How do I use relative dates, like "remind me to move my car the first wednesday every month?"

I like this too. Something like a @thirdfriday @secondmonday series of tags, perhaps?

Agreed! It's useful!

I have several monthly meetings that are on the third Thursday, or second Friday that I would love to add to reoccuring in Sandy. Is there any plans to add this kind of relative date support?

Great stuff, but please include a specific date every month e.g. on 11th day xyz @monthly

I agree this is a great feature but it could be tough to implement via the natural language interface. What would you guys think about making this a feature that can only be accessed via the Sandy website? IE - you create an appointment however you want and then you log into your account to set up the custom reoccurance?

I ask because I was thinking this would be a great feature to have as well (I'm addicted to it in PocketInformant for my PocketPC), I just don't know how the Values of N folks can set it up via natural language. Perhaps some special tags could be used here... but... I dunno.

Personally I would not mind having it as a website feature. In fact as a novice user I've missed the website editing. But, you could perhaps expand your date formats:

Example 1:
you already recognise dates, so adding "on 10th day" (meaning 10th of the current month) and tagging it @monthly should do it.

Example 2:
you already recognise relative date formats, e.g. Wednesday, next week. You could add format "[ordinal number][period]", e.g. "2nd Tuesday" and specify iterations with a tag.

I realise what seems to be easy for me, may not be easy to implement on your side. Thanks for your continuing interest in this feature

Regards
cj

This is something I'd definitely like Sandy to be able to do, as I have an important job on the third Thursday of every month that I'd like Sandy to be able to remind me about. Any progress on this?

Seems like this thread has been abandoned so I'll just add a renewed plea for this essential feature. I see the original question was posted seven months ago, do any of you employee folks know if it's due to be added any time soon? Sandy would be much more useful if she could do this! Thanks

Even if it was just manually defined terms for each of @firstsunday .... @fifthsaturday, that would be fantastic! Entering these dates manually is for the birds.

I just want to add my vote for this feature.. Meetings are scheduled like this. @firstmonday type tagging would be great

Some suggestions:

1) ideas on how a new tag should be:

Sandy can already do this:
> remember to buy bread @daily (repeats every day)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @daily (delays until Tuesday, then every day)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @weekly (repeats every Tuesday)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @biweekly (repeats every other Tues)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @monthly (repeats on the same day every month.)

> remember to buy bread Tuesday @monthly_dayOfWeek (repeats on the same dayOfWeek every month.)

My idea is that there only be one or two new tags. It would be a different kind of "monthly" tag. It would repeat every month on the same day of the week. The "2nd Tuesday" or "3rd Sunday" of the month don't need to be specified in the tag. The dayOfWeek and the "2nd" or "3rd" in the month are automatically determined by Sandy depending on when the start date is.

(Although the name @monthly_dayOfWeek is terrible, we should come up with a better one. Maybe @monthly_weekly?)

2) also need to count down from the LAST day of the month.

To do it properly, the FIRST Tuesday of the month is only half of the problem. There's also the LAST Tuesday of the month, and the second to last, and the third to last.

We need to be able to specify if Sandy should consider the repeating event starting on Tuesday to repeat on the THIRD Tuesday of the month, or the SECOND TO LAST Tuesday of the month.

> remember to buy bread Tuesday @monthly_dayOfWeek_reverse

bump! I have several things that happen on this type of format, like the first Wednesday of each month. Any news on that front? Remember the Milk does this kind of format, but I can't stand their service since they can't parse times from the subject.

It looks like it's been a year -- this would be *very* valuable to me, since I have a "fourth Friday" meeting that requires me to get to work an hour or a bit more earlier than I usually do. I'd *really* rather not have to hand enter this every time -- if only because I'm perfectly likely to forget it.