainly asked her not to (in your Email settings at http://iwantsandy.com/settings/email). Kudos to Marshall for noticing and fixing the issue all but immediately.

TWEAKED: Line-height of individual items in lists

Individual items were wrapping oddly in some browsers. Thanks, Shawn [http://gsfn.us/t/9ar] for pointing it out!

Onward and upward!

—Rael