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I've given up on this (and Sandy as a whole), Bren.

For whatever reason, the Sandy team seems more concerned with adding superficial features than making the ones they already have work properly. I'm pretty sure that soon, I'll be able to contact Sandy via smokesignal.... but basic lookup commands still won't work.

The fact that these threads still get responses after al this time suggest to me that a lot of folks feel like I do: Stikkit had so much more promise than Sandy currently does. Sorry, not trying to be a troll, but that's how I feel.

These are some nice additions and all, but is there any chance we could get lookup working in gmail sometime soon?

Any luck with this Rael?

Thanks Rael. I hope you can get it resolved. – Forge42, on April 15, 2008 15:28

Hello?

Anyone?

*tap tap*

Is this thing on?

So you mean I'm NOT insane!! Great! The only downside is that means that this really is a very significant problem with Sandy. Can we please have a little help over here?!? – Forge42, on April 14, 2008 12:33

This functionality still isn't working for me and it is really crippling Sandy's usefulness. FWIW, I'm using the gmail web interface.

Nope, not an aquisition. In short, Stikkit has been "abandonded in place". It is maintained but will not be developed further (at least, that is my understanding). Check this thread here for the official word:

http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Bump?

Ok, here's what I've done. First, I create a test message by sending the following to sandy in the body of an email (no subject):

<sent>
remember Wisdom From Rael @sandy

Q: Is it possible to get the full context of an item via lookup? For instance, say I sent sandy an email with a big block of text that I want her to remember. Then, I ask sandy to lookup something that returns that message. However, all that is really visible is the title of the item and perhaps any day/time associated with it. How can I get sandy to send me the big block of text via lookup or some other email interface? My ideal solution would be for lookup to continue to function as it does, but, if you reply to a "regular" lookup with something like "lookup #2", you get the full context of item #2 from that particular lookup query.

A: When you do a look up #1, scroll down to the bottom of the reply from Sandy and you should see the full context of the original message quoted in its entirety.
</sent>

Then, I do a lookup with the following command

>lookup rael

I received the following response from sandy:

<response>
Buenos dias, Forge!

Here's what I found matching "rael":

#1 Wisdom From Rael
- tagged with @sandy
- context: remember Wisdom From Rael @sandy
- http://iwantsandy.com/779920

Ready to help,

Sandy

-----------------------------------
Tip: To have me forget the 1st item, reply with: forget #1

P.s. Too chatty? Too terse? Tweak the way we work together! [http://iwantsandy.com/settings/email]

On Saturday, February 2 at 10:14 AM, Forge wrote:

> lookup rael
>
</response>

To this response, I reply with:

>lookup #1

In response to this, Sandy sends (this is the full text, copy-pasted from my gmail):

<response>
Hey, Forge!

Here's what I found:

#1 Wisdom From Rael
- tagged with @sandy
- context: remember Wisdom From Rael @sandy
- http://iwantsandy.com/779920

Grok on,

Sandy

-----------------------------------
Tip: To change the 3rd item's date or time, reply with: update #3 5/14/08

P.s. Too chatty? Too terse? Tweak the way we work together! [http://iwantsandy.com/settings/email]

On Saturday, February 2 at 10:40 AM, Forge wrote:

> Subject: Re:
- Show quoted text -
</response>

The link given in the response is a live link that takes me to the item on sandy's website. I would like to be able to see the full text (ie - the Q and A text) w/in my email for improved mobile interface. From what you're saying, you think this is doable. However, from the experiment above, it doesn't seem to be working.</sent>

This isn't working for me. When I reply "look up #1", I just get the summary info again, not any more details.

Ok... one little request... could we make a shorthand for the @noreminder tag? That thing is a lot of key presses for an SMS.

Splendid splendid splendid!!!

Very flexible and very out of the way! Great work guys!

Nice testing Lista!

The only comment that I would add is that the only people Values of N can blame for us wanting full text searching is themselves! Stikkit had that ability and it was simply stunning. I certainly hope they get that up and running in Sandy sooner rather than later. I would assume the primary hurdle is processing power and processing time.

Thanks Theory. It seems to be working now.

However, not all is as I expected. From Rael's original post, I expected the entire text of the message to be "searchable". That's doesn't seem to be the case (at least not immediately after an item is added). Words that appear in the items title are immediately searchable, but text beneath that level is not. Does it take some time for the search feature to log the entire text of the item? Or is this not intended to be a feature currently?

Hey Theory:

Thanks for addressing this. As of 8:15am Eastern Time, I'm still not having any luck. I sent the following text:

>remember @test
>
>I certainly hope this feature works.
>
>I really hope that I can search for unique words that don't appear in the items title.
>
>Peanuts.

And got back an "I don't see anything to do message." Has the change gone live yet?

Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't that what it is supposed to do?