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Any update on this, yet? Has development on a Sandy IM interface started yet? :)

Some suggestions:

1) ideas on how a new tag should be:

Sandy can already do this:
> remember to buy bread @daily (repeats every day)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @daily (delays until Tuesday, then every day)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @weekly (repeats every Tuesday)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @biweekly (repeats every other Tues)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @monthly (repeats on the same day every month.)

> remember to buy bread Tuesday @monthly_dayOfWeek (repeats on the same dayOfWeek every month.)

My idea is that there only be one or two new tags. It would be a different kind of "monthly" tag. It would repeat every month on the same day of the week. The "2nd Tuesday" or "3rd Sunday" of the month don't need to be specified in the tag. The dayOfWeek and the "2nd" or "3rd" in the month are automatically determined by Sandy depending on when the start date is.

(Although the name @monthly_dayOfWeek is terrible, we should come up with a better one. Maybe @monthly_weekly?)

2) also need to count down from the LAST day of the month.

To do it properly, the FIRST Tuesday of the month is only half of the problem. There's also the LAST Tuesday of the month, and the second to last, and the third to last.

We need to be able to specify if Sandy should consider the repeating event starting on Tuesday to repeat on the THIRD Tuesday of the month, or the SECOND TO LAST Tuesday of the month.

> remember to buy bread Tuesday @monthly_dayOfWeek_reverse

I just want to add my vote for this feature.. Meetings are scheduled like this. @firstmonday type tagging would be great

Since Twitter is unreliable, I would really appreciate using IM.

Even if it was just manually defined terms for each of @firstsunday .... @fifthsaturday, that would be fantastic! Entering these dates manually is for the birds.

I too would love to test! – RJ, on June 26, 2008 13:50

Thanks. If you need someone to test it, I would be very happy to. – waffles, on June 26, 2008 12:32

Hi Waffles! It's definitely been on our agenda, but we'd want to be sure that it was both stable and lived up to expectation. – Rael Dornfest, on June 26, 2008 10:01

Well, I thought I'd dig this up again. Twitter was Sandy's IM interface for a while, and now it's been gone for over a month.

I'm not going to ask for Sandy to have her own IM stuff done this week (although I wouldn't complain if she did). But I would like to know if this is still a possibility.

Right - the IM should not depend on Twitter. Twitter isn't dependable, so if I'm going to depend on Sandy I need a better way of interacting with her. The web interface is nice, but it's not going to integrate with any type of smooth consistent daily workflow. IM solves all those problems and it's not very hard to set up. I want to use Sandy on a daily basis for everything, but I need either a nearly-flawless twitter or IM to make that happen.

Twitter IM is broken. Just thought you'd like to know that.

sure,
Here's how you can get Sandy+ twitter
http://www.iwantsandy.com/help/twitter

Here's how to get twitter+IM
in Twitter page, go to settings->devices->IM

And here's the blog about current Twitter+IM service
http://blog.twitter.com/2008/05/too-m...

Seems like this thread has been abandoned so I'll just add a renewed plea for this essential feature. I see the original question was posted seven months ago, do any of you employee folks know if it's due to be added any time soon? Sandy would be much more useful if she could do this! Thanks

Care to share?

just found out how to link sandy+twitter+im couple days ago. Also found out that twitter stopped their im service.

+1 for Sandy+im without twitter

I hope that the last week or two of im-less twittering has elevated the priority of this a bit.

I would vote for native XMPP (jabber -- gtalk, etc)

I would enjoy a native MSN Sandy. I've already got her on Jabber via Twitter, and IMified when the Twitter bot is down; but the interfaces aren't nice and sandy (uh, dandy) and, friends on Windows do not usually have Jabber clients installed but always an MSN client. I find IM to be the quickest way to interact with Sandy so it'd be neat to have when borrowing a computer.

Also, Sandy doesn't seem to respond to lookups via Twitter. That is something which would be absolutely valuable to access via IM.

Update: internally it could of course be a Jabber client employing xmpp transports - so long I can add Sandy on MSN without resorting to Jabber (or otherwise) myself. I tend to avoid installing programs on other folks' computers.

I'd really like to be able to use AIM since that seems to be more reliable than Twitter. Can we get a very general/rough guess on when this could happen?