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bigfan replied on August 29, 2008 01:20 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Yes, ReQall will send multiple texts.

Unfortunately, it is limited to only one shopping list. RTM is superior in this respect. However, if all you need is the one, ReQuall is much easier and faster to set up than RTM/Twitter.

Personally, after Jott and Sandy (both of which I love dearly), I was just exhausted with setting up and learning new systems and so I liked ReQuall because it met my needs without any tweaking and no learning curve. However, GTD followers and others who rely extensively on multiple lists would greatly benefit from the RTM/Twitter combo!

dandykins replied on August 28, 2008 17:23 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Yeraze,

Combining Remember the Milk/Twitter, a person can use their cell phone to direct message Remember the Milk on Twitter, and RTM sends a particular list from one's RTM account (you have to add RTM as a friend on your Twitter account, and RTM on Twitter has to know what RTM.com account you have, but you get the picture.) If the characters in the text message exceed Twitter's limit, RTM just sends multiple text messages until the message is complete.

I don't have experience with ReQall yet, but I'd imagine this is how it would work there too.

Yeraze replied on August 28, 2008 17:03 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Complete replies via SMS is tricky because SMS (like twitter) has a very restrictive character limit.

How was ReQall accomplish it? Multiple text messages?

bigfan replied on August 27, 2008 22:08 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Sandy and use it extensively in through Jott. That said, there is a free outside source solution. I use reQall specifically, and only, for SMS access to my shopping list.

"With reQall’s organizing and sharing capabilities, the family shopping has never been easier. Because reQall recognizes key words like "buy," it can put those items right on your shopping list.

Enter “buy milk” and reQall knows to put it on your shopping list.
Want to share the shopping with your spouse? Just enter, “Tell John to buy shoes for the kids,” and it will go on his shopping list.

Even better, this memory tool connects it all! So you never have to stand in the middle of the grocery store and realize “My shopping list is on the frig!” Just call reQall on your cell phone and have reQall play your shopping list or even better, send it to you in a text message. "

bigfan replied on August 27, 2008 21:41 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Complete lookup replies via SMS is really a must. Please, please, please!?

Tracey R. replied on August 24, 2008 19:14 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

Exactly. This issue is why reQall is becoming a pain to set up to work with Sandy--they both have the very same issue.

webstarts replied on August 01, 2008 16:15 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

I just want to echo the thread and say I could be much more productive if Sandy would allow me to remind my friends without them having to have an IWantSandy.com account and without having to CC them.

Quoting David from above...

"I agree with the above - I should be able to add a nickname to a friend, (uniquely identifiable), and be able to say "Remind Johnny to pick up milk at 10pm tonite".

Thank you

Jared Rimer replied on June 15, 2008 21:32 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

I hear what you mean.

ar replied on June 15, 2008 21:08 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

Huh, I have three problems with "remind us":

a) you have to include the person who should be reminded in your email recipients - this is ok for emails, but I contact Sandy a lot via Twitter and Jott, where I cannot include any other recipients

b) we _both_ get the reminder, what if I only want to schedule something for my friends?

c) it increases email noise by having to CC my friends to set a reminder for them

That's why I really want to see the "Remind [friend's name] to do this and that" feature.

It's also not clear to me how I can use "remind us" to share notes and lists.

Jared Rimer replied on June 15, 2008 21:03 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

I tried remind us, and that seemed to do it, but helpers, this is not clear? Can you clarify, or do i need to look up a phone number to get someone on the phone since I've sent E-mails about this and this has not been answered yet?

ar replied on June 15, 2008 20:44 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

I am really, really looking for a solution to this as well...

I actually cannot really believe this isn't available yet. Especially since the guide book proudly states "add stuff to each other's calendars (the dentist appointment)" - which apparently is _not_ at all easily done. :/

Rael Dornfest replied on June 11, 2008 05:23 to the problem "I can't get recurring tags (like @weekly) to work for me" in I want Sandy:

Hi Kate,

I'm sorry I managed to overlook this for so long.

I'm not sure why that was plaguing you but am glad you have those items recurring as they should now.

If you do run into it again, please do drop us a line at help@iwantsandy.com.

Again, I apologize for the lack of reply.

Kate replied on June 10, 2008 04:01 to the problem "I can't get recurring tags (like @weekly) to work for me" in I want Sandy:

Well, it seems like nobody looked into this so I eventually figured out a workaround (in case someone stumbles on this question).

The items that were not recurring properly were created before Sandy changed the way recurrence is handled. These older items had a @weekly tag, but Sandy didn't consider them "recurring" under the new system. There was nothing I could change on the items to make them work, so what worked in the end was to delete them entirely and create new identical ones. Now they're recurring as they should.

kevin1 replied on May 29, 2008 21:24 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

I asked Rael and he said that Jott already had this feature. I wasn't sure, so I checked it out again.

Initially I tried setting Jott so that it sends "confirmation text messages". (http://jott.com/settings_phone.aspx) This didn't do what I wanted though..

The correct thing to do is to edit your "Jott link" for Sandy. In Jott, click "links" , then click on the "Edit" for your Sandy link. Finally check the "Send SMS Response:" button and save.

As a side note: there is an additional problem in Jott. It turns out that you have to be careful that you don't have yourself listed as a contact. (The same phone number you registered with Jott) Evidently that confuses the service. See this link. (http://jott.com/jott/faq.html#a58)

Still, this solution will have Jott send an "SMS response" for *every* Jott you make to Sandy. Not just the ones where you want her to lookup something.

(Jott help page. http://iwantsandy.com/help/jott)

dandykins replied on May 17, 2008 17:42 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

Oooo... I found something cool. At the risk of seeming rude (and I will immediately switch back to using Sandy for this when the feature becomes available), you CAN use a Twitter/Remember the Milk (rememberthemilk.com) combo to have your tagged to-do lists (created/managed on RTM) sent to you via sms. If your list is longer than what will fit in one sms, you'll continue receiving SMS messages until you've received all of the items on your list.

Downside: when Twitter is down, this obviously doesn't work.

Documentation here:
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/servic...

Not perfect but does the job. Seriously, this feature is the only reason I opened up an RTM account, and it seems to work pretty well (I'm planning a huge family event, and this feature is a godsend.) I will gladly consolidate to IWantSandy when Sandy offers this feature!

p.s. You can also use Jott/RTM link to add items to lists if you'd prefer, and use the "tag with" voice command to tag the item as you see fit (e.g. "groceries".)

abathetic replied on May 14, 2008 17:20 to the question "I'd like to know if Sandy can send an SMS of the lookup results." in I want Sandy:

I have been trying all day to figure out how to get Sandy to text me my grocery list!! I'm glad other people are looking for this feature.

Jared Rimer replied on May 07, 2008 21:28 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

I hear you there, but they haven't responded as of yet, and I hope they will read this soon. This needs to be addressed, as I don't want to have to have people sign up for a few things like phone call reminders etc. this is not that complicated I would think. But programming can be tricky, I do HTML and thats as far as I want to have it.

David replied on May 07, 2008 21:13 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

"Remind us" is ok if you're emailing, but if I use Jott and call in a quick note, there is no "us" involved, so it's only a half-solution. This would also be solved by assigning nicknames to friends and referencing the nicknames.

Hope they add it! Can't be hard, really... it's just another noun to parse.

Jared Rimer replied on May 07, 2008 21:11 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

Well, I've asked I want sandy to look at this amongst other topics I've posted and they have yet to reply. I hope they will, cause there is now a reply to make this simpler. What if you don't want them to become a member or something just to get a reminder to them. there's got to be a way somehow.

David Szego replied on May 07, 2008 21:01 to the question "How do I send a reminder to a friend" in I want Sandy:

I agree with the above - I should be able to add a nickname to a friend, (uniquely identifiable), and be able to say "Remind Johnny to pick up milk at 10pm tonite".

This is CRITICAL for family, team and GTD use.