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jimmy replied on September 19, 2008 16:21 to the question "send a text message sms reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

Hey afield, use a free service like http://www.textreminders.net
You can send a one time reminder right from the homepage, or register on the site to send recurring reminders.

bigfan replied on August 29, 2008 01:20 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Yes, ReQall will send multiple texts.

Unfortunately, it is limited to only one shopping list. RTM is superior in this respect. However, if all you need is the one, ReQuall is much easier and faster to set up than RTM/Twitter.

Personally, after Jott and Sandy (both of which I love dearly), I was just exhausted with setting up and learning new systems and so I liked ReQuall because it met my needs without any tweaking and no learning curve. However, GTD followers and others who rely extensively on multiple lists would greatly benefit from the RTM/Twitter combo!

dandykins replied on August 28, 2008 17:23 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Yeraze,

Combining Remember the Milk/Twitter, a person can use their cell phone to direct message Remember the Milk on Twitter, and RTM sends a particular list from one's RTM account (you have to add RTM as a friend on your Twitter account, and RTM on Twitter has to know what RTM.com account you have, but you get the picture.) If the characters in the text message exceed Twitter's limit, RTM just sends multiple text messages until the message is complete.

I don't have experience with ReQall yet, but I'd imagine this is how it would work there too.

Yeraze replied on August 28, 2008 17:03 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Complete replies via SMS is tricky because SMS (like twitter) has a very restrictive character limit.

How was ReQall accomplish it? Multiple text messages?

bigfan replied on August 27, 2008 22:08 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Sandy and use it extensively in through Jott. That said, there is a free outside source solution. I use reQall specifically, and only, for SMS access to my shopping list.

"With reQall’s organizing and sharing capabilities, the family shopping has never been easier. Because reQall recognizes key words like "buy," it can put those items right on your shopping list.

Enter “buy milk” and reQall knows to put it on your shopping list.
Want to share the shopping with your spouse? Just enter, “Tell John to buy shoes for the kids,” and it will go on his shopping list.

Even better, this memory tool connects it all! So you never have to stand in the middle of the grocery store and realize “My shopping list is on the frig!” Just call reQall on your cell phone and have reQall play your shopping list or even better, send it to you in a text message. "

bigfan replied on August 27, 2008 21:41 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Complete lookup replies via SMS is really a must. Please, please, please!?

Fox Mulder replied on August 17, 2008 04:33 to the question "send a text message sms reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

This is currently a feature of this program you may have missed in the manual if I am not mistaken

"When you make me part of an email conversation, I will automatically email the other recipients (anyone else in the To: or Cc: fields), with appointments, reminders, to-dos, contacts, or bookmarks you had me create" - from section near the end called "Sharing"

You just CC: the other person you want included. and in the message or subject start the command with "Sandy" For example:

"Sandy, Remind my forgetful fred to take pick up the concert tickets this Friday"

I might make a video version of the manual because the manual has a lot of "Wows" when you actually get what is possible. Hope this helps afield. and Chris. Cupcakes and Coffee/Tea perfect combination. I think I am getting fat.

kevin1 replied on May 29, 2008 21:24 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

I asked Rael and he said that Jott already had this feature. I wasn't sure, so I checked it out again.

Initially I tried setting Jott so that it sends "confirmation text messages". (http://jott.com/settings_phone.aspx) This didn't do what I wanted though..

The correct thing to do is to edit your "Jott link" for Sandy. In Jott, click "links" , then click on the "Edit" for your Sandy link. Finally check the "Send SMS Response:" button and save.

As a side note: there is an additional problem in Jott. It turns out that you have to be careful that you don't have yourself listed as a contact. (The same phone number you registered with Jott) Evidently that confuses the service. See this link. (http://jott.com/jott/faq.html#a58)

Still, this solution will have Jott send an "SMS response" for *every* Jott you make to Sandy. Not just the ones where you want her to lookup something.

(Jott help page. http://iwantsandy.com/help/jott)

dandykins replied on May 17, 2008 17:42 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Oooo... I found something cool. At the risk of seeming rude (and I will immediately switch back to using Sandy for this when the feature becomes available), you CAN use a Twitter/Remember the Milk (rememberthemilk.com) combo to have your tagged to-do lists (created/managed on RTM) sent to you via sms. If your list is longer than what will fit in one sms, you'll continue receiving SMS messages until you've received all of the items on your list.

Downside: when Twitter is down, this obviously doesn't work.

Documentation here:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/servic...

Not perfect but does the job. Seriously, this feature is the only reason I opened up an RTM account, and it seems to work pretty well (I'm planning a huge family event, and this feature is a godsend.) I will gladly consolidate to IWantSandy when Sandy offers this feature!

p.s. You can also use Jott/RTM link to add items to lists if you'd prefer, and use the "tag with" voice command to tag the item as you see fit (e.g. "groceries".)

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abathetic replied on May 14, 2008 17:20 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

I have been trying all day to figure out how to get Sandy to text me my grocery list!! I'm glad other people are looking for this feature.

MojoYugen replied on May 01, 2008 19:53 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

I kinda-almost found a workaround for this. I found a free service (http://www.mutube.com/projects/open-e...) that will take an email and forward it as an SMS message to your phone. I then wrote a filter/rule in my email client to forward any message from Sandy with the word "lookup" in it to the service. The problem is all the heading info is more than 160 characters so all you see in the text message is the forwarding information!

What I need is either a email to sms service that has a good formatter built in or an email client with the same.

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dandykins replied on April 24, 2008 20:49 to the question "How do you get Sandy to look up something and send it as a text message?" in I want Sandy:

Hey Kevin,
Yep, I have this question too, and was thinking of experimenting along the same lines that you described. Good to know the results. Hey iwantsandy.com folks--this would be a fantastic feature!
--d

kevin1 replied on April 24, 2008 20:40 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Glad I found this thread. I would also love this feature. Especially the part about using Jott.

Currently it's possible to text Sandy (by using Twitter) and Sandy will respond to the text message (through Twitter). (Note: Twitter must be set up to forward direct messages to your cell phone.)

There are two problems with this. 1) even when Sandy replies through Twitter, she only replies with the *name* of the list. 2) There isn't a way to Jott to Sandy and have her respond to my cell phone (by sms or Twitter). I've tried some extensive workarounds too. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Rael Dornfest replied on April 24, 2008 17:59 to the question "I want Thomas" in I want Sandy:

(Rael attempts to get his $9 back for that iwantsandykins.com domain... ;-)

A comment on the question "I want Thomas" in I want Sandy:

Hmmm, well, Iwantsandykins.com doesn't have quite the same ring to it... ; ) – dandykins, on April 24, 2008 17:55

Rael Dornfest replied on April 24, 2008 17:37 to the question "I want Thomas" in I want Sandy:

I'm afraid Sandy's rather attached to it.

(Rael wonders if iwantdandykins.com is available... ;-)

dandykins replied on April 24, 2008 15:45 to the question "I want Thomas" in I want Sandy:

Hear, hear!

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