kevin1's dashboard

This is usable through email and website only. You can't set multiple reminders by Twitter or Jott.

Because multiple reminders need to be separated with a blank line, and Twitter and Jott can't use multiple lines.

You can't use the "Remember +" Power Move through them either.

I'm not sure why youre getting reminders every 90 minutes. Odd.

I have an idea why you've not been able to delete the event though. You need to delete the "all future occurrences" of the event.

1) from email:
Make sure that you use the appropriate Repeating tag (@daily @weekly, etc) when you try to forget the event by email. Using the special tag will cause Sandy to forget all upcoming events. Not just the next upcoming event.

forget #1 @weekly

2) from the website
Do a search (in the search box) for same text contained in the event. This might list several instances of the event. (past and future, other, ) Click on them until you find one that says "Are you sure you want to edit all future occurrences of this event?" then click "yes" and then forget that event.

Clicking on the event from most screens (the daily digest, list, etc.) will take you to the "next occurrence" of the event, not "all future occurrences". You've got to forget the "all future occurrences" event.

Bricoleur,

You're right. The script would be better if it also captured the URL. I've edited the script so that it includes a URL. (In order to make it behave something like Google Notebook.)

Javascript stuff: (in case you're interested)
var msg -- creates a variable named 'msg'
+ symbol -- How to join two strings together
location.href -- The current URL
document.title -- The Title of the current page.
document.Selection() -- whatever is currently selected on the current page
window.open(a, b) -- command to open a new window
prompt(a, b) -- command to open a dialog box (ask the user to edit text)
message[subject] -- the subject of the message to send to Sandy
message[body] -- the body of the message to send to Sandy.
http://iwantsandy.com/email/create -- URL where an email is created to Sandy
_iwantsandy -- name I chose for the new window

There's a problem though. Sometimes Sandy's storing these snippets as a "Contact" not as a Note or Appointment, etc. I'm not sure what to do about that. I'm trying to have the link be *additional information* and otherwise ignored.

I was also playing around with the idea of creating a real html link. One that included both the URL and the title of the current page. (<a href="theURL"> Link name </a>) Sandy always interprets that as a Contact. (I also had to put the title in quotes "like this" in order to stop Sandy from using the title as a name of the thing to be remembered.)

URL only:
javascript:var msg=prompt('Write to Sandy:',document.getSelection()+' ');if(msg!=null){var win=window.open('http://iwantsandy.com/email/create?message[subject]=From bookmark&message[body]=Remember '+msg+' ('+location.href+')','_iwantsandy');}

URL and Title of the current page:
javascript:var msg=prompt('Write to Sandy:',document.getSelection()+' ');if(msg!=null){var win=window.open('http://iwantsandy.com/email/create?message[subject]=From bookmark&message[body]=Remember '+msg+' (<a href="'+location.href+'">"'+document.title+'"</a>)','_iwantsandy');}

Check this out. A bookmark that pops up a form. You type in what you want Sandy to remember and press enter. That's it, you're done.

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

It seems I spoke too soon. I was able to get it working. (I don't know what I was doing wrong before.)

This is a neat little script.

1) it copies whatever is currently selected on the page and puts it in the form.
2) It prompts the user to edit the text (add tags, etc.)
3) It automatically adds the word "remember" to the beginning of the text.
4) It opens the iwantsandy email page in a new window
5) it emails the text in the form to Sandy.

javascript:var%20msg=prompt('Write%20to%20Sandy:',document.getSelection()+'%20');if(msg!=null){var%20win=window.open('http://iwantsandy.com/email/create?message[subject]=From%20bookmark&message[body]=Remember%20'+msg,'_iwantsandy');}

To use this script:
1) Create a bookmark.
2) Right click on the bookmark and select "properties"
3) Copy the script above into the location field.

I experimented a little with Schmelding's javascript idea, here's what I got.

1) the http://iwantsandy.com/email/create page doesn't do anything with 'message' or 'body' or 'subject' arguments. Until it does, I can't write a bookmark to automatically fill in the body of the message on that page.

So I tried Yahoo mail and Gmail instead.

http://compose.mail.yahoo.com/?to=san...

http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&...

2) I edited the example bookmark to check for null. (So that selecting 'Cancel" won't do anything.)

javascript:var%20msg=prompt('Write%20to%20Sandy:','Remember%20REQUEST%20TIME.');if(msg!=null&&msg!='Remember%20REQUEST%20TIME.'){location.href='http://compose.mail.yahoo.com?to=sandy&subject=From%20bookmark&body='+msg;}

3) Currently, I still like Bricoleur's idea better. But if I could get a couple more things to work right...

a) Anybody know how to get javascript to access a text string containing all of the highlighted words on the current page?

b) It would be better if the iwantsandy.com/email/create page accepted a 'body' parameter.

A FireFox extension sounds like a great idea.

In the meantime, here's another fast way to enter stuff into Sandy. Create a bookmark that opens in the sidebar.

1) Create a bookmark.
The easiest way is to drag this link to the FireFox bookmarks toolbar. A new button will be created.
http://iwantsandy.com/email/new

2) Edit the properties of the bookmark.
Right click on the button and select "properties", then change the name of the link. I call mine "Email Sandy".

3) I suggest you set the "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" option. (So the link opens in the side bar rather than creating a new page.)

I copied the idea form here. http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Chris,

Yes, you add something to the end of your feed. At least add "tags=todo", although you can also add more search terms to further specify what you want.

You can include done todos, archived todos, and turn off past todos. (The default for todo items is to include past todos that haven't been marked @done.) I don't think that sort order will make any difference in a calendar feed, because the calendar application rearranges the items anyway. But feel free to experiment.

http://iwantsandy.com/list.ics?tags=todo
http://iwantsandy.com/list.ics?tags=t...
http://iwantsandy.com/list.ics?tags=t...
http://iwantsandy.com/list.ics?tags=t...

I'm aware of a couple of workarounds for this problem, but it's still a problem. It's not as easy as it should be to print a list, or download it.

Workarounds that I found
1) Print out the full iwantsandy web page, not just the list.
(Ex: http://iwantsandy.com/1234567)
2) Copy and paste the list from an email (or the website) to an empty text file, and then print it out.
3) Add ".txt" to the end of the URL to get the item as a text file.
(Ex: http://iwantsandy.com/1234567.txt)
This feature works, but it isn't documented anywhere.

Of course, the entire problem would go away if Sandy could respond via IM.

People could use their mobile phones to IM Sandy and Sandy could IM back. All without the 140 character limit of sms.

I agree. It's quite annoying having lookups through Twitter and Jott return only the first result result". I've asked about this and the stated reason for the behavior is the 140 character limit that sms messages have. (Twitter has this limit too.)

There are 2 different scenarios.

1) try to lookup all items that have a certain tag or contain certain text.
2) try to lookup the contents of a list item.

For case #1, Right now, Sandy only returns the "first result" via Twitter and Jott (with SMS reply). This is extremely limiting. I think Sandy should return a list of the "top three" results. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

For case #2, This isn't currently possible. Even looking up the exact name of the list will only result in a "first result" response with the name of the list. It isn't possible to get the "contents* of the list. See http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

You're right. This is a problem that should be fixed.

As a workaround, try this.
1) open the list in a new browser window. Ex http://iwantsandy.com/178456
2) add the text ".txt" to the end of the URL

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

It is possible to create calendar and RSS feeds containing only items with a specific tag. Use the search term "tags=blahblah".

http://iwantsandy.com/list?tags=proje... (website)
http://iwantsandy.com/list.ics?tags=p... (calendar feed)
http://iwantsandy.com/list.rss?tags=p... (RSS feed)

Although you might want to use the "private" version of the feeds in order to avoid authentication problems. (Looks like http://iwantsandy.com/we5rnl28m1ns3dy...)

To add done items, archived items and past events.
http://iwantsandy.com/list.ics?tags=t...

The RSS feeds have an additional problem. They only return the first "page" of items (about 25).

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