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Theory replied on February 01, 2008 00:12 to the problem "I cannot get lists to work right" in I want Sandy:

Hi Amy,

Can you paste in an example for us to see? It might help the rest of us to see what's going on.

Thanks,

David

Theory shared an idea in I want Sandy on January 31, 2008 19:28:

Need More Content in RSS Feed

The RSS feed needs some love.

I'd love to see a lot more information for items in the RSS feed. Ideally, it'd have everything that's in the UI. There is no description now, but it'd be great to have:

* The context
* Links to update, forget, archive, snooze, etc. (that stuff that's in HTML Mail).

Thanks,

David

Theory replied on January 29, 2008 18:10 to the idea "Would you support a '2007-12-25' date format?" in I want Sandy:

You can create events using this format right now. Do you mean you want it as a setting to accompany the US and European formats?

—Theory

Theory replied on January 26, 2008 19:18 to the question "How do I chose which items I want an SMS message sent to my phone for?" in I want Sandy:

Howdy,

The trick is to tag your messages with @sms. If you have your mobile configuration all set up, but disable the "Mobile Reminders" feature in http://iwantsandy.com/settings/mobile , you can then tag something @sms and you will get an SMS reminder.

HTH,

David

Theory replied on January 26, 2008 00:19 to the problem "SMS replies to twitter messages" in I want Sandy:

Hi Shawn,

Sandy replies to your tweets via both Twitter and email. So if you send a lookup, Sandy will send you a direct Tweet in reply with the first result, and an email with all of the other results. If you ask her to remember something via Twitter, she will reply via Twitter to let you know she got it, and send another confirmation via email.

To the best of my knowledge, Sandy will not send you SMS replies, though she will send you SMS reminders if you've enabled them in your Sandy settings. But if you have SMS enabled for direct messages sent via Twitter, you'll get her tweets via SMS.

HTH,

David

Theory marked one of Link D's replies in I want Sandy as useful. Link D replied to the question "How exactly does the numbering system work?".

Theory reported a problem in I want Sandy on January 25, 2008 23:28:

All Day Event Reminders Have Empty Parentheses

When I set up an untimed (all-day) event, reminders come with empty parens in the subject, such as "REMINDER: Order RAM ()". I think that the code decides not to put in the date or time because the reminder is the same day and there is no time, but it needs to then also omit the parens.

Theory replied on January 22, 2008 19:37 to the question "how do I get sandy to remind me something on an hourly basis?" in I want Sandy:

Glad to help, Susie.

Best,

David

Theory replied on January 22, 2008 19:36 to the question "Is there a way to have Sandy ignore dates that are part of the item being remembered?" in I want Sandy:

Yes, just quote the item to be remembered:

Remember "the Wednesday meeting" on Thursday

Best,

David

Theory replied on January 22, 2008 00:06 to the question "how do I get sandy to remind me something on an hourly basis?" in I want Sandy:

Hi Susie,

No, not exactly. The way I'd do it is to identify what hours I wanted to get reminders and create separate ones for each hour:

r Check mail at 2pm @daily

r Check mail at 3pm @daily

r Check mail at 5pm @daily

And so on. That should do the trick.

HTH,

David

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 29, 2007 01:37 to the discussion "New! Power move: Have Sandy remember an entire email message" in I want Sandy:

Yes, Non-Sequitur is right. Sandy doesn't understand numbered lists, just bulleted lists using *s.

Best,

David

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 29, 2007 01:36 to the discussion "New! Power move: Have Sandy remember an entire email message" in I want Sandy:

Yesh, sorry Forge42, we didn't get the deploy done until about an hour ago. Please do give it another try now. Sorry for the delay.

Best,

David

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 28, 2007 05:10 to the discussion "New! Power move: Have Sandy remember an entire email message" in I want Sandy:

Hi Lista,

Thanks for the detailed experimentation, it's a huge help. I've just finished working with Sandy to make the following changes:

* When you send a message with "remember @tag", she no longer gets confused, but properly remembers the message as a note, taking the name from either the subject or the first line of the following paragraph.

* When you have a subject such as "Remind me in 3 minutes", if the message is not in reply to a reminder (in which case it snoozes the reminder), Sandy tries to construct a title from the first paragraph of the email. This should prevent the dreaded "[no name]". The detail still won't be stored as a note, though. Because you've asked for a reminder, Sandy assumes that it's an event. At least for now.

* I wasn't able to replicate the inability to click on the name of the detail the UI, though; when I had an unnamed event, I was still able to click on the words "[no name]". Have I missed something?

Thanks again for the very helpful post!

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 28, 2007 05:01 to the discussion "New! Power move: Have Sandy remember an entire email message" in I want Sandy:

Hi Forge42,

In addition to the workaround that Lista found, I've helped Sandy to be less confused about remembering an email when you use a tag with the "remember". That change will likely go live in a few hours, which means that your example should work the way you expect by the time you email Sandy again tomorrow.

Thanks for the report!

Best,

David

Theory started following the discussion "New! Power move: Have Sandy remember an entire email message" in I want Sandy.

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 23, 2007 23:11 to the question "Lookup replies to phone" in I want Sandy:

Hi Dabao,

Yes, this is normal. Sandy does, however, send the first result of the lookup back to Jott. If you have checked the "Send SMS Response" in your settings for the Sandy Jott link on jott.com, you should get that message from Jott via SMS.

HTH,

David

Theory started following the question "Lookup replies to phone" in I want Sandy.

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 22, 2007 22:35 to the problem "i keep getting server errors when i try to jott sandy a reminder" in I want Sandy:

Hi paul ,

What sort of errors? Are you using the Jott Sandy link or just having Jott send email to Sandy?

Best,

David

Theory started following the problem "i keep getting server errors when i try to jott sandy a reminder" in I want Sandy.

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 21, 2007 23:38 to the question "To what number to we send text messages to Sandy at?" in I want Sandy:

Well Twitter is free, too. I use it with Sandy a lot. She likes it, too. ;-)

Best,

David