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How to postpone a reminder through SMS?
How do I "postpone" a reminder from Sandy through an SMS? For example, if I am reminded that I need to call somebody, and I receive and SMS informing me of that, how do I get re-reminded in 15 minutes?
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Inappropriate?As far as I know, there isn't a way to do this with SMS. There is a way to do this with Twitter.
You can't send an SMS directly to Sandy.
1) You can connect Sandy to your Twitter account and then send an SMS to Twitter and use that to "direct message" Sandy.
2) You can use your phone to send an email to Sandy.
3) I've heard that some people can set up their phone somehow so that they can SMS the address that Sandy messages come from, but what happens is that AT&T (or Verizon, etc.) has a gateway and converts the SMS that was sent to that address into an email. So Sandy receives an email.
I don't have any experience with #3. It's just something I read.
There's an additional problem with SMS as well. Most SMS messages don't quote or refer to the original message. So even if you reply to an SMS, Sandy won't know what you want to snooze. (They were able to get around this limitation somehow. I think it has something to do with the numbers. Like #3.)
You CAN snooze reminders over Twitter.
(Tag the reminder with @twitter, not @sms).
http://iwantsandy.com/help/twitter
http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...
Example:
> [from Sandy] #3 Reminder: go for a walk (Wed, 12/19/2007 12:45pm)
> d s remind me in 5 minutes
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> d s forget #3
> d s update #3 tomorrow at 12:45pm
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Inappropriate?Howdy,
Thanks, Kevin, for taking the time to answer Shinedown's question!
If you find yourself wanting to respond to Sandy's SMS reminders on a regular basis — this happens to me when I'm at conferences as I am right now — you may want to switch to Twitter reminders [http://iwantsandy.com/settings/twitter] and turn off mobile text/SMS reminders [http://iwantsandy.com/settings/mobile] (unless you want the duplicates/back-up).
As Kevin mentioned, you can then reply to the reminders by asking Sandy to snooze an item by number. For example:
Sandy sends you a reminder tweet: "[from Sandy] #3 Reminder: go for a walk (Wed, 12/19/2007 12:45pm)"
You send her a direct Twitter message: d s remind me about #3 in 15 minutes
As opposed to how things work by email, Sandy rolls those numbers over each 24 hour period (so you might be up to #41 today, but you'll start again with your first reminder tomorrow being numbered #1) when reminding you via Twitter.
Why don't we do that across all reminder methods? Good question — and one we'd like to consider fixing such that you could receive an SMS reminder for "#3 ..." and be able to email Sandy with "To: Sandy; From: Me; Subject: remind me about #3 in 15 minutes".
That said, we're considering labels instead of those numbers so that you could say 'remind me about "groceries" in 15 minutes', no matter how you write to Sandy. This is fraught with implementation work to be considered carefully, but we're definitely considering it.
As usual, we'd love to hear from you with any input, suggestions, confusions, or anything in-between — as we like to say here, you can help us help Sandy help you!
—R
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