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richmintz replied on December 04, 2007 17:25 to the problem "Why am I not recieving Sandy's emails?" in I want Sandy:

I'm experiencing the same thing. Sandy isn't responding to my emails, and I didn't get my normal reminders early this morning.

Sometimes when this happens, Sandy is processing my emails (it's just the replies that are delayed) -- I can tell this from the Web site. But today, the emails are not being processed -- they are probably sitting in Sandy's queue. (She'll probably plow through all the inbound emails at once when she comes back, and I'll get a flurry of replies later in the day.)

richmintz started following the problem "Why am I not recieving Sandy's emails?" in I want Sandy.

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richmintz replied on November 28, 2007 22:27 to the problem "Minor Sandy issues" in I want Sandy:

Sandy doesn't correctly parse addresses that are in this form:

500 N St NW, Washington, DC 20001

richmintz started following the idea "Multiple "Daily Digests"" in I want Sandy.

richmintz replied on November 28, 2007 19:16 to the discussion "Prioritizing todos" in I want Sandy:

c0n0r, what do you mean "have added it to daily digest"?

richmintz started following the question "Has stikkit been abandonded?" in I want Sandy.

richmintz replied on November 28, 2007 15:07 to the problem "Are you down?" in I want Sandy:

Is Sandy's email connection temporarily down?

I'm able to reach Sandy on the Web, but the last email reply I got from Sandy was about 3 AM ET, before going to bed. She didn't email me this morning, and isn't responding to my emails now either (they're apparently stuck in her queue).

richmintz started following the question "How do I set up additional emails for me?" in I want Sandy.

richmintz replied on November 27, 2007 21:31 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

I spoke too soon! Sandy deleted the preexisting tags on all the existing records that were duplicated by incoming VCF records she was importing. I think this is the wrong behavior...

richmintz replied on November 27, 2007 21:17 to the question "Import contacts?" in I want Sandy:

Marshall, a couple comments:

- I just imported a LinkedIn VCF file with about 200 records, and it imported perfectly. Sandy even did the right thing with duplicate records.

- However, that was on the second try. On the first try, Sandy replied with the "I couldn't figure out what you wanted" message. I resubmitted the file in a completely blank email (no subject, no signature, no blank lines), and that did the trick.

richmintz replied on November 27, 2007 21:00 to the problem "Minor Sandy issues" in I want Sandy:

Sandy doesn't parse married-couple names correctly -- that is,

r John and Mary Smith, 1 Babbling Brook, Charlotte, NC

will record a contact for Mary Smith only. I realize that this is tough to get right and I'm not sure if there's a solution that would please everybody -- just wanted to note that I'd bumped into it.

richmintz asked a question in I want Sandy on November 27, 2007 20:50:

Keywords in contacts

Can you publish more documentation about what reserved words cause Sandy to treat a new item as a contact?

I often want to create an empty contact -- a contact record for a person whose contact info isn't handy at the moment. Usually I do this because I want to put the person on a list (via a tag).

I've already discovered that

r Jane Doe, Atlanta, GA @importantpeople

isn't good enough -- Sandy doesn't parse the city and state as an address.

So I've had to resort to

r Jane Doe email foo@foo.com @importantpeople

which creates a contact record with a fake email address -- and that's dumb!

(FYI -- I'm using Sandy to keep track of my Christmas card list this year, which is how this came up.)

richmintz replied on November 27, 2007 20:28 to the problem "Minor Sandy issues" in I want Sandy:

Here's another one:

I normally use Firefox 2.0.0.9 under Mac OS 10.4.11.

In Firefox, in the "edit item" popup form, the text caret is not visible (e.g., in the "tags" field), even when I am editing. This makes the form difficult to use. (In Safari, the text caret is visible. So I'm going to start running Sandy in Safari instead.)

richmintz shared an idea in I want Sandy on November 27, 2007 20:26:

Shortcut to make a todo item dateless?

Very frequently, I have a todo item that's assigned to a date, and I change my mind and want to remove the date (make the item dateless). It would be a huge help if, in the popup "edit item" form, there were a little button or text link called "Remove date" that did this:

- cleared any reminders
- removed the start and end dates

In fact, it could even be a text link alongside "Remove | Forget etc," which would make the operation one click faster.

richmintz replied on November 27, 2007 20:14 to the problem "Deleting or editing tags" in I want Sandy:

hey! when I wasn't paying attention, you released a tag cloud-type feature that displays all the tags I currently have assigned, in a block in the right rail.

Nifty!!!

A (possibly related) thing that I think you changed is this: now, when I display Tags -> Any Tag on the Web site, I see only certain of my items (in particular, contacts are excluded). This is a vast improvement in usability -- it's not entirely intuitive (I don't see all my tagged items, only certain types), but as a heavy user, I can tell you that it "feels" right for my hundreds of contacts not to contaminate my (few, important) todo items when I show items by tag.

Some people will need to be able to "show me my contacts that are tagged with (whatever)..." still, now that there is a tag cloud available, that's probably less urgent, and the current (new) behavior probably is a good compromise.

richmintz replied on November 27, 2007 19:39 to the problem "Minor Sandy issues" in I want Sandy:

Here's another one: when I am editing an item on the Web, and i include something in the "Tags" field but forget the leading @, my entry gets ignored (my tag is stripped out) after I save. Shouldn't the @ be implied, and restored by Sandy?

richmintz reported a problem in I want Sandy on November 27, 2007 19:25:

Tags containing non-alpha characters

Tag names containing certain non-alphanumeric characters, such as @p:home, don't behave properly (for instance, when you click on the hotlinked tag, next to an item, you are told there are no matches). It's probably an HTML encoding issue.

richmintz replied on November 27, 2007 17:11 to the discussion "Nice touches" in I want Sandy:

Come to think of it, this would be helpful -- I would probably use it 20 times a week:

- If I forward an email to Sandy with the instruction "remember emails", Sandy should harvest all the email addresses (including first and last names) from the header of the first message I forwarded (the top of the forward trail) and save them in contact records. If I use the instruction "remember emails all", Sandy should also harvest email addresses from submessages (quoted messages) and the message body.