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ffunky replied on September 30, 2008 20:06 to the question "How do I use relative dates, like "remind me to move my car the first wednesday every month?"" in I want Sandy:

bump! I have several things that happen on this type of format, like the first Wednesday of each month. Any news on that front? Remember the Milk does this kind of format, but I can't stand their service since they can't parse times from the subject.

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kevin1 replied on August 21, 2008 06:05 to the question "How do I use relative dates, like "remind me to move my car the first wednesday every month?"" in I want Sandy:

Some suggestions:

1) ideas on how a new tag should be:

Sandy can already do this:
> remember to buy bread @daily (repeats every day)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @daily (delays until Tuesday, then every day)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @weekly (repeats every Tuesday)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @biweekly (repeats every other Tues)
> remember to buy bread on Tuesday @monthly (repeats on the same day every month.)

> remember to buy bread Tuesday @monthly_dayOfWeek (repeats on the same dayOfWeek every month.)

My idea is that there only be one or two new tags. It would be a different kind of "monthly" tag. It would repeat every month on the same day of the week. The "2nd Tuesday" or "3rd Sunday" of the month don't need to be specified in the tag. The dayOfWeek and the "2nd" or "3rd" in the month are automatically determined by Sandy depending on when the start date is.

(Although the name @monthly_dayOfWeek is terrible, we should come up with a better one. Maybe @monthly_weekly?)

2) also need to count down from the LAST day of the month.

To do it properly, the FIRST Tuesday of the month is only half of the problem. There's also the LAST Tuesday of the month, and the second to last, and the third to last.

We need to be able to specify if Sandy should consider the repeating event starting on Tuesday to repeat on the THIRD Tuesday of the month, or the SECOND TO LAST Tuesday of the month.

> remember to buy bread Tuesday @monthly_dayOfWeek_reverse

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Stephen replied on July 30, 2008 20:02 to the question "How do I use relative dates, like "remind me to move my car the first wednesday every month?"" in I want Sandy:

I just want to add my vote for this feature.. Meetings are scheduled like this. @firstmonday type tagging would be great

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Elizabeth Wiley replied on June 26, 2008 21:10 to the question "How do I use relative dates, like "remind me to move my car the first wednesday every month?"" in I want Sandy:

Even if it was just manually defined terms for each of @firstsunday .... @fifthsaturday, that would be fantastic! Entering these dates manually is for the birds.

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Andy replied on June 14, 2008 08:15 to the question "How do I use relative dates, like "remind me to move my car the first wednesday every month?"" in I want Sandy:

Seems like this thread has been abandoned so I'll just add a renewed plea for this essential feature. I see the original question was posted seven months ago, do any of you employee folks know if it's due to be added any time soon? Sandy would be much more useful if she could do this! Thanks

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