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plainclothes replied on June 25, 2009 15:49 to the problem "My Google Calendar fails private url with "We could not parse the calendar at the url requested."" in I want Sandy:

I moved to 30boxes. judging by the dates above, that was a year ago and no problems since.

plainclothes replied on June 09, 2009 18:47 to the question "is there a good alternative to Basecamp?" in 37signals:

Merlin is a rather daunting program that can do all sorts of wonderful things with project management. depending on what you want to do the learning curve can be steep but, it can do an awful lot. one aspect I like (and one of it's more under-documented and complex components) is the ability to export just about anything in a project to XML and then run it through custom XSLTs.

I've only worked with the desktop version, but it also works over networks. if you're using OSX (which the desktop version requires), it works very nicely with iCal and AddressBook.

plainclothes replied on December 08, 2008 18:58 to the problem "Export doesn't include full 'context'!" in I want Sandy:

thanks for the offer, Rael. in the fear of not finding a solution in time, I've tracked down much of my info by hand. fortunately, I kept my list very clean and it hasn't been too much work to get to the big things.

I mainly wanted to bring this to people's attention before their info has fallen out of the could. if anyone has been using Sandy to archive a large number of notes, this oversight could be huge!

if anyone's interested, I've stared using Toodledo and I've been pretty happy so far. in the area of elegance, it doesn't compare to your work Rael, but it has some nice features. the two big ones for me are the ability to edit notes and thorough export capabilities. it also has good support for tags and a number of other task-organization features.

it's becoming quite a cliche around here, but thanks for your excellent work, Rael! I'm sure Twitter will be a better place for your involvement.

plainclothes reported a problem in I want Sandy on December 08, 2008 16:53:

Export doesn't include full 'context'!

I requested and downloaded all the possible exports, including the full human-readable text file. nothing includes the full context of the events, just the title, tags, and date/time. for me, the title and tags were just indicators of what was inside with the context (the body of my e-mails) being the holder of all my thoughts. without context, most of my notes are useless teasers.

I posted this issue the official export announcement, but I'm afraid it may go unnoticed there.
http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

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plainclothes replied on August 08, 2008 00:07 to the question "Why aren't my new reminders showing up in Google Calendar?" in I want Sandy:

> You'll have to wait for Google to refresh the feed before your changes will appear.

I use 30 Boxes which allows me to manually refresh the feed, but it requires a couple extra clicks into my settings to do so (bad UI, IMHO). gCal might have something similar hidden away.

plainclothes started following the question "How do I update an item AFTER sending it to Sandy?" in I want Sandy.

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plainclothes replied on May 02, 2008 06:08 to the problem "My Google Calendar fails private url with "We could not parse the calendar at the url requested."" in I want Sandy:

I've been hoping for some solution on this one, as calendar integration would be a big help. since it seems to be a lack of standardization on google's end, I'm willing to switch. can anyone recommend a good, web-based cal that's working well with Sandy?

plainclothes started following the problem "My Google Calendar fails private url with "We could not parse the calendar at the url requested."" in I want Sandy.

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plainclothes replied on January 24, 2008 23:22 to the idea "notes and list editing" in I want Sandy:

“it would also be nice to have the ability to edit notes”

this is a pretty big omission in my experience. I send the appt info in the subject line and fill the body of the message with all the info I need for that particular task. if anything changes, I either have to send another appt as an addendum or delete the task and resend. this is big enough to keep me from fully incorporating Sandy into my daily task management.