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Keywords in contacts
Can you publish more documentation about what reserved words cause Sandy to treat a new item as a contact?
I often want to create an empty contact -- a contact record for a person whose contact info isn't handy at the moment. Usually I do this because I want to put the person on a list (via a tag).
I've already discovered that
r Jane Doe, Atlanta, GA @importantpeople
isn't good enough -- Sandy doesn't parse the city and state as an address.
So I've had to resort to
r Jane Doe email foo@foo.com @importantpeople
which creates a contact record with a fake email address -- and that's dumb!
(FYI -- I'm using Sandy to keep track of my Christmas card list this year, which is how this came up.)
I often want to create an empty contact -- a contact record for a person whose contact info isn't handy at the moment. Usually I do this because I want to put the person on a list (via a tag).
I've already discovered that
r Jane Doe, Atlanta, GA @importantpeople
isn't good enough -- Sandy doesn't parse the city and state as an address.
So I've had to resort to
r Jane Doe email foo@foo.com @importantpeople
which creates a contact record with a fake email address -- and that's dumb!
(FYI -- I'm using Sandy to keep track of my Christmas card list this year, which is how this came up.)
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Inappropriate?In my opinion, this is another situation where additional verb keywords might help. Right now the remember verb (and thus the "r" shorthand) is essentially a catch all for creating notes, bookmarks, contacts, or events.
Perhaps you could add a verb that keys the info to be a contact, and thus specifically look to parse phone, address, email, etc.
I am having trouble thinking of a good "contact"ish verb, maybe "add" or "file" (think digital rolodex). -
Inappropriate?I also can't figure out how to create a new contact record with both Name and Organization. If I try this:
r John Doe, Doe Productions, cell phone XXX-XXX-XXXX ....
then "John Doe" is ignored and I get a contact for Doe Productions. I've tried with the word "organization," but it doesn't help. -
Inappropriate?After a bit of experimentation this works to create a contact:
Remember
name: Fred Dibnah
org: Steeplejack
note the colons. Does not recognise "address:". A workround for the original problem would be:
Remember
name: Jane Doe
org: Atlanta, GA
Could also use dept: Atlanta, GA
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this answers the question
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Inappropriate?I thought I could add new contacts using Sandy. I wrote: R Joan Doe, 123 Any Street, Anytown, NY.
Sandy sent me a contact that I could save to Outlook, so that was great. BUT, where there wasn't information (phone, fax, e-mail) she substituted my information (my phone, fax, e-mail). Not sure why this happened. Any thoughts or solutions.
I can delete the wrong information but that doesn't make it easy to add names to Outlook using Sandy. -
Inappropriate?I sent Sandy a message saying "remember an 82 is a B @note" and got back a contact whose name is "An a B".
What?
