Matthew Reidsma's dashboard

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');}

I certainly couldn't have come up with anything this elegant so I am somewhat loathe to kibbitz... but... I still like to capture the url (as per one of the requests) and there is no way to do this with this... so for now I'm sticking with my less elegant hack... but hoping you'll make it even a better routine kevin ;) – Bricoleur, on August 14, 2008 06:37

This bit worked for me only after changing the %20 to real spaces in the bookmark location field. Great hack! – Markk, on August 13, 2008 12:22

Great idea!

Anything scheduled for today will automatically appear in the top part of the digest. If you manually add any tags otherwise, then it will pull all matches it can find to include.

Thanks, Kevin. I at least understand better now.

This is a good question. Editing the context in some ways is a little bit faster than editing the individual fields. In addition, editing the additional fields doesn't update the context, so it is a little weird when I look at the original context and it doesn't correspond. But those are just style complaints. At least one *definite* feature that I don't see is the ability to add a list to an entry after it has been defined. If I write a list in the entry initially I can edit it, but if I realize I need a list after the fact then I'm SOL. – Todd, on August 07, 2008 21:52

Not being able to edit the context is a problem for me too. I made a suggestion a while ago that Sandy should add an editable text area to every item. The area would originally filled with a copy of the "context", but you can edit it however you wish later on.

Look at this idea. http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

The other replies here are correct, but perhaps they're missing the point. If I understand you correctly, you're looking to add information to the "context" area of the thing Sandy remembered.

You can edit the "Name" of the thing easily enough. On the website, click on the item and then select "edit". To update an item by email, read Yeraze's post above.

Not being able to edit the context is a problem for me too. I made a suggestion a while ago that Sandy should add an editable text area to every item. The area would originally filled with a copy of the "context", but you can edit it however you wish later on.

Look at this idea. http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...

Just a quick additional note: Sandy's taking care of those direct messages as quickly as she possibly can, but Twitter's having some capacity issues at the moment, so it'll still be a few minutes before she gets through all of them.

Once again, we appreciate your patience and expect all should be completely caught up in just a few minutes.

—Rael

Good morning!

Sandy's a-twittering away, working her way through the pile of direct messages she was not able to yesterday.

Additionally, I'll be putting additional monitoring in place so that should such a thing happen again, we'll know about it post-haste.

I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Rael

Howdy again,

Sandy seems to have stumbled over a change in Twitter's API (aka programmatic interface) [http://groups.google.com/group/twitte...] that has affected her ability to work with your direct messages.

We've isolated the issue and are testing a fix now. Sandy should be back to twittering with you in no time.

—R

Hi Pscharmer!

Thanks for reporting this. Sandy seems to be having some trouble communicating with Twitter right now. I'm digging in and will report back shortly with what I find.

--Rael

Sandy events aren't showing up in Google Calendar over 4 and a half hours later. Maybe it's Google's fault. Maybe it's Sandy's. I don't know. I'm afraid, though, it's a make or break for me.

If this is a long-standing known issue with Google, however, then why would Sandy advertise that it could sync with Gcal on it's site? Obviously it can't so why get people's hopes up?

I've spent a few hours investigating Sandy today as a newbie but most of the things I've tried - email reminders, automatic refreshing of Sandy events in Google calendar - just don't work. Maybe they did for people in the past but they don't for me so I'm going to call it quits for a while and hope Sandy comes out of beta sooner than later.

Same here. I loved using it for the same reason above. Sync to Google calendar, then Google pushes to my work calendar which pushes it to my phone. (ridiculous I know) This worked fine for a month or so, but has stopped with both my RSS feeds and Google. I've refreshed a few times and it works for a while then nothing. Based upon above, it sounds more like a Google issue (Imagine that!) What would be a better solution for us users of that feed. Especially the mobile phone idea. (if Pocket outlook would allow access to that ics calendar feed.

I'm trying to like Sandy, but it isn't working out so well. It seems like this would be a fairly simple fix for Sandy. I have a Pocket PC that syncs my mobile calendar (both ways) with my Google Calendar. Yes, I know that "syncing" is different than a feed update, but the end result is the same... my mobile calendar is exactly the same as my Google calendar.

Since I can use Jott to add events to my Google Calendar and Jott will also send me reminders as well... I find myself using Jott and not Sandy.

Sandy is a good idea, but she won't be a great help until she can read/write my calendar. I'm not switching to hers.

jweaks