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c0n0r replied on December 03, 2007 21:24 to the problem "Email message misinterpreted" in I want Sandy:

Are you preferences set to automatically include others, to ask you, or to ignore other recipients?

c0n0r replied on December 03, 2007 21:22 to the question "update reminders from daily digest" in I want Sandy:

As long as you reply to the daily digest email, and the full text is included below, this should work. I regularly do this exact action as I check off todos throughout the day.

c0n0r replied on December 03, 2007 21:21 to the question "Is there a way to select EITHER an SMS OR an email reminder?" in I want Sandy:

I think it might be problematic to try and be able to modify this through the text strings on individual events. However, I see no reason why there can't be preference settings to set SMS, email, or both reminders as default for todos vs appointments, for example.

c0n0r replied on December 03, 2007 21:19 to the question "Remind about time A at time B" in I want Sandy:

This is what I do... so to reproduce Darryl's event, I would send:
r "stone soup today at 11:15" today 10:45

Since the reminder happens 15 before the event, setting the event for 30 min before it actually starts generates an alert 45 minutes early.

This is an ugly work around, but it works.

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c0n0r replied on November 28, 2007 19:24 to the discussion "Prioritizing todos" in I want Sandy:

If you look at your daily digest online, ie your Sandy "home page", there is a "Customize your Daily Digest" link in the lower right.

The direct URL is:
http://www.iwantsandy.com/digest;cust...

This allows you to enter a tag that is always shown in your digest & on your homepage.

I don't have any one tag with more then a couple dozen items, so I don't know if there is any kind of limit of number of items displayed.

c0n0r replied on November 28, 2007 19:17 to the idea "tracking packages" in I want Sandy:

While one of the developers would have to confirm or deny... I suspect that it would be difficult to implement different tasks, such as a status check vs. a delivery notification.

What would be awesome, and I think doable, would be a "track" verb that triggers Sandy to go get status on the package. The return email could then include a link to the shipper's tracking site. I don't know if you could really have Sandy provide delivery confirmation though.

c0n0r replied on November 28, 2007 19:10 to the discussion "Prioritizing todos" in I want Sandy:

Couldn't you just at additional tags to the items when submitting as a todo? I regularly use the @urgent tag, and have added it to daily digest, so I see all urgent items, even if they have due dates past today. If you wanted more verbose options, you could use a scale like: @low, @medium, @high.

I know it's not perfect, but it works. And it even lets me flag meetings and notes rather then just todos.

c0n0r replied on November 28, 2007 19:05 to the idea "I want to be able to specify in my email how soon before the event to be notified" in I want Sandy:

I would love to be able to set reminders outside my defaults through email (or IM, or SMS, but those are other threads).

As a fairly hideous workaround, I have been putting dates and times in the text of the item to be remembered. So I get strings like this:
r "Mom's birthday is 12/29" 12/26 @yearly @birthdays

c0n0r replied on November 28, 2007 18:58 to the question "Keywords in contacts" in I want Sandy:

In my opinion, this is another situation where additional verb keywords might help. Right now the remember verb (and thus the "r" shorthand) is essentially a catch all for creating notes, bookmarks, contacts, or events.

Perhaps you could add a verb that keys the info to be a contact, and thus specifically look to parse phone, address, email, etc.

I am having trouble thinking of a good "contact"ish verb, maybe "add" or "file" (think digital rolodex).

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c0n0r replied on November 27, 2007 01:30 to the idea "Undo rather then warning" in I want Sandy:

Awesome catch Jos. Do you know if that link is a clickable button anywhere on the site, or do I need to bookmark that specific URL?

c0n0r replied on November 27, 2007 01:21 to the idea "Undo rather then warning" in I want Sandy:

Depending on what you did that you want to undo, there may be record of the action so you can at least manually undo it.

If you click to the right of the search box in the upper right of the Sandy website, you get a chronological list of each item you have submitted (and I *think* even updated). You may be able to scour through this list to see what happened.

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c0n0r replied on November 27, 2007 01:08 to the question "how do you create a bookmark or note?" in I want Sandy:

An additional problem I see with using standard forward/reply quote characters to indicate a note... what if I include Sandy in a conversation with multiple people, replies get quoted, and additional events get directed to Sandy later in the string. I could see where action items suddenly getting huge paragraphs of text added to them accidently.

c0n0r replied on November 27, 2007 00:50 to the question "how do you create a bookmark or note?" in I want Sandy:

I like the idea above about using the @note and @bookmark tags, and while I don't believe that it would trigger Sandy to change the type of artifact she remembers (i.e. adding the @note tag to what is obviously a meeting shouldn't file it as a note instead of an appointment), it should allow you to easily lookup all your notes or bookmarks, if that is your net goal.

I kinda think that the forwarded text is kind of a clunky solution, especially if you are trying to send a note from your phone or Jott (which is the kind of situation where I would think the note function is likely the most useful.

Instead, why not just create special functions for the verbs "note" and "bookmark". Right now, the only verbs that seem commonly used are "remember", "remind", "lookup", and "update". But "note" & "bookmark" seem to make sense as other possible options. And strings like the following make sense too:
b www.iwantsandy.com
Sandy, please bookmark www.getsatisfaction.com
note Steve likes risotto, but Pat can't stand the stuff
n Molly's shoe size is a 4 @shopping @gifts

Perhaps have the "note" verb could even shut off looking for additional instructions at later paragraph breaks, allowing for any block of text to follow to be considered part of the note. In this case, your above note would just have to look like:

--
To: Sandy
Subject: re: that thing

n @things

This is that thing I was telling you about. Before you dismiss it as just another thing -- like one of those Thing Ones or Thing Twos -- you should know that it is potentially the most interesting thing I've ever encountered.

...
--

Just my 0.02

c0n0r replied on November 27, 2007 00:34 to the question "Change the reminder time with an email" in I want Sandy:

kind of a clunky, yet doable work around would be to set the time of the meeting as part of the event title. For example:

r "Super Meeting at 2pm" Wed 1:15pm

Would generate a meeting reminder at 1 pm with the text in quotes as the message.

Though, I agree, it would be awesome if there was a more elegant solution. Perhaps code could be added to allow editing of the reminder time independent of the event.

c0n0r shared an idea in I want Sandy on November 27, 2007 00:29:

Weekly todo

In your examples, you list a weekly reoccuring event, like taking out the trash. In my mind, this is a reoccuring todo. This sounds like an interesting idea, say if you have a weekly status report due CoB every Friday.

However, the current implementation of this prevents from marking a reoccurring event independent of the series. For example, if I use the following string:
r Check-in lastest code Monday 5pm @work @todo @weekly

When I update today's event as done, it strips the @todo off the entire series, and deletes the future recursions.

Is this feature possible? Is there a string that I could use that would be better?

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