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Yeraze replied on September 16, 2008 13:49 to the question "Two way syncing with Google Calendar" in I want Sandy:

I have the same problem korym. For some reason, with repeating events if you "forget" one instance of it, google calendar keeps showing it. I've just learned to rely more heavily on the Daily Digests, and lookups.

Sync with google calendar is a hot-button item around here, and i'm sure Rael is working on something.

korym replied on September 15, 2008 12:24 to the question "Two way syncing with Google Calendar" in I want Sandy:

Question about syncing: Is there a way for Google Calendar to reflect Sandy's updates? I obviously make quite a few changes on Sandy but when I look at them on Google Calendar, they're not updated. Tasks I've checked off on Sandy will continue to reside on Google Calendar. Just curious. Thx!

mdy replied on July 27, 2008 16:53 to the problem "My new phone number won't verify...HELP!" in Twitter:

Hello. Twitter has an FAQ page for people who have trouble verifying their phones. Kindly see: I can't verify my phone.

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 21:24 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

got it... you were close on the phone # its actually the address data in gmail exports out as

LABEL;TYPE=HOME=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:"a bunch of text for address"

Doesn't look like sandy can handle this input... I don't know if its non standard, I'm guessing the fault is on Sandy's side.

... now what I don't understand is my initial failures with just the two vcard ID"s. Those shouldn't have failed and in fact if I import that same file now Sandy accepts them!

Yeraze replied on July 03, 2008 18:12 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

hrm.. None of mine had phone-numbers.. If you remove the 2 phone numbers from the first contact and then send it to her.. Does it work?

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 18:01 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

im XP32/Pro and FF3... sandy will accept a single entry from me but not more. From the above post example i can do either entry but not bot together in a vcf file.

alone works

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:someuser
N:last,first;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:someuser@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=HOME:someuser@cox.net
TEL;TYPE=HOME:555 555 5555
TEL;TYPE=CELL:555 555 5555
END:VCARD

alone works

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:another user
N:last1;first1;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:anotheruser@cox.net
END:VCARD

does not work

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:someuser
N:last,first;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:someuser@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=HOME:someuser@cox.net
TEL;TYPE=HOME:555 555 5555
TEL;TYPE=CELL:555 555 5555
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:another user
N:last1;first1;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:anotheruser@cox.net
END:VCARD

I tried a couple of different entries and doesn't look like sandy want's to parse more than one... format doesn't seem to be an issue just multiple vcards in the file.

Yeraze replied on July 03, 2008 17:34 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

I'm running windows XP64, using FireFox3.. My vcard looks like this (sanitized):

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:Bob Jones
N:Jones;Bob;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:bobjones@hotmail.com
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:Jane Jones
N:Jones;Jane;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:janejones@comcast.net
END:VCARD

I simply attached it to an email to sandy (via gmail), with no subject or body (Aside my from sig). During the export, I chose "vCard" format, and saved it as "contacts(4).vcf".

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 17:22 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

Whats your platform? i'm running xp and saving the .vcf to local hdd and then sending it to sandy as an attachment. Did you put anything in the subject or body?

I just did my 'most contacted' which is 20 entries and it failed. Sandy replied "I got your email but couldn't find anything you asked me to do. Let's see if we can quickly remedy that:...."

here is a snip from the first two entries... in my .vcf (modified user info)
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:someuser
N:last,first;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:someuser@gmail.com
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=HOME:someuser@cox.net
TEL;TYPE=HOME:555 555 5555
TEL;TYPE=CELL:555 555 5555
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:another user
N:last1;first1;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:anotheruser@cox.net
END:VCARD
....18 more entries

Yeraze replied on July 03, 2008 16:12 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

I just exported 6 contacts into a vCard file from GoogleMail, and then forwarded it to Sandy, and she got all 6 contacts with no problems.

bloftin replied on July 03, 2008 15:43 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

Looks like this 'feature' is remains entirely broken. I have tried to export my gmail contacts and import them into Sandy with an attached csv and vCard with no joy.

I don't want to use Tracy's method as I believe it strips all of the meta.

Any idea on when this will be working?

Kelbert replied on June 07, 2008 07:13 to the problem "My new phone number won't verify...HELP!" in Twitter:

I'm Kelbert. Good thing Twitter is free or I'd be really annoyed by the lack of response from support about this topic.

dvrcthewrld shared an idea in I want Sandy on June 02, 2008 04:30:

Postpone button for todo items.

I would like a button to postpone items on my todo list on the iwantsandy site. Perhaps that had a dialog asking how long to postpone or perhaps a duration set in preferences. I'd probably do 24hrs.

Brian replied on May 31, 2008 10:58 to the question "Two way syncing with Google Calendar" in I want Sandy:

The feed allows you to subscribe to the sandy calender to _view_ it in iCal, gCal, etc. But you cannot _update_ sandy via iCal, gCal, etc. Hence the _two_ way sync, the feed is only one way.

Rael Dornfest replied on May 30, 2008 22:36 to the question "Two way syncing with Google Calendar" in I want Sandy:

Hi Stsanford!

You can certainly do what you describe above easily by subscribing to Sandy's calendar of things she is handling for you from Google Calendar. Take a gander at http://iwantsandy.com/help/feeds#cale... .

—R

dvrcthewrld replied on May 30, 2008 03:18 to the problem "My new phone number won't verify...HELP!" in Twitter:

Wow, this makes me eager to just sit an wait for nothing to happen.

stsanford replied on May 27, 2008 14:10 to the question "Two way syncing with Google Calendar" in I want Sandy:

that would be terrific!
I'm a single-man-band consultant, and having the ability to cal into Jott and have Sandy appoint my schedule while I'm driving would certainly save me from more near-misses ;-) (Just kidding, I NEVER text and drive)

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TracyJane replied on April 15, 2008 21:48 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

I just tried this and it WORKED, requires basic knowledge of Excel and MS Word. The idea is to use a little conversion magic to create a text file with each contact on a separate line and word REMEMBER in front of it and paste that into email for Sandy. There are probably any number of ways to do that...here's what I did: Make a CSV file for your contacts (export from wherever they are), open the CSV file in Excel, add a column to the front and fill it down with "REMEMBER" then select the whole thing, copy/paste into MS Word...replace tabs with spaces (use CTRL-H and enter ^t as symbol to represent tab, and just put a space in the spot for what to replace with)....Once that is done you'll have a document with REMEMBER and each contact info on a separate line. Then copy that whole thing and paste into email, send to Sandy. I imported about 300 contacts and there were about 6 with errors but that's not too bad!
Good luck.