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A comment on the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

I like this because it follows the same model as Sandy working via email, in that you essentially bring her into the conversation; you would bring her into the meeting. – Geek Pirate Roberts, on May 08, 2008 17:35

A comment on the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

I've just started with Sandy. I use Google Calendar from Apps for Your Domain. Still trying to understand what I get from Sandy that I don't already have with Google Calendar. Two-way sync, even if primitive, would definitely make Sandy a sweet girl indeed: she'd be my email interface to Google Calendar.

Thank you! – Stanislav Shalunov, on April 16, 2008 03:22

Rene replied on April 09, 2008 06:59 to the question "I would like an indication of the number of items in my "Junk" folder. As it stands now, I have no idea when Thunderbird has decided that something is "Junk," and since I'm a fairly new user, its filters are getting it wrong a lot. So I periodically have to go click on the "Junk" folder to see if there is anything in it. I'd far rather just be able to see it darkened with a number next to it, just like the inbox/drafts/trash/etc have." in Mozilla:

Hello BMinFC! Sorry this isn't an answer for the problem you posted.

I just wanted to let you know that there's some new activity on the Thunderbird page and I wanted to invite you to come take a look. For one thing, there is now a Mozilla representative in the group!

Thanks!

Janice replied on February 28, 2008 15:52 to the question "How do I make Sandy talk to my 30 Boxes calendar? I tried following the Help instructions, but it didn't work" in I want Sandy:

It worked for me today as well and I didn't do anything differently. I tried at least 20 times yesterday with no success. Something must have changed at either Sandy or 30boxes overnight. I am HAPPY!!! Thanks to whoever made this work!

jjolet replied on February 28, 2008 15:24 to the question "How do I make Sandy talk to my 30 Boxes calendar? I tried following the Help instructions, but it didn't work" in I want Sandy:

That did it...I could have SWORN I cut and pasted that private calendar feed into there, AND switched the http to webcal when i tried it before. Must have fumble-fingered it. thanks.

kevin1 replied on February 28, 2008 07:22 to the question "How do I make Sandy talk to my 30 Boxes calendar? I tried following the Help instructions, but it didn't work" in I want Sandy:

There's a new calendar feed. The new one requires that you turn on a private calendar feed for your account. (Evidently some services such as Google Calendar and 30boxes, etc. are not able to use a password protected calendar feed. So instead we have to use a "private" calendar feed with a string of 50 random letters.) Check out the calendar help at http://iwantsandy.com/help/feeds#cale... or the Sandy blog at http://valuesofn.com/blog/

I did notice that 30boxes requires you to change the first part of your private calendar feed. From http://iwantsandy.com/.../list.ics to webcal://iwantsandy.com/.../list.ics

Janice started following the question "How do I make Sandy talk to my 30 Boxes calendar? I tried following the Help instructions, but it didn't work" in I want Sandy.

jjolet started following the question "How do I make Sandy talk to my 30 Boxes calendar? I tried following the Help instructions, but it didn't work" in I want Sandy.

jjolet replied on February 25, 2008 22:12 to the question "How do I make Sandy talk to my 30 Boxes calendar? I tried following the Help instructions, but it didn't work" in I want Sandy:

I'm interested in noting that I signed up for 30boxes because you specifically mentioned we could read your calendars from there. You really should remove that reference if the service doesn't work (the integration with them, not your service, that's great). It's very confusing.

Tracey R. replied on February 23, 2008 23:08 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

This is exactly where I am. I use gcal, RTM, gmail, Jott, and Sandy. I need to make it all work together, so everything can be updated when I Jott Sandy.

I just converted a guy to Sandy while standing in line at Trader Joe's. He was intrigued so I explained it to him. He is also in need of someone to follow him around and remind him to do things, and update his calender when things change.

Rael Dornfest replied on February 13, 2008 21:22 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

Thanks, Paul.

paul replied on February 12, 2008 00:28 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

OK, I have sent you an email with details. Briefly, I find that the ics files work in iCal but not gCal, even with a new event I created.

Rael Dornfest replied on February 11, 2008 16:24 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

Hi Paul,

Nice use of the word "redacted" ;-)!

I've taken an initial gander and what I'm seeing doesn't quite jive with what I see in your posted iCalendar snippet. Can you please email help@iwantsandy.com so that we can troubleshoot in a little more detail? (Please add "Attn: Rael" to the subject so that I can be sure to catch it when it comes in.)

—Rael

paul replied on February 10, 2008 19:30 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

I can't get the .ics files I get from Sandy to import into Google Calendar or iCal. iCal interprets them with no time specified (ie, all day events) and Google parses them as occurring at import time, if it manages to figure them out at all.

This is what I get (lightly redacted):

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:-//Values of n//NONSGML iwantsandy//EN
X-WR-CALNAME:Sandy
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:19700308T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:19701101T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
ORGANIZER;CN=Sandy [iwantsandy.com]:MAILTO:<redacted>
ATTENDEE;CN=Paul:MAILTO:<redacted>
DTSTAMP:20080210T191519Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080215
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:AUDIO
TRIGGER:PT420M
END:VALARM
SUMMARY:Swimming meadowbrook
DESCRIPTION:Tags: @exercise\nContext: remind me about swimming @ meadowbroo
k 1PM Monday Tuesday Thursday \n@exercise\n\nEdit: http://iwantsandy.com/
832621/edit\nForget: http://iwantsandy.com/832621/forget
URL:http://iwantsandy.com/832621
CREATED:20080210T191519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20080210T191519Z
UID:http://iwantsandy.com/832621
SEQUENCE:0
CATEGORIES:exercise
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
</redacted></redacted>

stomptokyo replied on February 08, 2008 17:24 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

One way to get closer to this goal would be to teach Sandy to intepret invitation emails from Gcal. One could create an event in a Gcal and invite Sandy as a participant. Sandy would accept the invitation and put it on your Sandy calendar. If you update the event, a new invitation can be sent out, and Sandy could update the event on "her" end. (Gcal already does this as a method of scheduling resources and rooms.)

The meeting would show up twice on your Gcal (once on the original calendar, and once in the Sandy feed), but at least it would work for updating Sandy on events that originate in Gcal.

dlemon replied on February 05, 2008 04:40 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

I currently use iCal w/ Sandy. I would love a way to have two way sync. Sometimes a quick email to Sandy is easy, other times a quick entry into iCal. In m world I can't live w/ either, so getting them worked together would make Sandy a perfect 10!

Nadia replied on February 01, 2008 15:28 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

I'm using ScheduleWorld to synch my Outlook2003 and lightning for firefox calendar and tasks. Works fine.

stomptokyo replied on January 31, 2008 15:17 to the idea "How to synchronize Sandy with google calendar/gmail or Thunderbird/lightning" in I want Sandy:

The killer feature here would be two-way sync. Here's what happens in my world:

1. I send Sandy an email (or these days, a tweet) to schedule an appointment.

2. The appointment shows up on my Google calendar, since I'm subscribed to the iCal feed.

3. I notice that the appointment conflicts with something else on my Google calendar (something that originated from outside of Sandy), so I want to change the Sandy appointment.

4. I go back to the Sandy website to change the appointment, or if I'm feeling brave, I'll use the "update" command. I don't quite have the hang of using update just yet.

In an ideal world #4 would read: "I make the changes right there on the Google calendar view and they get synced back to Sandy."

I'm sure there are all kinds of problems with this right now but I'm hopeful that it will be sorted out eventually. GCal is the office standard here, so as much as I like Sandy it needs to work with GCal. So far it works sufficiently well, but not as well as I'd like.

Thanks!

Chris

Marshall Roch replied on January 16, 2008 21:24 to the problem "I have SMS turned off in my Jott and Sandy options, but still get an SMS confirmation of items I call in to Sandy." in I want Sandy:

BMinFC,

If the SMS you're getting starts with "(Link Response)," it is generated by Jott. Make sure you've unchecked "Send SMS Response" on the Jott Link page:

1. Go to http://jott.com/JottLinks.aspx
2. Click "Edit" next to Sandy under "My Links"
3. Uncheck "Send SMS Response"

This setting is unrelated to the "If you would like to receive a text message for every jott you create, send it to: ..." preference in the My Phones section of the Jott settings.

Hope this helps,
Marshall