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Howdy!

I wanted to provide a quick status update on Sandy's Twittering abilities following yesterday's Twitter congestion [http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...] due in no small part to WWDC [http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/] and the sheer number of people following the "Stevenote" [http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net...].

The Twitter status blog reports that the "API request limit has been restored to 20 per hour." Sandy talks to Twitter as much as she's allowed — which means she'll be picking up your tweets every 3 minutes or so given the current rate limit.

If you happen to notice any Twitter updates before we do, please do share the latest here with your fellow Sandy clients!

Best,

Rael

Howdy!

Our good friend Greg Borenstein over Ideas for Dozens has written up some wonderfully helpful articles on:

Working with Sandy via Twitter/SMS

A port of the fabulously useful "QuickSilver Append Trick" (for the incomparable QuickSilver on Mac OS X

And, my personal favorite of his write-ups — keeping things front-and-center using Safari's new Web Snippets feature

Greg writes:

I've made two Sandy-related widgets: one for my appointments for the month and one for my items tagged @computer. I use the @computer tag in a GTD-ish manner to specify TODO items that I can accomplish at my computer.

One of the big lessons I've learned from my attempts at doing GTD has been the importance of putting your inboxes and other TODOs directly in your path, someplace you'll stumble over them in the course of your normal daily operations. And these little applications are a really lightweight way to do just that, eliminating nearly all the friction involved in maintaining and making reference to my lists and reducing the opportunity for fiddling to a minimum.

If GTD is your cup of Rooibos, I highly recommend you take his instructions for a spin.

Thanks, Greg!

—R

Hello friends of Sandy,

As some of Sandy's more adventurous clients have already noticed*, Sandy's more than aflutter over Twitter [http://twitter.com]. She's ready to chat with you by direct private message from your mobile phone over text/SMS or your desktop via instant messenger (AIM, iChat, Gtalk, and LiveJournal).

Twitter with Sandy by direct private message just as you would any of your other Twitter friends and she'll twitter you back (almost always within a minute).

To get Twitter and Sandy talking, visit your Twitter settings at http://iwantsandy.com/settings/twitter and follow the 4 easy steps to introduce Sandy to your Twitter self.

Essentially, you'll become Twitter friends, mutually following one-another.

Then try:

> d s hi

(In Twitter-speak, this means: "Send Sandy a direct private message saying 'hi'." Note that Sandy's Twitter user name is "S" rather than "Sandy" or "iwantsandy", saving your thumbs some mobile typing.)

Sandy will reply to your tweet with instructions on asking her to remember or remind you about things, look things up, etc.

> Hi, I'm Sandy, your personal assistant.
> Set a reminder: r go for a walk in 15 mins
> Look something up: l today
> Invite a friend: invite pat@example.com
> About me: visit iwantsandy.com
> More examples: visit iwantsandy.com/examples
> Help: visit iwantsandy.com/help/twitter

Right now Sandy will respond to "remember" or "remind" ("r" in even shorter shorthand), "lookup" ("l" as in lower-case "L"), and "invite" ("i"). She'll soon be able to update and forget on Twitter just as she does in email.

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Don't forget the "d s" bits when twittering to Sandy!** Twitter is a broadcast medium by default, so simply twittering "remember to wear pants" (while an entertaining tweet ;-) will go out to all of your Twitter followers rather than privately to Sandy.
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You'll find more detail on Sandy's Twitter help page at http://iwantsandy.com/help/twitter

Enjoy!

Rael

* Rich over at Dinsdale! not only noticed that Sandy was paying attention to tweets before we even had a chance to announce this feature ;-), he even wrote up a lovely how-to. [http://dinsdalepiranha.wordpress.com/...]

Howdy!

Here's a little something we've been all aflutter about over here at Sandy Central...

If you're a twitterer, Sandy can now send you reminder tweets using the Twitter's direct private messaging feature [http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=...].

From there you can redirect those reminders to your mobile phone by SMS/text message (of course you can already have Sandy do that); your desktop via AIM, iChat, Gtalk, and LiveJournal; or just silence when you want a little quiet time.

This is one small step for Sandy, but the first toward accept tweets from your cellphone and IM client.

You'll find my Twitter page at: http://twitter.com/s

(I'm using "S" rather than "iwantsandy" to save your thumbs some mobile typing.)

Find out more about twittering with Sandy at: http://iwantsandy.com/help/twitter

Or just go ahead and introduce Sandy to your Twitter you at: http://iwantsandy.com/settings/twitter

Enjoy!

Rael