J-Mac's dashboard

It has happened on several occasions. And if you look around here you will see that their rep keeps saying they are working on it but after a year and more I don’t think they really care. To claim they have not yet replicated this issue is ludicrous. A real software developer would never allow the same serious bug - that apparently destroys data - to be present in multiple successive versions. I don't know what that makes Foxmarks...

Jim

I agree with mathys about Toodledo. Excellent for task/to-do management, great reminder functions, and flexible emailing of tasks to it. The developer is very active daily in his forum and responds quickly to feature suggestions and requests, though he does keep a priority list and sticks to it as long as the top items on it were all requested by the most members.

Doesn’t do what Sandy does but it is a good start to at least manage your to-do's and reminders.

Jim

Oh well... It was kinda fun while it lasted. Just another reinforcement of my tenet to NOT rely on any free applications. This is why I purchase my software!

Thanks Rael.

Jim

That "13 cents a day to pay for Jott" is a sunk cost whether you use Jott each of those days or not. And it totals up to almost $50 a year. Plus, that only gets you 15 second Jotts. I find that if I try to get what I want to get to Sandy into a 15 second Jott, the transcription is unreadable, senseless. And if you want to have 30 seconds per Jott message, which you will most likely need in order to spell out the words that Jott chokes on, you'll be paying about $150 per year!

Nah - not me!

Hi Rael.

I primarily use either Gmail or Fastmail's web mail interface. Neither are very unique or unusual.

Just to update you, I received even more odd reminders from Sandy today, and none are supposed to be active - even according to my Sandy web page.. Seems like whatever I direct her to do she still is intent on reminding me. Can't be my PC, I don't think, as I just reinstalled Windows this past weekend. So this is effectively a "new" machine, OS-wise.

For now I have used "Forget" on all items on my Sandy page. I need to slow down the replies.

Thanks for anything you can do to help.

Rael, thank you for your reply. Please see my reply to norbiq above for an example. This is occurring daily in one form or another.

Obviously I've been a little frustrated!

norbiq - I've about memorized the darn thing. But Sandy is apparently a lot like my first wife and doesn't pay attention at all. I received a reminder tonight about a ToDo for an event that occurred at 9 am this morning. Now the event is past, correct? But Sandy was telling me she would remind me about it again tomorrow morning - and I don't really feel I should have to act on an event in the past.

But I followed the guide and replied with the following exactly:

"Sandy, u #1 @done"

That should mark it as done, correct? (This reminder email referred to the event as "#1", and it was the only event contained in that email from Sandy).

Two minutes later I received an email from Sandy saying that she has updated an event that did not exist - at least I never created it. It is worded:

Sandy [iwantsandy.com

* Scheduled for Thu, 2/14/2008 1:15pm

Did Sandy create that herself? Now that is labeled #1, and the event I was replying about, the one scheduled for this morning that I updated as @done is shown on the website as NOT having the @done tag and is active.

So why & how did Sandy create a new event based on my update of a reminder from her for an existing event? Why wasn't the event, the only one in that email and numbered as #1, updated with the @done tag? My reply email is worded exactly as shown in the Guide, isn't it? Starts with "Sandy", uses the "u" shortcut for "Update", then one space, then #1, then the tag "@done".

She's been doing this for a month and a half now and it is causing more work to try and fix then I bargained for.

A reply to my own Problem: Marking an event/todo/ or whatever would be a lot easier if I could just reply to a received reminder or digest with a command to mark it as Done. As it is now I must click on the link for that item, which opens the browser on my Blackberry, then Login to I Want Sandy - which is a pain on a Blackberry because either the device or the site (not sure which) does not remember the login status, and then mark it as Done.

Thanks!

Alex,

Thank you for that reply. Doesn't have much to do with days of the week, nor with Sandy, though it IS making me hungry; and.. Hmm.. I wonder if Sandy would want to go out and enjoy a late dinner with me.....

I agree! And I don't think that my "part of the world" should have any bearing on this. I'm in the USA and the "normal" for the USA is that Sunday is the start of the week. I have never understood this myself. The work week here is from Monday through Friday, with Saturday and Sunday referred to as "the weekend". That being the case, Monday should always be the first day of the week, and the following Sunday should be the last day. While I am certain that I will never be able to change the perception by many in the USA that have the warped belief that Sunday is somehow the start of the week, the ability to set the week starting day by the user is an important concept IMO>

Thanks!