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peetyport replied on September 02, 2008 03:08 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

or just have a reminder day tag like @1day, @2day, @7day... All tags would be before the requested reminder and 90 days minimum should satisfy 90% of users. :-)

kevin1 replied on August 08, 2008 13:45 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

This feature was added in a recent update. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

You can now use a @reminder tag to tell Sandy when you want to be reminded. After the @reminder tag, put the date you want to be reminded. The date can be fixed (like June 20) or it can be relative to the date you want to remember. (use the word "before")

You can send a message to Sandy like this:
> Remind me that my father's birthday is on April 20th, @reminder three days before.

Elizabeth Wiley replied on June 26, 2008 21:13 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

how about:

r dad's birthday july 4
*n july 1 at 11:00

or something like that? or @n...

you could even require that it be a date instead of 3 days from now or that kind of thing.

wewhoeat replied on May 11, 2008 08:27 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

has this functionality been added yet? One thing I'm doing is using sandy to remind me about a TV show that's coming up so that I can Tivo it. I can't tivo it until 2weeks before air time so I'd like to set a reminder for that show time then put a handy relative offset like 7 days before on it. thanks.

Jacqueline A replied on February 20, 2008 19:57 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

In this same vein, I'd like to be able to set extra reminders for tags I've created. The example here is that I have costumed events I'm attending, and need an extra reminder x number of days before the event, reminding me to make sure my outfit is clean and ready to go. I would add a tag I created to each of these events, and I'd like to be able to specify that each event tagged with that particular tag requires an additional reminder x days in advance of the actual event. Each event requires the same number of days advance notice. This could be used to solve the birthday reminder requests in this thread, by allowing users to specify advance reminders for a tag they make (say, @rbirth) that they can add to all of their birthday appointments. That would be fantastic!

Rael Dornfest replied on January 21, 2008 17:44 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

Howdy folks,

We have this in our queue -- both to set default reminder times for SMS and Twitter and Email as well as something in keeping with Steve H's "remind me 5 days before Mum's Birthday 23/11 @yearly" suggestion.

—R

ukslim replied on January 21, 2008 11:19 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

I notice that the sample Valentines reminder uses the keyword 'by', but that it is a synonym for 'on' and does nothing special.

It seems to me that 'by' means 'on or before this date', meaning you'd appreciate occasional reminders in the time leading up to it. So if I say 'Sandy, remind me to tax the car by March 30th', I'd be grateful for a reminder 1 month, 2 weeks, 1 week, 2 days before, as well as on the day.

It's a chance for some cute secretary phrases: 'I know it's quite a way off, but you asked me to remind you ...'; 'It's just one day until'.

For me, this would meet the same need as the 'x days before' requirements, while sustaining the illusion of a real PA -- if I had a real PA I wouldn't ask them to remind me 3 days in advance. I'd expect them to show initiative and remind me at appropriate times.

c0n0r replied on November 28, 2007 19:05 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

I would love to be able to set reminders outside my defaults through email (or IM, or SMS, but those are other threads).

As a fairly hideous workaround, I have been putting dates and times in the text of the item to be remembered. So I get strings like this:
r "Mom's birthday is 12/29" 12/26 @yearly @birthdays

Steve H replied on November 27, 2007 21:57 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

How about the following

remind me 5 days before Mum's Birthday 23/11 @yearly

Dabao started following the idea "Event Triggered Reminders" in I want Sandy.

Eric T. shared an idea in I want Sandy on November 14, 2007 20:08:

Event Triggered Reminders

Are there plans to create a system of Event Triggered Reminders? Or does this already exist in some fashion?

Say for instance, I create a bunch of reminders for a specific Tag:

Go see Spamalot the next time I go to New York. @NewYork

Eat dinner at one of Mario Batali's restraunts the next time we go to New York @NewYork

Take a photo of the Statue of Liberty at Sunset from the Long Island Ferry. @NewYork

Then I add something like this:
Delta Airlines flight 111 SFO to JFK 12/12/2007 @NewYork_Trigger

So that when I send the last email, The response email sends the list of all @NewYork tagged reminders to me as a digest of reminders over time...

Another similar but more simple idea might be a message saying:
Send me a digest all of this months @birthdays

Thanks,
Eric T.

Eric T. replied on November 14, 2007 19:34 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

Hiya!

I see that we can do the X days before in the edit function which is great! But the reminder time is fixed at 6 am which is not! (Too early for an SMS message). Can we add a field to change it like the calender date setting has?

Thanks!
Eric

Rael Dornfest, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on November 10, 2007 00:02 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

Hi Stayfly,

I want a reminder a week before and the morning of a birthday -- imagine both remembering peoples' birthdays for a change and even having a gift to bring along!

--Rael

stayfly replied on November 09, 2007 22:52 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

this is something I would love as well. I week's advance notice on all Birthdays would be perfect =)

Rael Dornfest, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on October 29, 2007 23:20 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

Hi,

We've been noodling that for some time over here and haven't found a solution we're thrilled with yet. There are just so many nuances when it comes to specifying such a thing and we want to be sure Sandy doesn't stumble across something accidentally that would interfere with timely delivery of reminders. To that end, we're currently looking at using a few more special tags so that you can have as much raw power at your fingertips as you need but others can expect Sandy to make the right assumptions and not have to dive into more than they absolutely need to.

But know that we are still mulling this over -- and your input is more than welcomed!

--Rael

Eric T. started following the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy.