I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results.

After doing some digging around and playing today, I did find it would return my results with the lookup, but in the case of items with a specific tag, it would only return the first item via SMS. (This is when I set up my items as separate entries all tagged with @shopping.)

When I tried setting up a list for Shopping and asking it to lookup that, it just returned the name of the list via SMS.

Either way via email gave me the results I wanted, but I would find it to be absolutely KILLER if could get an SMS on my phone in the middle of the store of all my items either tagged a certain way or the full text of the list in the SMS. How would I do that in the middle of the store? Simple - just use Jott to send the command to Sandy. It works great, except that I cannot get all the items (first match only for a tag), or I only get the name of the list.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me get all items in my SMS that match a tag or get a full list! You would make sure my children were getting their milk and/or juice because I never remember my paper list when I leave for the store!!!!!! If I could call Jott from the store and get an SMS response with everything, it would be INCREDIBLE!!!

I agree, this would be incredibly useful and am looking forward to seeing a solution.

I also agree. This is what I think would make Sandy a Killer App for me.
I'm not organized at all. I'm lucky if I remember to put on pants when I leave for work. This is why I need Sandy. I need to a way to access my lists and reminders after I've already gotten to the store. True, entering the reminders helps me remember them myself slightly better, but if I could have this stuff sent to my phone, I'd be beside myself with glee!

The 160-character limit on SMS messages makes this a tricky request. One workaround would be to break up a longer message into multiple messages. If your phone has a web browser, another possibility would be an SMS reply that contains a link to a web page that shows your lookup results. The site isn't very easy to access using the browsers on my phone, so in the case of the web link it might be preferable that login not be required.

I'd prefer the multiple SMS messages - but I get free incoming messages and do not have a web browser. Maybe it would be a setting if people wanted a full lookup response sent via SMS so those who don't want to run into $$$ with multiple messages could avoid it. This would still be such a killer for me. I did try messing around with the GMail interface my cell provider provides in their 'tied-down' browser (not a full web browser), but it was so slow and painful and I ended up having problems. I would love just the nice clean SMS message(s)!

Just signed up for Sandy & found this topic in looking around. I have wanted an easy access to my groc. list for a VERY long time. Just another "Here, here" to this idea! Purty, please.

Let me add a HUGE ditto to this! I actually signed up for sandy because I thought the service + twitter might have this kind of functionality, and I am disappointed to find that it does not. This feature would seriously make Sandy a must-have for GTDers. And the feature would seriously rock. my. world. If I had it, i couldn't do without it.

As an aside, I love the cupcake avatars!

Glad I found this thread. I would also love this feature. Especially the part about using Jott.

Currently it's possible to text Sandy (by using Twitter) and Sandy will respond to the text message (through Twitter). (Note: Twitter must be set up to forward direct messages to your cell phone.)

There are two problems with this. 1) even when Sandy replies through Twitter, she only replies with the *name* of the list. 2) There isn't a way to Jott to Sandy and have her respond to my cell phone (by sms or Twitter). I've tried some extensive workarounds too. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

I kinda-almost found a workaround for this. I found a free service (http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-e...) that will take an email and forward it as an SMS message to your phone. I then wrote a filter/rule in my email client to forward any message from Sandy with the word "lookup" in it to the service. The problem is all the heading info is more than 160 characters so all you see in the text message is the forwarding information!

What I need is either a email to sms service that has a good formatter built in or an email client with the same.

I have been trying all day to figure out how to get Sandy to text me my grocery list!! I'm glad other people are looking for this feature.

Oooo... I found something cool. At the risk of seeming rude (and I will immediately switch back to using Sandy for this when the feature becomes available), you CAN use a Twitter/Remember the Milk (rememberthemilk.com) combo to have your tagged to-do lists (created/managed on RTM) sent to you via sms. If your list is longer than what will fit in one sms, you'll continue receiving SMS messages until you've received all of the items on your list.

Downside: when Twitter is down, this obviously doesn't work.

Documentation here:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/servic...

Not perfect but does the job. Seriously, this feature is the only reason I opened up an RTM account, and it seems to work pretty well (I'm planning a huge family event, and this feature is a godsend.) I will gladly consolidate to IWantSandy when Sandy offers this feature!

p.s. You can also use Jott/RTM link to add items to lists if you'd prefer, and use the "tag with" voice command to tag the item as you see fit (e.g. "groceries".)

I asked Rael and he said that Jott already had this feature. I wasn't sure, so I checked it out again.

Initially I tried setting Jott so that it sends "confirmation text messages". (http://jott.com/settings_phone.aspx) This didn't do what I wanted though..

The correct thing to do is to edit your "Jott link" for Sandy. In Jott, click "links" , then click on the "Edit" for your Sandy link. Finally check the "Send SMS Response:" button and save.

As a side note: there is an additional problem in Jott. It turns out that you have to be careful that you don't have yourself listed as a contact. (The same phone number you registered with Jott) Evidently that confuses the service. See this link. (http://jott.com/jott/faq.html#a58)

Still, this solution will have Jott send an "SMS response" for *every* Jott you make to Sandy. Not just the ones where you want her to lookup something.

(Jott help page. http://iwantsandy.com/help/jott)