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Hi. Kindly see the reply in this related thread.

Twitter has a 9-month rule for usernames that belong to accounts that haven't been updated.

I don't know if the 9-month period also applies to deleted accounts, though.

i have the same question! It's been almost 4 months and still nothing!

is there away to have sandy send more than one daily diget per day automatical say at 8:00am and noon?

I'm highly looking forward to this! I love I want Sandy, very very helpful.

This would be extremely helpful. Since you can now input multiple commands on new items, I would think this feature would be coming soon as well. +1

Ok, I've spent a bit playing around with Sandy's ability to capture text. I must admit that it is better than I gave it credit for in my original post. So, I'm very happy about that. This means that the "flexibility" issue between Stikkit and Sandy is a much closer race than I gave it credit for.

I'm going to call the Ubiquitous Capture issue a toss up for the following reasons:
- Stikkit archives all text for searching, Sandy does not. Sandy only archives text in the title of the note. A dedicated tag user should be able to keep things reasonably well organized, but full text searches can still be a life saver for someone that uses Sandy heavily.
- Sandy has Jott.
- Stikkit can make heirarchical todo lists, Sandy cannot (although she can make a mean non-todo list).
- I think I prefer Sandy's approach to bookmarks over Stikkits. Kudos for that.

So, some of my rant concerning Sandy's ability to capture text appears to be misplaced. For that, I apologize. However, I stand beside the rest of my post (until proven wrong again!).

This development in my understand of Sandy led me to play around with her some more. Here are a few other things I've noticed in reference to improving usability while on the move:

SMS interaction is sort of functional, but needs improvement. Specifically:
- replies from sandy are too long and are broken into multiple parts. I realize that this may be unavoidable (depending on search results), but a large part of the problem is all the formatting of the message. It would be nice if Sandy was smarter about sending messages to SMS addresses and changed her message formatting accordingly. Ditch the greetings and the "here's what I found"s. Just give us the goods.
- (I think this sort of goes with the previous point) Lookup seems to be broken via SMS. Well, detailed lookup at least. If I lookup a word, sandy sends me items that match the word. If I reply to the search results with "look up #1", she messes up and doesn't send me the detailed #1 info from the original search.
- Syntax needs to be refined as much as possible. Lets start with "-" to make a todo.
- remember vs remind me needs to be address... hopefully in a way that makes one of them NOT have a remind by default.

Hmm... interesting. I just spent 5 minutes or so testing Sandy and she IS performing *much* better in this regard. I'm not sure if code has been changed or if I was just getting buggy behavior, but this isn't how she was working several weeks ago. Nevertheless, perhaps that will teach me not to test something right before I write a giant post complaining about it!!

I'm going to put her through her paces a little bit more later today and see how robust it really is. Thanks for pointing this out, Austin.

I'm a little confused about the remembering all of an email part.

I forwarded an email to Sandy and at the top was this command: "remember paypal developer day info".

She made a note titled "paypal develop day info" and has the entire email stored. I'm pretty sure this happens with all of my messages:
* I forward a message of interest,
* change the subject line to something I'll recognize,
* add a command to Sandy at the top of the message

Regardless of the command at the top, she remember the entire email.

Is this what you were talking about, or something else?

fabulous post.

"remember" vs. "remind me" - a great suggestion.
Sandy should remember everything i send to her. i couldn't agree more.

You're welcome Rael. I really do like this family of apps and wish them all the success in the world.

While I'm here, let me add a little more detail to why it is so important to really hammer the kinks out of the 1v1 interaction with Sandy:

While it is certainly nice to be able to cc sandy on correspondence with friends and family when the situation calls for it, I really don't think this is going to be the primary use for Sandy. I imagine that most interaction with Sandy will take place where Sandy is the only recipient of text from the user, which is why it is so important to open up all these avenues of interaction.

The reason this is the case is because most people don't want to take the time to explain why they are addressing an artificial intelligence in their emails. I'm an engineer by profession... if I start addressing other people by name in my emails, my colleagues and clients would question my sanity (at best) or raise serious legal questions (at worst)! So, while the idea of cc'ing sandy on emails and having her pick things up on the emails you send anyway is certainly a novel idea, I don't see it as being the core capability here. That's what provided the impetus for all my rambling about perfecting access to Sandy from various avenues and streamlining the process as much as possible.

EDIT -- I also realize that cc'ing Sandy is a great method of advertisement for you guys, so I certainly think it has its place. Most of my friends and family already know I'm a giant nerd, so cc'ing them is no big deal.... but in the workplace, it is uncalled for. An app like this needs to be able to function equally well on both personal and professional levels if you want to gain any traction in the marketplace.