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Totally agree.

My major interaction with iwantsandy is through command line entry e.g. "r pay bill tomorrow". Using twitter makes this "d s r pay bill tomorrow" which is OK. But... messy and unnecessary.

IM is a natural way to send these instructions to iwantsandy.

When on the desktop, and on the iPhone, I use mail.app to send instructions to iwantsandy, but desktop mail.app complains when I don't fill in the subject. Not a big deal, but also messy and unecessary.

What I might do, is create an Applescript that will bring up a dialog box for me to enter my command entry, which is sent to my iwantsandy email address.

I think a similar thing on the iPhone would be cool (i.e. click a single icon on the page, which brings up a page whose sole responsibility is to receive text data that is emailed to my iwantsandy account).

I'm probably misunderstanding the question, but I'm using a Google Apps account and can see sandy's individual items show up in the google calendar. Is that what you're trying to do?

Since you can't modify the calendar entries directly and have the changes flow back to sandy, I treat it like a read-only view...

I went to sandy's settings page, turned on calendar sharing, found the blahblah.ics url and stuck that into Google App Calendar's "Add by URL" thingy and paste the ics url in there. (leastways, I think that did it).

Is that at all close to what you're looking for? If not, explain more and i'll try again.

Sure. Using Ping.fm you can update your twitter status or send direct messages.
In order to do that, you first set up your twitter account to work with ping.fm, then you set up ping.fm to work with google talk (add buddy pingdotfm@gmail.com and send a confirmation).
Then, make sure that Sandy knows your twitter account.

Sending a task or a reminder:
e.g. @tt d s r to find some CDs to take to the car @home @todo

@tt - that way you tell ping.fm to update your twitter status
d - direct message
s - Sandy's twitter username
r - "remember"
@todo @home - tags

Unfortunately, Sandy can not notify you via ping.fm, Though with twitter sms alerts enabled you may get some reply. It isn't very stable lately

I attempted twittering Sandy a couple days ago (boy, does that sound naughty!) and failed horribly. Can you briefly describe how you set up ping.fm to IM sandy? Can Sandy notify you through IM with ping.fm?

Thanks!

While twitter im is down, i'm using ping.fm to IM Sandy. Looks like "@tt d s r to move car in 20 min". Isn't very convenient to type, is it. Would love to have a direct Sandy-gTalk tool

Howdy, Alex!

This has been solved for Austin et al using some troubleshooting instructions I posted at http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy... .

Please do give that a whirl and let us know how you get on (please post to that discussion thread so that we can consolidate a little so as to help out the next person who might run into trouble).

—R

More extensive troubleshooting is available on the Outlook thread.