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Has any progress been made with this? I'm using an iphone too and I really want the notifications coming into my text messages because I respond to text messages on an individual basis where I don't automatically respond to each received email. And with all the problems I've read here with Twitter, I'm very hesitant to commit myself to using that service as an intermediary between myself and Sandy.

Has this been fixed?

You can set the reminder time via the website once you've scheduled the event. Specifying the exact reminder time via the email is possible, but still in testing so I'll let Rael decide whether or not he wants to start advertising that :)

Hi. Twitter IM is currently down and has been down for a month or so. It'll be back eventually, but no one knows when.

Try using another interface for Twitter. You could try the web interface, the SMS interface, or you could use a 3rd-party application for Twitter such as Twhirl, http://twhirl.org

For more information on this outage, please take a look at this other thread right here on GSFN.

Any news on this?

I would also love to have this ability. The standard interval is great for most things, but if an appointment is across town I might need 30 or 40 minutes lead time to get there. I don't need an exact "remind me at 8:15a" per se, but if there was a way to override the default reminder interval to a custom one (i.e., @alert30) for that reminder that would be fab.

I think that Iavardera and Aitese have it pretty well thought out. I second their ideas.

It should be possible to both SCHEDULE an event and specify a REMINDER for the event in the same email. I will point out that it should also be possible to set *multiple* reminders for the event in the same email. Each reminder having its own scheduled time, and its own tags. Different calendars let you do this. (Google Calendar, etc.)

It seems that the best way to schedule reminders would be to use multiple sentences. Just like they've been suggesting. Trying to cram everything into one sentence wouldn't allow for support of multiple reminders. Maybe Sandy should pay attention to where the period is and then interpret the following sentences accordingly. If the sentence starts with the word "remind", then it's a reminder for the event scheduled in the previous sentence.

The time/date in the reminders should be allowed to be relative to the time the event is scheduled for. I expect that the word "before" will be used a lot.

Format:
> Remember A at time/date. (The event is scheduled. Either a default reminder is scheduled or no reminder is scheduled.)

> Remember A at time/date. Remind B at time/date @email. Remind C at time/date @sms.

Examples:
> Remember A at 09/12/07 at 7pm. Remind me to leave at 6 pm @email. Remind me to stop and get chips at 6:40 pm @sms.

> Sandy, remember Meeting with Joe on XXFeb08 12:30pm. Remind me to prepare 1 day before @email. Remind me to leave 1 hour before @sms.

Maybe this idea would be easier to implement using the tag "@reminder". The keyword could be used to specify a reminder that attaches to the previous sentence. (We already have the tag @noreminder, so this tag would make sense.) The advantage to this is twofold. First, Sandy doesn't have to distinguish between "remember" and "remind", instead, a new command is being added. Second, this might make it easier for Sandy to spot where the reminder commands were.

> Remind me about GZA at KOKO on 09/12/07 at 7pm. @reminder to leave 45 minutes before @sms. @reminder to buy chips 1 hour 30 minutes before @email.

Heh!

Just such a flurry today combined with my probably having taken off my glasses for a moment. Sorry to have swept you back up into it again ;-).

I'm so glad you're enjoying and finding Sandy's services useful. As for how and when we monitize the service, I'll write more shortly (there was another such question in another thread I was going to get to this morning before the flurry). But suffice it to say, we do remain as ever committed to always having a free account with forthcoming service layers and associated functionality for which we will be charging (reasonably).

—Rael

Hi Clif,

You're absolutely right. And we'll get to it the moment things approach normalcy and we can dive back in to the work we were doing before today.

—Rael