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kevin1 started following the idea "Email Signature" in I want Sandy.

A comment on the idea "Email Signature" in I want Sandy:

the "--" is the RFC standard for Beginning a Signature, it's recognized by alot of software.. I'm honestly not sure if it's recognized by Sandy or not, but a simple test might give you some happiness. – Yeraze, on August 07, 2008 14:31

A comment on the idea "Email Signature" in I want Sandy:

No. Literally, a "--" does the trick? – Brandon, on August 07, 2008 13:56

Yeraze replied on August 07, 2008 13:52 to the idea "Email Signature" in I want Sandy:

JUst curious, but are you using the "Standard" double-dash before your signature? I've never had the problems of which you speak.

Alysson replied on August 05, 2008 21:59 to the idea "Firefox plug-in for Sandy" in I want Sandy:

great idea with Firefox & Evernote!

Brandon replied on August 02, 2008 05:29 to the question "printable list of contacts that includes details" in I want Sandy:

Right there with you, Geoff and Ron. Would like to see basic contact details when printing that list. While else would anyone print it?

Brandon started following the question "printable list of contacts that includes details" in I want Sandy.

Brandon started following the question "Lookup in Google Contacts?" in I want Sandy.

Brandon replied on August 02, 2008 05:26 to the idea "Contact Management" in I want Sandy:

Could you use @contactname and just make sure whenever you add a list, note, todo, or appointment that you also use @contactname to tie them together? Then you could do a lookup for that contact. Wouldn't that work?

Brandon replied on August 02, 2008 05:23 to the idea "Firefox plug-in for Sandy" in I want Sandy:

Great idea Chris. Someone else mentioned it at one point, but it didn't get traction...

Brandon started following the idea "Firefox plug-in for Sandy" in I want Sandy.

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 21:24 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

got it... you were close on the phone # its actually the address data in gmail exports out as

LABEL;TYPE=HOME=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:"a bunch of text for address"

Doesn't look like sandy can handle this input... I don't know if its non standard, I'm guessing the fault is on Sandy's side.

... now what I don't understand is my initial failures with just the two vcard ID"s. Those shouldn't have failed and in fact if I import that same file now Sandy accepts them!

Yeraze replied on July 03, 2008 18:12 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

hrm.. None of mine had phone-numbers.. If you remove the 2 phone numbers from the first contact and then send it to her.. Does it work?

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 18:01 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

im XP32/Pro and FF3... sandy will accept a single entry from me but not more. From the above post example i can do either entry but not bot together in a vcf file.

alone works

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:someuser
N:last,first;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:someuser@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=HOME:someuser@cox.net
TEL;TYPE=HOME:555 555 5555
TEL;TYPE=CELL:555 555 5555
END:VCARD

alone works

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:another user
N:last1;first1;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:anotheruser@cox.net
END:VCARD

does not work

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:someuser
N:last,first;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:someuser@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=HOME:someuser@cox.net
TEL;TYPE=HOME:555 555 5555
TEL;TYPE=CELL:555 555 5555
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:another user
N:last1;first1;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:anotheruser@cox.net
END:VCARD

I tried a couple of different entries and doesn't look like sandy want's to parse more than one... format doesn't seem to be an issue just multiple vcards in the file.

Yeraze replied on July 03, 2008 17:34 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

I'm running windows XP64, using FireFox3.. My vcard looks like this (sanitized):

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:Bob Jones
N:Jones;Bob;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:bobjones@hotmail.com
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:Jane Jones
N:Jones;Jane;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:janejones@comcast.net
END:VCARD

I simply attached it to an email to sandy (via gmail), with no subject or body (Aside my from sig). During the export, I chose "vCard" format, and saved it as "contacts(4).vcf".

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 17:22 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

Whats your platform? i'm running xp and saving the .vcf to local hdd and then sending it to sandy as an attachment. Did you put anything in the subject or body?

I just did my 'most contacted' which is 20 entries and it failed. Sandy replied "I got your email but couldn't find anything you asked me to do. Let's see if we can quickly remedy that:...."

here is a snip from the first two entries... in my .vcf (modified user info)
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:someuser
N:last,first;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:someuser@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=HOME:someuser@cox.net
TEL;TYPE=HOME:555 555 5555
TEL;TYPE=CELL:555 555 5555
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:another user
N:last1;first1;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:anotheruser@cox.net
END:VCARD
....18 more entries

Yeraze replied on July 03, 2008 16:12 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

I just exported 6 contacts into a vCard file from GoogleMail, and then forwarded it to Sandy, and she got all 6 contacts with no problems.

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 15:43 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

Looks like this 'feature' is remains entirely broken. I have tried to export my gmail contacts and import them into Sandy with an attached csv and vCard with no joy.

I don't want to use Tracy's method as I believe it strips all of the meta.

Any idea on when this will be working?

waffles replied on May 17, 2008 10:09 to the question "Keywords in contacts" in I want Sandy:

I sent Sandy a message saying "remember an 82 is a B @note" and got back a contact whose name is "An a B".

What?

TracyJane replied on April 15, 2008 21:48 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

I just tried this and it WORKED, requires basic knowledge of Excel and MS Word. The idea is to use a little conversion magic to create a text file with each contact on a separate line and word REMEMBER in front of it and paste that into email for Sandy. There are probably any number of ways to do that...here's what I did: Make a CSV file for your contacts (export from wherever they are), open the CSV file in Excel, add a column to the front and fill it down with "REMEMBER" then select the whole thing, copy/paste into MS Word...replace tabs with spaces (use CTRL-H and enter ^t as symbol to represent tab, and just put a space in the spot for what to replace with)....Once that is done you'll have a document with REMEMBER and each contact info on a separate line. Then copy that whole thing and paste into email, send to Sandy. I imported about 300 contacts and there were about 6 with errors but that's not too bad!
Good luck.