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Dial2Do works quite well as a Jott replacement.

It does have a couple of rough edges. First, it doesn't transcribe "tag with" as "@" for use with Sandy. Second, it only seems to be capable of having one of any type of account. (Only one Wordpress blog, only one Blogger account, only one calendar, email, etc. etc.) They say they're working on it though.

This already happens. Sandy does remove todo items that get tagged as @done.

There's just a delay. Somewhere around 3 hours to a full day.

The problem that people always bring up is that the calendar feed (and todo items) are read only. You can't edit an event (mark a todo as @done) through the calendar program. (i.e. iCal, Google Calendar, Windows Calendar 2007, 30boxes, etc.) Instead of editing the event through the calendar program, each Sandy event contains several links that point to the iwantsandy website. To edit an item, you have to click on one of these links and be redirected to the website.

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.

Here's an idea for how to do the "Third Sunday of the month". There's only one event type needed for all those possible configurations. (First Sunday, Second Tuesday, Second to last Friday, etc.) http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy... – kevin1, on October 25, 2008 07:07

So really what you want is to be able to set up a set of rules for how Sandy should treat incoming email.

Currently Sandy rejects all incoming mail that doesn't have the "From:" field set to either your primary or secondary address. Google, when forwarding email, doesn't change the "From:" field, so it would still be <NoReply@powercompany.com> So even if you forwarded the bill, through gmail, from the power company to Sandy, right now Sandy would reject the email.

So, how I see it, this idea consists of 3 parts.

1) Sandy would need to have a list of email addresses that you want her to receive email from. (i.e a list of "authorized email addresses" or "friends")

2) Sandy would need to have an "email filter". A "rule", a way to specify a certain subset of incoming emails. (something like a Google mail filter)

3) Sandy would need to allow users to create an "action" to go along with the email filter. (i.e. when Sandy receives an email from <NoReply@powercompany.com> then send out a reminder in 5 days.)

See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Actually, all the current repeating events (and their special tags) are a hack. They're not really necessary if the proper repeating event type were created. This single event type would be more flexible, and would fix the problem that Alexandra bought up.

All current repeating events are really the same repeating event type. It's just made more confusing because they all use "special" tags. The one single event type would have a field where it would be specified how often to repeat the event. (Every x years, and x months, and x days, and x hours.)

With the single repeating event type you could schedule an event to repeat every 4 hours. Or every 18 months. Or every 4 months and 3 days, or every 28 days, etc, etc, etc. It would be really easy to specify the repeat interval on the web site too. The only hard part is figuring out how to specify the repeat interval by email.

Sandy, remember to take out the trash Thursday night @repeat weekly.
Sandy, remember to buy new toothbrushes today @repeat every 3 months.

The one recurring event type that I talk about here is not the *only* recurring event type, Like korym mentions, how to get Sandy to repeat an event on the third Sunday of the month, that can't fit into the formula above. Because it's not a definite amount of time. It varies depending on the month. Some months it would be every 4 weeks, some months it would be every 5 weeks. So you would really have to do something special for that.

Note that I'm not criticizing Rael here. He's done a good job on Sandy and she's very useful. But the repeating events could still be cleaned up a little. In particular, I think that the current repeating event special tags (i.e. @weekly) should only work in email, maybe only when creating the event. After that, it really isn't necessary to keep things "tagged" with @weekly, etc.

Here's a discussion related to this one. About searching for items without any tags.

http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

This is a great idea. It's one of the basic search criteria that Sandy is missing. The NOT search.

I wrote an extensive idea for how sandy could do searches. Look at it here http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

My idea was to use a special symbol (~) to specify that we want the results to exclude items with that criteria.

My idea was to do a combined NOT search, search for all items tagged with one tag but NOT another

1) Here's an example: How to search for all items that are NOT tagged with todo.

http://iwantsandy.com/list?tags=~todo

2) Here's the NOT search idea used in conjunction with a text search. The example searches for all items that contain the text "todo" but that are not *tagged* as todo. (For when I use Dial2do and it inserts "tag with todo" instead of actually tagging the item "@todo".)

http://iwantsandy.com/list?text=todo&...

3) Here's an example of the idea being used along with a regular tag search. This uses another one of my ideas to perform and AND search (use of +). This example searches for all items tagged with "work" AND that are NOT tagged with "todo"

http://iwantsandy.com/list?tags=work+...

4) I was thinking of how to answer the question that was asked. How to do an empty search. (To search for all items without ANY tags.) The obvious answer is to leave the "tags=" search empty. But that doesn't currently work. Maybe a special word could be used. "none" or "undefined". Any other ideas?

http://iwantsandy.com/list?tags=
http://iwantsandy.com/list?tags=none
http://iwantsandy.com/list?tags=undef...

I think that the Utils.openUrlInBrowser function should return a pointer to the window or tab used to display the url. (choose one or the other)

First, if the function returned a tab, it would be easy enough for the caller to get the document from the tab. (tab.document, the_window.activeTab.document) Second, the functions used inside openUrlInBrowser already return a pointer to a window or a tab. The return values simply aren't being used.

There would need to be only a couple changes made to the Utils.openUrlInBrowser function. The functions used internally would have to have their return values examined.

I'm not an expert, but I imagine something like this:
return_tab = browser.loadOneTab(...);
browserWindow.loadURI(...); return_tab = browserWindow.activeTab;
var newWindow = window.openDialog(...); return_tab = newWindow.activeTab;
return return_tab;

Whether you use Apple's iCal or Windows Calendar 2007, the data feed from Sandy is the same. http://iwantsandy.com/xxxxx/list.ics (Where xxxx is your personal string of random letters.)

As far as I understand, the calendar feed from Sandy only contains those todos with a specific date. Todos without a date are filtered out. This is because Microsoft Outlook 2003 crashes when the *.ics feed has undated todo items in it.

Apple's iCal displays todo items in a little task list (if I understand correctly). This task list area is capable of displaying todos with and without a date. However, the calendar feed doesn't have any todos without a date, so this part of the functionality isn't used. Windows Calendar 2007 and Google Calendar do not have a separate task list, so they can only display todos that have a date. They add it to the calendar on the day it is scheduled.

The RSS feeds from Sandy are different. They don't filter out todos without dates. However, the RSS feed has a limited number of items in it. (about 25)

(I don't know what "Apple Mail" is. Is it iCal or is it a program that reads email or RSS feeds?)

I'm trying to eliminate having to go to a couple websites and manually enter in my information and use the "submit" button. I'm trying to mimic the "submit" on each site by writing an Ubiquity script for each site. One site's form uses a GET and the other one uses a POST. My Ubiquity scripts use jQuery to do the GET and POST.

The websites I'm trying to mimic do two things 1) a search, and 2) submit information to a website. In both instances, the website returns an html document. I'm just confused how to parse or display the resulting document.

I got the scripts to work. At least, my data is submitted to the POST site correctly. I confirmed that it got the information by looking at it later on the site. I just can't display the html page that results from the POST. The search site (using GET) returns html code too. Again, I don't know how to look at it yet.

When I do it normally and use the "submit" button on either site, in both cases, it looks like a new url is generated by the server. At least, the browser *seems to be* redirected to a different url. However, when I do it using jQuery I receive a full html document in response tot he HTTP request. So I'm confused. Again, I don't know how to parse the HTTP response or display it.

The site that I'm trying to search doesn't have an easy to use search url. I can't do a search by encoding the url. When I do it normally, using the search box on the site, the site seems to take the submitted information and generates a search key from it, A sequence of numbers, not the strings I searching for. The browser window is changed to display a url containing the resulting key.

(The answer above opened a new tab and displayed the html code in the url bar.)

execute: function(directObject) {
...
jQuery.get(url, params, function(data) {
// how do I change the browser to display the new data (or url)?
});
}

nbr,

Feel free to start a wiki at any time. It would be much appreciated.

I really would like to be able to create a FAQ on Get Satisfaction. It would actually end up saving me time. So I made a suggestion. Maybe they'll implement it at some time in the future.
http://getsatisfaction.com/getsatisfa...

Whitney,

Please be careful about what you post online. The picture contains your personal email address and your special Sandy email address. The one you don't want anybody to know. Now that it's been published online please go change it immediately. http://iwantsandy.com/settings

About the "remember + " power move. Can you describe the problem in more detail? It appears that Sandy DID schedule an appointment on 10/10 . So, what is the problem? I don't know if it successfully scheduled the other item in the list. (scoop cat litter this evening @todo @daily)

I did notice that it looks like you're including an extra line between items in the list. I've heard there are problems with this. If you're still experiencing a problem, try removing all the blank lines. (The blank line after the first line and any blank lines in-between items in the list.)

Why not just start a blog?

It's easy enough to set up a free account. Set the permissions so that all your new posts are private, so it's all "for your eyes only". Then have Jott or Twitter send a message to your blog site, and they create a new blog post for you. Presto, a mileage log.

I know this is possible through Jott. Even now, updating a blog is free. (See http://jott.com/jott/jott-links.html You get 15 seconds of speaking time.) I'm not sure how to post to a blog from Twitter or SMS. But there should be something available.

Doing a quick search, I found BlogIt, letmeparty.com/, and http://textu.org/for-blogs/text-me-bo... that make posts via SMS.