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kevin1 replied on August 08, 2008 20:47 to the idea "Calendar view of events on start page" in I want Sandy:

To get a calendar view, use a calendar program like Google Calendar, Outlook, iCal, etc, and have it subscribe to the the calendar feed from Sandy. (See http://iwantsandy.com/help/feeds and http://iwantsandy.com/settings#calend... to turn on your private iCalendar feed.)

It is some trouble to update Sandy events through a calendar program. The current calendar feed is read-only. The work around is that you have to click on the event to get to the details, and then you need to click again on one of the links inside the event. You will be directed to Sandy's website for that event, and you can make a change to it there.

The problem seems to be that not all calendar programs work the same. Google Calendar is especially non-standard and they're having a tough time with it.
i understand that Google Calendar was updated just the other week with support for CalDAV, so maybe now the iwantsandy people they can get Sandy working with gcal in the next month or so. Or maybe not.

Oh, and even if Google Calendar's behavior does get sorted out, gcal still doesn't have a task list. So you still won't be able to see your task list displayed in Google Calendar, even if you can use gcal to update events.

kevin1 replied on August 08, 2008 13:45 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:

This feature was added in a recent update. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

You can now use a @reminder tag to tell Sandy when you want to be reminded. After the @reminder tag, put the date you want to be reminded. The date can be fixed (like June 20) or it can be relative to the date you want to remember. (use the word "before")

You can send a message to Sandy like this:
> Remind me that my father's birthday is on April 20th, @reminder three days before.

tylermenezes replied on August 03, 2008 21:32 to the idea "Don't count URL length in web UI before it gets shortened towards 140 character limit" in Twitter:

That would be really hard to do in Javascript, but it's probably still possible. Personally, I think it shouldn't disable the submit button at all. It can try to submit using AJAX, then if it's too long, throw an error.

MMartin replied on August 02, 2008 06:27 to the question "how do I cancel my account?" in Tumblr:

Cool! I always thought it was impossible to delete a Tumblr account.

KB_man replied on July 22, 2008 19:12 to the idea "Don't count URL length in web UI before it gets shortened towards 140 character limit" in Twitter:

Great Idea!!!

danielo replied on July 22, 2008 18:57 to the idea "Don't count URL length in web UI before it gets shortened towards 140 character limit" in Twitter:

YES YES YES. This is a great idea, and a VERY annoying problem with Twittter.

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Elizabeth Wiley replied on June 26, 2008 21:13 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:

how about:

r dad's birthday july 4
*n july 1 at 11:00

or something like that? or @n...

you could even require that it be a date instead of 3 days from now or that kind of thing.

wewhoeat replied on May 11, 2008 08:27 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:

has this functionality been added yet? One thing I'm doing is using sandy to remind me about a TV show that's coming up so that I can Tivo it. I can't tivo it until 2weeks before air time so I'd like to set a reminder for that show time then put a handy relative offset like 7 days before on it. thanks.

Uvatar replied on March 01, 2008 20:13 to the question "how do I cancel my account?" in Tumblr:

You can delete your account using the Delete Account page at:

http://www.tumblr.com/account/delete

jsummers replied on February 28, 2008 16:19 to the idea "Calendar view of events on start page" in I want Sandy:

The list of dates is ok I guess. Nothing like looking at a calender view. It helps me a lot. I have been using google cal and have the sandy feed but it is to much work to update things on sandys feed.

I would love to have a cal view that allows me to look at a normal cal view and have a list next to it of todo's or whatever.

topherchris replied on February 27, 2008 18:36 to the question "how do I cancel my account?" in Tumblr:

Killing all the posts with engtech's technique is a great option. The only other thing that I'd recommend is to just replace your template with either a blank page or (even better) something that forwards the user to another website.

engtech replied on February 26, 2008 04:31 to the question "how do I cancel my account?" in Tumblr:

I wrote a program to delete your account because I was in the same boat. You can download it here:

http://internetducttape.com/2008/02/2...

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PolarLava replied on February 22, 2008 03:33 to the idea "Calendar view of events on start page" in I want Sandy:

I too would so like to see a calendar view.

danielo reported a problem in I want Sandy on February 22, 2008 03:12:

Two attempts to show calendar fail.

I tried adding Sandy's iCal feed to my Netvibes page, which allows you to embed any iCal. None of my items from Sandy showed up. I tried using Sandy's new Google Calendar feature -- same thing: seems to add just fine, but is void of all events/items.

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Rael Dornfest replied on January 15, 2008 06:09 to the problem "Sandy not parsing Jott messages." in I want Sandy:

Howdy,

I chatted with the Jott folk today and this issue should be resolved very shortly. I expect at that point for Sandy to be receiving even partial transcriptions and so be able to at least give you more to go on.

It's unfortunate that it seemed for a moment that Sandy was not comprehending something that was within her realm, but I'm glad to have learned that the confusion stemmed from your receiving email with partial transcription while Sandy received only "Please listen".

So, all's well that ends well and I look forward to the fix.

—R