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I'd like to see this, or an iCal file import feature added into Sandy.

Second Wednesday, last Wednesday and so on - This is a must-have! ...please. – Tom, on July 21, 2008 17:21

I support this idea, would make it really easy to pick up sandy.

What I ended up doing is opening the event as Sandy stores it and downloading the calendar to iCal, where I can apply an end date and add a location (two hints/RFEs for later releases there). Not sure how to sync it back up to Sandy's magic book, though.

I'm also looking for a solution to "remind me to do X for the next 6 fridays" without having to remind Sandy when it's done.

If you could automatically tag items that come in via the feed, so that you could have them pre-sorted. Ie. i subscribe to a google calendar of my local park activities, i could have them tagged @park or @local or some such.

Even without this, it would be a great feature.

Nothing to add but YES!!!!!

Importing calendar feeds and RSS feeds would rock.

Adding this as a feature would make Sandy SO much more useful I don't even have the vocabulary to describe it at this late hour. I can't wait until this is implemented.

Greg,
Try update #1 @archive
I think the archive flag keeps the item off Daily Digests.

I'm new to Sandy, but I'd like to use it for GTD. I read Greg's message, but it seems to me there might be a better way to do it. Can't we use the new list feature to do something a little better? It would be really great if Sandy could work with a sequential todo list. Can this be done?

> Remember fix-faucet @project @todo @sequential
> * determine replacement part size @home
> * visit Home Depot and get replacement part @errands
> * fix the faucet between noon and 2 pm someday when the bathroom isn't in use.

Note that I can't use the new "+" at the end of the first line, because that would break up the list into separate little tasks. I wouldn't have a "project" at all, just a bunch of tasks all marked todo at the same time.

I imagine that Sandy would have to be able to tag a todo item with a link or reference number back to the project note (the sequential todo list). When the todo was marked as @done, Sandy would follow the link back to the project note and then add the next action in the list as a todo item.

This is basically the same idea that Greg was talking about, but it would be automated. When you marked a todo @done, you wouldn't have to manually look to see if the todo was part of a project (i.e. marked with the @project tag or some unique project name). You wouldn't have to then look up the project note, then manually add the next item from the project list as a new todo. You also have to be careful to remember to add a tag to the new todo that matches the project. (In order to mark the new todo as part of the same project.) So that when that task is finished you can find the project note and schedule the next task.

It seems to me that is what Sandy (and computers in general) are for. Automating repetitive tasks.

I used to have Sandy as my task manager in a GTD setup. I'd tag everything I needed to do (next actions) with @todo and @[context], where context was one of the usual list (@office, @home, @errands, etc.). Since they were all todos, the daily digest automatically excludes completed items. It also included mis-tagged items since all my todos were in there by default.

I did NOT use Sandy to keep track of projects or future actions, but I did use her an an inbox. (@inbox tag) I also kept a @current tag which also appeared in my daily digest. I just used that for non-todo items that I wanted to keep in front of me for whatever reason.

I also did not bother having any sort of formal link between Sandy's tasks and my projects. While an @[project] tag makes perfect sense, I have found that with regular review, I can easily keep in my head which tasks are for which project, and which have no next action. (In some ways, not having that "hard" link helps motivate me to stay on track) It's also just one more tag to remember and get perfect every time (Did I call it "@faucet" or "@fix faucet" or "@fix upstairs faucet?")

With Sandy's new List feature, keeping projects in there seems more usable, but each item in the list is just that, an item in a list. I'm not sure that's the best way to handle it.

This worked quite well for me, but if you're a fan of a single, consolidated, solution, you'll want to look elsewhere. Unless you have something databasey, you're not going to get any satisfactory automation to link projects with actions and intelligently define next actions.

Unfortunately, while you can do this on the web site by using the advanced filters, Sandy doesn't give you that much control over the Daily Digest. One of the suggestions I've made is to allow such control to make daily digest a complete dashboard for many uses.