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Elizabeth,

Sandy has a web-based user interface. iwantsandy.com How are you not aware of it? I thought people had to go to the website in order to create an account.

What about the development of a general web-based user interface for editing? LIke where you could click and remove and add items from the website? I really like the flexibility that I can use email and sms, but I would like it coupled with the convenience of a simple, visual user interface available online that requires no memory of commands or power moves.

You could sort them on normal Sandy front page by using the "Customise" option top right of the daily digest white "page" (i.e. not top of web page, just white area where sandy writes the digest).

In there you can opt to separate out certain tags and they separate out in the order you type them so typing

@1 @2 @3 @4 @5 @Todo @shopping @work etc etc etc

Produces

@1
Pay X
Do Y

@2
Sort out B

@3
Ring Z

etc etc

Also uses this sort in your emailed Daily Digest

For multiple tags you get them in full for the first tag they match then a note at the end of the other tags e.g.

@todo
Do gardening

See also #1, #4 and #5 above

Using @a @b @c @d etc. seems a little terse. Using @low @medium @high doesn't seem right either. I've settled on @priority1 @priority2 etc

The real question is, can I get items with different priorities to show up in different colors? (i.e. appear highlighted.) This is for the web site and the html email.

Sandy does this now with overdue todo items, can this be expanded upon?

Nope, it works for anyone that you include in the receipents' list. I've just read again the part on Sharing in the guidebook and it's not mentioned anywhere that it applies only to other Sandy's users. Just try and see if it works for you.

Sharing according to Sandy's guidebook only works with people who are also Sandy users. Short of creating a bogus Sandy account, I dont' see how this works with an alias for a group of people at work.

Yes, you can do that. Read more on the shared items in the Sandy's guidebook.

I think I get your method, and I tried implementing it. I get a list of items tagged with my priority tags (a,b,c,...) but they aren't sorted by tag?!

What might be amiss?

Thanks,

Lew

Howdy,

I just did a little to-do prioritizing to test something out (I'm not a big fan of prioritizing by number or letter or the like myself) and thought I'd post a suggestion here:

Let's say I had Sandy remember 4 to-dos for you, like so:

remember bottom priority thing @todo @e
remember top priority thing @todo @a
remember medium priority thing @todo @c
remember another equally high priority thing @todo @a

(Pretend, of course, that I'd sent these over some period of time by email.)

Now I visit my to-dos by clicking "Your stuff > To-dos" [http://iwantsandy.com/list?type=todo]. I see my to-dos in tag order, but still have a lot of other things mixed in (ex. @todo @home), when what I really want is a list of prioritized to-dos only.

So I select my priority tags from the right-hand sidebar's tag list (a, b, c, d, and e), one at a time.

And I de-select the "todo" tag as otherwise I'll see all my to-dos, not just the prioritized ones.

And then I bookmark that page [http://iwantsandy.com/list?type=todo&...,b,c,d,e,f&sort=tag]. Now any time I want to see my to-dos sorted by priority, I just visit that bookmarked page and there they are. Similarly, to see only those items that are top-priority, I visit http://iwantsandy.com/list?type=todo&...,b&sort=tag .

While I don't usually prioritize things in this way, I do indeed use just this method for keeping track of my fixmes (if you're a programmer, you know what I mean ;-):

http://iwantsandy.com/list?type=todo&...

And things I've been meaning to get to around the house:

http://iwantsandy.com/list?type=todo&...

Enjoy!

—Rael

Michael,

Sandy is trained to ignore "and" and "or" between tags. What does she tag it with when you include the "and"?

Marshall

I've found something that works a bit better. If I want to add, say, the following three tags, work, money, and home. I say, "tag with work money home" In other words, I don't repeat the "tag with" and I don't use "and" between the tags. It works most of the time.

Marshall, I tried your suggestion, but didn't get better results, unfortunately.

Hi Michael,

What you're experiencing is certainly a bug that we'll look into. Do you have better luck if you say "tag with work and Tim and todo," instead of repeating the "tag with"?

Marshall

I find though that if I use more than one tag, say, "tag with work," "tag with Tim," etc. Sandy often gets: @work, @tag, @with, @tim, etc. In fact, something like this almost always happen when I jott Sandy regardless of how careful I try to be in speaking. I've tried "tag as work" or "tagged as work," but it doesn't help.