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Sandy pretends to understand "every", but doesn't
I told Sandy, "Remind me to do something every Tuesday evening".
She responded with an email "Do something" on Tuesday evening, but she did not store this as a recurring thing every week. I know that I can do this with "Tuesday @weekly", but "every Tuesday" sounds more natural. Sandy even parsed the "every" and stripped it from the reminder, so it looked like she understood. Why not make this just work?
She responded with an email "Do something" on Tuesday evening, but she did not store this as a recurring thing every week. I know that I can do this with "Tuesday @weekly", but "every Tuesday" sounds more natural. Sandy even parsed the "every" and stripped it from the reminder, so it looked like she understood. Why not make this just work?
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Inappropriate?I'd love to see natural parsing of repeats. The @weekly and such are find and dandy, but "sandy, remind me to mail the mortgage check every three weeks" would be *wonderful* to be able to send her.
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?Hi Christoph,
Good catch! While I'm not sure ending up with an appointment called "do something every" is any better, I'll definitely chat with Sandy about it.
Link D, I'd also love to have some more natural-ish language around repeating appointments, but we need to be sure Sandy doesn't get this wrong more than she gets it right. Something we learned from Stikkit was that magic that works even most of the time has nothing on the card-trick that works every time.
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Inappropriate?True, I can see how "every" shouldn't be interpreted as "every" (in the repeatable sense) every time. (Case in point. :D) What about "every" followed by a number (three or 3)? Are there instances that aren't meant as repeatable?
"remind me foo every 3 weeks" (expected usage)
"remind me to work on every 3 bugs" (I guess I can see how someone would write something like this, but I personally wouldn't ever choose that verbage. I would word it "remind me to work on all 3 bugs"
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