shinedown's dashboard

Exactly what I'd like, too. Usually it's easiest for me to call Sandy, knowing that the confirmation email will trigger a gadget in my Gmail which will in turn make it get added to both my RTM and Gcal. But other times starting with Gcal is more appropriate, and I really hate having to do something twice, when a lot of the time I'm lucky to manage to do it once!

That's what I'm looking for too - I'd love to hear more about how sandy is going to address this.

And thanks for that link Kevin, I didn't even know that was there www.iwantsandy.com/email . And no, Sandy isn't receiving the emails... I don't think its getting forwarded because this is definitely a Gmail issue but I have not gotten any help on it. – ThunderBoy, on July 18, 2008 20:57

Thanks both Kevin and Rael,
I definitely appreciate you following up (although it got me obsessed with trying to resolve the problem again and i wasted another 2 hours ;) -- Unfortunately or fortunately for RD this is definitely not a Sandy issue, it is a problem in Gmail. I only have one other forwarding filter from Jott to Stikkit. That one seems to be working... but I can't get to work ANY NEW forwarding filters. No idea what's the problem. They just aren't going anywhere – ThunderBoy, on July 18, 2008 20:18

"r" works across the board, no matter how Sandy gets your message. – Rael Dornfest, on July 18, 2008 07:54

Have you solved this yet? Have you considered that your emails might be forwarding, but Sandy is just not understanding them? Check http://iwantsandy.com/email to see if Sandy's receiving your forwarded emails. Somebody said that using "r" doesn't work, but "remind me" does. http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy... – kevin1, on July 18, 2008 05:12

yes. ;)

What do you mean by "full synchronization"? Currently Google Calendar can display Sandy's events as part of it's schedule (via iCal feed) or as part of Sandy's Gcal gadget (which is very similar to the Remember The Milk gadget). By "full synchronization" do you mean that you want things added in Google Calendar to show up in Sandy?

it'd be awesome to be able to text sandy directly more easily, but the twitter method does work pretty well, so it might not be worth the trouble.

Thanks PrimalOne,
I was ecstatic at your suggestion in what should have been an obvious solution and set about trying this that I had not thought of before, and thanks for putting this plug in our heads; However, in practice, it didn't work for me... For some crazy reason, my Gmail is not forwarding to Sandy... I have tried everything but the filter mechanism won't forward to Sandy...its not making sense why...I know and yet....
But it just won't forward...period. I get the email to myself in my inbox, but it doesn't go any further than that. No word yet on whether it is only opposed to sandy or if I tried to forward to another email if the same would happen. Haven't tried the latter.

But to recap, the filter forwarding mechanism isn't working for me. Alas! Back to the drawing board. One thing I need this texting thing for is that I park on the street and often forget where I parked the day before...lol. It has at times taken me upto an hour to find my car the next day and you can imagine how bad that could get when running to work...lol

me too – aly, on June 23, 2008 18:20

I have the same problem. :( – Kittyglampants, on June 19, 2008 21:38

Twitter does this, it really does work.

The programmers for this service have been smart to not duplicate work other people have already done for them. Try out Twitter, you'll be surprised at how easy it is!

i agree, having my phone set up as an email is very helpful.

Here is an idea if you already have your two available e-mails used up
First we are going to assume that atleast one of these is a gmail account.
Well go to your gmail account and create a filter. Do "filter by - From:(your ten digit cell number@(carrierspecific domiain)" click next and then tell the filter to Forward to your sandy e-mail account.
For example i have a g-mail filter to send all messages from 4173490000@message.alltel.com to xxxx@iwantsandy.com

now i can txt my google account the reply to my iwantsandy message, and she will get it as an e-mail from gmail.

you can set up more specific filters for a more powerful experience and yes i realize that this reply e-mail isnt attached to the txt she sent you so @done wont work well (dev team should be thinking about this)

What Thunderboy said--I'd like to add my txt.att.net address as a third one.

HELP!!! I need Sandy to accept Texts.
OR AT THE VERY LEAST ADD a THIRD EMAIL to the account so that I can use the texting email that came with my service provider e.g. xxx-xxx-xxxx@txt.att.net

The presently alloted two emails are being taken up by my Personal email address and my Work email address. I need a way to text her.

Howdy,

Thanks, Kevin, for taking the time to answer Shinedown's question!

If you find yourself wanting to respond to Sandy's SMS reminders on a regular basis — this happens to me when I'm at conferences as I am right now — you may want to switch to Twitter reminders [http://iwantsandy.com/settings/twitter] and turn off mobile text/SMS reminders [http://iwantsandy.com/settings/mobile] (unless you want the duplicates/back-up).

As Kevin mentioned, you can then reply to the reminders by asking Sandy to snooze an item by number. For example:

Sandy sends you a reminder tweet: "[from Sandy] #3 Reminder: go for a walk (Wed, 12/19/2007 12:45pm)"

You send her a direct Twitter message: d s remind me about #3 in 15 minutes

As opposed to how things work by email, Sandy rolls those numbers over each 24 hour period (so you might be up to #41 today, but you'll start again with your first reminder tomorrow being numbered #1) when reminding you via Twitter.

Why don't we do that across all reminder methods? Good question — and one we'd like to consider fixing such that you could receive an SMS reminder for "#3 ..." and be able to email Sandy with "To: Sandy; From: Me; Subject: remind me about #3 in 15 minutes".

That said, we're considering labels instead of those numbers so that you could say 'remind me about "groceries" in 15 minutes', no matter how you write to Sandy. This is fraught with implementation work to be considered carefully, but we're definitely considering it.

As usual, we'd love to hear from you with any input, suggestions, confusions, or anything in-between — as we like to say here, you can help us help Sandy help you!

—R

As far as I know, there isn't a way to do this with SMS. There is a way to do this with Twitter.

You can't send an SMS directly to Sandy.

1) You can connect Sandy to your Twitter account and then send an SMS to Twitter and use that to "direct message" Sandy.
2) You can use your phone to send an email to Sandy.
3) I've heard that some people can set up their phone somehow so that they can SMS the address that Sandy messages come from, but what happens is that AT&T (or Verizon, etc.) has a gateway and converts the SMS that was sent to that address into an email. So Sandy receives an email.

I don't have any experience with #3. It's just something I read.

There's an additional problem with SMS as well. Most SMS messages don't quote or refer to the original message. So even if you reply to an SMS, Sandy won't know what you want to snooze. (They were able to get around this limitation somehow. I think it has something to do with the numbers. Like #3.)

You CAN snooze reminders over Twitter.
(Tag the reminder with @twitter, not @sms).

http://iwantsandy.com/help/twitter
http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy...
Example:
> [from Sandy] #3 Reminder: go for a walk (Wed, 12/19/2007 12:45pm)

> d s remind me in 5 minutes
- or -
> d s forget #3
> d s update #3 tomorrow at 12:45pm

Yeah, a more direct sms method is needed. You can't do everything through texting that you can through standard email. Like when you try to reply to an sms message you received. Sandy receives that message as a brand new one (not linked to the one you received). Makes it hard to tag todos with @done, etc.