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Spam replied on May 15, 2008 07:28 to the question "Can you have Sandy remind you of something every 6 weeks?" in I want Sandy:

This would be a huge, HUGE help for me. I have a job I work at every 3rd Thursday (not the 3rd Thursday of each month), and I have the toughest time remembering which Thursdays they are. At the moment, all I can do is to schedule them individually, which is prone to human error and is something that I would trust Sandy to do better than I would!

I'd say @3weeks, @3weekly or @weekly3 would be a decent way to tag it. (Adding the word "every" would make it awkwardly long.)

Burton replied on December 15, 2007 21:27 to the idea "Adjust Time Zone setting's by SMS or email?" in I want Sandy:

And it would be really, really nifty if you could parse the zone out of the reminder, so that

Remind me at 8am PST

would work. In my travels, the problem is that the zone I'm in and the zone I will be in and want the reminder in might differ.

-----Burton

Burton replied on December 15, 2007 21:23 to the question "Can you have Sandy remind you of something every 6 weeks?" in I want Sandy:

I'd sort of vote for parsing this out of the "Remind me" request...

These work now, right? As I'm writing this on 12/15

Remind me tuesday at 6am - means 12/18
Remind me next tuesday at 6am - means 12/25

Remind me every tuesday at 6am - would mean 12/18. 12/25, etc.
Remind me (first | 1st | last | 4th) tuesday [of every (month|quarter|year)]

So Remind me 1st tuesday - would mean 1/1/2008

-----Burton

lintqueen replied on December 14, 2007 19:41 to the question "Can you have Sandy remind you of something every 6 weeks?" in I want Sandy:

For what it's worth, @every6weeks makes perfect sense to me :-)

Thanks for the response!

Rael Dornfest, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on December 14, 2007 19:22 to the question "Can you have Sandy remind you of something every 6 weeks?" in I want Sandy:

Hi Lintqueen,

No at present. We've been considering just what such a tag would look like...

remind me to mow the lawn @6weeks @sixweeks @every6weeks @sixweekly @6weekly

They all feel slightly, well..., blech!

But we continue to noodle this -- not just the tag, but also how we teach Sandy to understand this in the first place.

Also on this list (for your reference) are: @quarterly, @"first thursday", (and, semi-relatedly: "in 5 working days" or "in 7 business days").

—R

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DCGaymer replied on November 15, 2007 19:51 to the idea "Adjust Time Zone setting's by SMS or email?" in I want Sandy:

Yup...my SMS and cellphone time switches too... Otherwise I'd never know exactly what timezone I was in...LOL

Rael Dornfest, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on November 15, 2007 19:47 to the idea "Adjust Time Zone setting's by SMS or email?" in I want Sandy:

Hi DC,

So when you change time-zones, does your SMS device of choice switch too? I've seen it both ways.

Rael

DCGaymer replied on November 15, 2007 19:44 to the idea "Adjust Time Zone setting's by SMS or email?" in I want Sandy:

Thanks for the quick reply Rael,

I'm glad to hear it's on the roadmap....I THINK you're on the right track. If Sandy had a preference toggle for, "Adjust my timezone from my most recent correspondence" my problem would be solved.

Regarding laptop's....in order to travel lightly I've ditched it and use SMS almost exclusively.

Rael Dornfest, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on November 15, 2007 19:23 to the idea "Adjust Time Zone setting's by SMS or email?" in I want Sandy:

Hi!

We actually have that in the roadmap -- the ability to change most of your settings by emailing Sandy.

In fact, we have had it on our list for a while to automatically adjust if Sandy notices that your timezone has changed (the one your email program adds to your outgoing mail). But then we found -- anecdotally at least -- that people don't tend to change their computer's time-zone when they travel. Do you?

I'm sorry the settings by email feature isn't available to help you on any trip you might currently be on, but they're definitely on the list.

Rael

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