UPDATE for April 7th, 2008

Happy Monday!

Despite having just served up a large batch of fresh-baked features and fixes [http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...], we just couldn't help but strike while the oven was warm and make just a couple-three more.

—Rael

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NEW: Special tags: @birthday and @anniversary

It didn't take a rocket scientist to notice the co-occurrence of @birthday and @anniversary tags with the special tags @yearly or @annually. It just took a little time for us to twig to a simple solution: turning @birthday and @anniversary into special tags, of course!

Never miss another birthday or anniversary! Leave the remembering (and any angst) to Sandy.

To have Sandy remind you about a friend's birthday, write to her with the person's name, birth date, and tag it with @birthday like so:

> remember Mimi's birthday 7/8 @birthday

Sandy will schedule a repeating yearly reminder (just as if you'd used the @yearly or @annually tag).

May at least the one anniversary you remember be your own! Ask Sandy to remind you about your anniversary, your parents', your children's, your sibling's, ...

> remember Our anniversary Aug 15 1993 @anniversary

(A word of caution: be sure you've got that date right; there's nothing that deflates a hearty "Happy Anniversary!" quite like being off by a month.)

A hearty "Thank you!" goes out to Alex Foster for teasing the solution out of our brains with his detailed write-up on "Using IwantSandy to remember birthdays" [http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/2008/04/0...] — and for sporting his Sandy flair [http://iwantsandy.com/sandbox#flair]!

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TWEAKED: Saying "Thursday" on a Thursday

Now this is one that's perhaps harder to explain than to intuit (try saying it three times quickly yourself), but here goes:

Sandy now assumes that when you say "Thursday" on a Thursday you mean Thursday of next week rather than the Thursday of today.

Sandy's client JRK kindly noted that saying "Remind me to do something on Thursday afternoon" had Sandy confusingly scheduling that something for that very day (when that very day was a Thursday) when if that's what you actually meant, you'd have said "Remind me to do something this afternoon" [http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...]. Thanks, J!

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TWEAKED: Simpler, cleaner, shorter SMS

Squinting at a 5:30pm @weekly Sunday @home @todo reminder text/SMS from Sandy yesterday, it occurred to me just how much simpler, cleaner, and shorter Sandy's mobile reminders would be without the useful-yet-an-eyeful list of trailing tags.

And so, in the spirit of our optometric approach to fit and finish ("Better here... or here? A or B?"), we asked Sandy to leave those tags out of text/SMS reminders for what we believe is an improvement in both aesthetics and readability.

Better?

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TWEAKED: Your stuff sorted in reverse-chronological order

A recent update twiddled default sorting of "Your stuff" so that appointments and scheduled to-dos appear in chronological order; contacts, bookmarks, lists, and notes alphabetically. What was perhaps confusing was that the default (if you just chose "Your stuff" from Sandy's menu bar) also defaulted to alphabetical order.

So we've switched the default back to reverse-chronological order with your most recently updated stuff appearing first.

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DOCUMENTED: Time-zones, @birthday, and @anniversary

We've added details on Sandy's recently-announced [http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...] support for specifying time zones and the promotion of @birthday and @anniversary to special recurrence tags to Sandy's Guide and Cheatsheet.

Grab a fresh copy of Sandy's cheatsheet: http://iwantsandy.com/help/cheatsheet

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