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I love Sandy and I wish it had an interface optimized for the iPhone, similar to that of Remember the Milk.

I just took a quick look at "Posti.ca", which is kinda like sandy but only for notes. Have you given any thought to rearranging Sandy's "Notes" interface to something like this? I really like the Post-it visualization of nodes.

How about a setting up a Sandy status RSS feed? If Sandy is having issues, then it would be good to informed of this before the fact (i.e. when you check your RSS reader, say), than after discovering something isn't working as it should.

I'm thinking along the lines of the Twitter status blog - http://status.twitter.com/

Cheers,

Dougal

ikordo.com was a service for scheduling meetings by email. It'd engage in back-and-forth with all the participants and settle on a time.

I tried using it, liked the experience, but lack of Google Calendar integration discouraged me -- the meetings that ikordo would schedule would need to go into my calendar in a convoluted way.

Sandy, on the other hand, is positioned much better to schedule meetings by email. She already does email, and she already stores my appointments. Google Calendar integration remains a problem, but it's an orthogonal problem.

So, wouldn't it be cool to ask Sandy to schedule a meeting with four people and have her deal with the details? I'd use that, and since I often use Sandy to store the appointment anyway, it'd really be great, taking my mind off the trivialities of scheduling.

Thanks for the great service.

Is it possible yet to tell Sandy

"Remind me I have a Doctor's Appointment at 5pm Today."

And at 5pm That day, have your Twitter AUTOMATICALLY change to

"At the Doctor's"

Do you have any ideas of how Sandy could integrate with other web services?

I have some tags which are my "attention" tags, or those tags which are meant for me to take immediate notice of, such as 'for follow up' or 'urgent'. However, once I've completed a one of those 'for follow up' or 'urgent' which are marked @todo, it would be really nice if Sandy automatically removed the to-do from the 'urgent' or 'for follow up' tags, since whenever you complete an 'urgent' or 'for follow up' task, it always ceases to be urgent or for follow up.

This could be implemented with a checkbox or link on the specific tag's page, which allowed the user to check the box if he or she wanted Sandy to automatically remove done tasks from the tag.

With all the problems with Twitter recently, have you thought about directly connecting sandy to an IM service (GTalk probably) ?

I love Sandy; I couldn't manage without her. But without disloyalty, I sometimes think it would be fun to have some other choices of personal assistant: a faithful robot companion, say, or a lab-coated Igor (are my geek credentials showing?). . . each scripted differently, of course, but on the same basic model. I think people like to personalize, even just a little. And when I realize how "real" Sandy is to me, and to the people who know she works for me, I wonder if you couldn't generate even more loyalty by playing to that anthropomorphizing impulse.

For any assistants job is to sometimes retrieve a file or a document and send it to the boss. Either now pairing sandy with a file storage online or somehow creating even a 125mb storage place would be awesome

LIke if i have an important word document i can forward it to my Sandy's address and then tag it with different tags. then when I want that file later i can say "Sandy retrieve credit report document" or "Sandy retrieve document @credit"

I think this personally would give a lot more of the assistant feel. :)

I saw someone asking about an AIM Bot for Sandy. It made me think about those bots and how you can ask them questions like finding movie times and numbers for theaters, etc. I also know google has a sms text address to ask for locations and numbers to restaurants, bars, etc. What if Sandy did something like this with text or email? I think it'd be great 411 type service.

if there was a way that sandy would pass my sms reminders on to google calendar's sms update feature it might make them play nicer.
(see: http://urltea.com/38f1?gcal_sms_docum...)

sandy: r lunch meeting tomorrow at 2pm
gCal: lunch meeting tomorrow at 2pm

so close... there's gotta be a way, right? This would cover most, if not all, of the relationship sandy needs to have with gCal

So I had an idea to make it easy to get gCal events to Sandy:

If Sandy would accept emails from "calendar-notification @ google.com" (without having to verify), then we would be able to to forward google calendar notifications sent to our gmail to Sandy and she would accept them. (She also would have to accept the "[Reminder]" tag that is on the front of those emails instead of the usual "r" or "remind".

So what do you say? Any way we can make this happen?

Can we use a private url (like the one used to subscribe via iCal) to subscribe via rss? Wouldn't this solve the problem of not being able to use the rss feed with google reader or igoogle?

I want to be able to see my todo's on my igoogle page.

Maybe Sandy would be happier working with flurry.com instead of twitter.com, because flurry.com allows us to make groups. The groups can be an opportunity for Sandy to perform group calendaring and group reminding, instead of just individual calendaring and individual reminding.

I love how Sandy handles my Jotts. I would love it if Sandy could handle mileage logs dictated from Jott. For example, when leaving a destination I could dictate the date, current location, destination, and odometer mileage, and when I arrive at my destination I could dictate my new odometer reading and Sandy could update an ongoing mileage log with the total miles and details.

The current implementation of the RSS feed for my Sandy page shows items ordered by the date I created them. It would be much more helpful if the PubDate field showed the date and time my reminder or appointment is scheduled for.

It might also be nice to be able to subscribe to different feeds for the various available digest options (today, tomorrow, all)

Currently, Sandy orders things "Sorted by updated date (most recent first)". That's possibly ok for things like lists, but I hate it for my daily digest, appointments or tag pages.

Example: I sent in an email to sandy with all the opening dates for movies I want to see this year, all in date order from most recent to the far future, all tagged with @movies. I then added @movies to my daily digest. However, due to how Sandy reads emails, all my movies are now listed in -reverse- order, with the 2009 movies first, then in descending order. This means to see the next movie coming out, I have to go all the way to the bottom of my page.

Snapshot of said @movies page: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v70...

Aside from undated items, I don't really see the need for this ordering to be default. However, I'm sure someone prefers it that way, so I'm not saying do away with it, but add an option in the "settings" to set your preference. If there IS an option somewhere, other than adding in various flags in the URL, then I'm clueless where it's hidden as I've gone through it with a fine tooth comb.

How about when Sandy sends you an email with an event or reminder, there are check boxes next to each event. Then, at the bottom, you have the "Archive, Forget, Mark Todo, Download" option? This way if you have multiple events in one email, such as a daily digest email, you could quickly go through it and only click once.

It would be nice if you could set up a "thesaurus" for Sandy for the word "remember". It's more natural for me to use other verbs instead of remember. Like if I could tell Sandy, whenever I type "order", "call", etc that acts the same as remember.

Smell me? War Sandy!