create your own special tag??!! please!!

Actually, all the current repeating events (and their special tags) are a hack. They're not really necessary if the proper repeating event type were created. This single event type would be more flexible, and would fix the problem that Alexandra bought up.

All current repeating events are really the same repeating event type. It's just made more confusing because they all use "special" tags. The one single event type would have a field where it would be specified how often to repeat the event. (Every x years, and x months, and x days, and x hours.)

With the single repeating event type you could schedule an event to repeat every 4 hours. Or every 18 months. Or every 4 months and 3 days, or every 28 days, etc, etc, etc. It would be really easy to specify the repeat interval on the web site too. The only hard part is figuring out how to specify the repeat interval by email.

Sandy, remember to take out the trash Thursday night @repeat weekly.
Sandy, remember to buy new toothbrushes today @repeat every 3 months.

The one recurring event type that I talk about here is not the *only* recurring event type, Like korym mentions, how to get Sandy to repeat an event on the third Sunday of the month, that can't fit into the formula above. Because it's not a definite amount of time. It varies depending on the month. Some months it would be every 4 weeks, some months it would be every 5 weeks. So you would really have to do something special for that.

Note that I'm not criticizing Rael here. He's done a good job on Sandy and she's very useful. But the repeating events could still be cleaned up a little. In particular, I think that the current repeating event special tags (i.e. @weekly) should only work in email, maybe only when creating the event. After that, it really isn't necessary to keep things "tagged" with @weekly, etc.