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jrk marked one of Rael Dornfest's replies in I want Sandy as useful. Rael Dornfest replied to the question "How do I create todos or appointments w/o reminders?".

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jrk replied on April 06, 2008 19:43 to the idea "tracking packages" in I want Sandy:

This is a surprisingly insightful and clever idea. In one respect it's a one-off feature that's somewhat orthogonal to the rest of what Sandy does, but in practice I think it's a *brilliant* one-off feature that fits particularly well into both the way you interact with Sandy (email requests and reminders/updates, iCal/RSS subscriptions, and explicit email queries) and the virtual assistant metaphor. Potentially a very useful and very natural/intuitive addition.

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jrk replied on April 06, 2008 19:39 to the idea "The verb Schedule: creating vs. reminding" in I want Sandy:

I disagree. While the core point is valid that you may use both "schedule" (as a noun) and "remind/remember" together fairly naturally, I think "remind me" and "remember" are relatively synonymous in this sort of usage -- one is addressing "Sandy" as a person, the other is more addressing yourself, but the distinction is really artificial and would be hard for untrained users to understand or intuit. The idea of separating reminders from calendar/schedule items is still useful, though, and I think the "schedule" verb is natural and intuitive. There are already plenty of cases of ambiguous parses even in the current system, and the solution is always just to be at least slightly careful, and to use quotes when you're doing things that are clearly confusing like using a date/time string in the reminder text, itself.

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jrk reported a problem in I want Sandy on April 06, 2008 19:35:

Date parsing treats current weekday as today, not +1w

To reproduce: create reminder using current weekday as date string (e.g. "remind me sunday afternoon to do X" on sunday afternoon)

Expected behavior: item is created for the NEXT sunday afternoon, 1 week from today

Observed behavior: item is created for THIS afternoon, potentially even in the past (just now, at 3:32pm in my time zone, "sunday afternoon" was interpreted as 3pm today, 32 minutes in the past).

jrk marked one of Rael Dornfest's replies in I want Sandy as useful. Rael Dornfest replied to the question "How do I get Sandy to remind me to do something that includes a date in it?". jrk and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

jrk replied on February 26, 2008 01:48 to the question "can you request a reminder earlier than 15 min? Like 2 hr before?" in I want Sandy:

I would *really* like to see this feature, too.

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