Chad Woolley's dashboard

Our current plan is to use a token based authentication approach. Each user will be able to generate a token that will be passed along as the basic auth user during api requests. More to come on this in the future.

Perfect.

I will assume that you have an equally good solution for authenticating my request. That was the one thing that prevented me from using the CSV export you already have. – Ward Cunningham, on October 08, 2008 16:49

The name is the story title that is displayed as part of the unexpanded view of a story. The description is the text placed in the "Description" section of an expanded story.

The example story I used just happened to not have any notes. Notes will show up under the story element like this:
<story>
....
<notes>
<note>
<text>a note</text>
<author>Mark Test</author>
<date>Oct 28, 2008</date>
</note>
</notes>
</story>

Mark

Mark -- This is very close to what my ruby code produces from the existing csv. Some questions: What is name? Why is description empty? What happened to the notes? – Ward Cunningham, on October 08, 2008 06:11

We're changing the font back to black, watch for that change early next week.

Excellent work, Pivots! I love this tool, and now that looks even slicker and friendlier, my clients are more willing to use it. Fantastic!

When can I pay you guys money for using Tracker?

I agree with Jen, the gray on yellow is difficult to read. I switched the font to black in Firebug - it's much easier on the eyes.

Can the font in tracker be changed back to black? The gray text is hard on the eyes. Multiple people have complained about this.

Glad you figured it out. Using "Reminder" instead of "Remember" solves one of the other things that confused me. I'm still curious why you didn't get a reminder 15 minutes before 7 am though. Maybe you've changed your default reminder time. (http://iwantsandy.com/settings/datetime)

I definitely recommend using the "most recently updated" list to track new items that you've created. (i.e. "Your Stuff -> Any Type" http://iwantsandy.com/list) It's easy and it shows all items, sorted by the last time you updated the item. (It includes items of all types, although it doesn't include items tagged with @archive.) There are a couple of odd things to watch out for though.

First, the list doesn't show anything for those Jotts or emails where an error happened and Sandy failed to find something to do. I cannot tell you how annoying this is. I would like to be able to use the "most recently updated" list to manage all my Sandy communications, fix things that were transcribed incorrectly, etc. But I can't rely on this list. Instead, every day I have to worry about the possibility that some error happened and check either Sandy's emails (http://iwantsdandy.com/email) or my own email account for anything where she responds and says "I got your jott [email] but couldn't find anything you asked me to do." I would like for Sandy to create something, anything, so that I could have a list of the cases where she didn't understand something. That way I would have a specific place I could check for those errors.

Second, by default, the "most recently updated" list hides two things, 1) old events, and 2) @done items. See the links at the top of the list page "Show done to-dos" and "Show past". This is the most likely reason you weren't able to see the "call bank" event in the list. Because you didn't look at the list before the event occurred. (i.e. You didn't look at the list between whenever you created the event, say 2 pm on the first day, and 7:00 am the next morning.)

Here are the contents of the email I got:

---------------------
Your wake-up call:

7:00am Call Bank.

* email and sms reminders at 7:00am

To snooze this reminder until tomorrow, reply with: snooze until tomorrow
----------------

I think I understand the problem now - this Jott was transcribed as "Reminder", not "Remember" (I got it incorrect in the original problem report, sorry).

This apparently caused it to be a one-time event, and not show up with my other actve "remember" items in "Your Stuff -> Any Type". Instead, I only got the "wake up" call email listed above, and I had to click on the date to see the item. This confused me, because I really wanted it to be a "remember" item and show up in "Your Stuff" until I marked it complete.

Thanks for the response, still slowly figuring out Sandy's nuances...

The description you give is very confusing. What do you mean by "wakeup call"? Can you give some more information on just what you mean?

Do you mean that Sandy called you in the morning? Did she specifically call in order to wake you up? What time did she call? Did she send you an email or did she call your cell phone? Did she actually call, or did she send you an sms message? What did it say? Can you give a description of what the event looks like on the Sandy website? When did Sandy schedule it? Is it a repeating event? Does it have a reminder, at what time? Any other important details? hint, hint.

My best guess right now is that you didn't provide a time, so Sandy scheduled it for the default time, 7 am. And she set a reminder for the event at the default time of 15 minutes before the event. Odd how the reminder was sent to your phone when the message didn't use the @sms tag. But maybe you have the global setting turned on that Sandy should send you sms reminders about everything. (http://iwantsandy.com/settings/mobile)

Did you receive a 6:45 am sms message from Sandy reminding you to call the bank?

OK, that is almost there. I have to start with "remember". Yes, in the docs, but I didn't get it. Bad me, but it would be great if the failure response to Jott from Sandy said something to the effect of "I didn't understand that. Make sure to start your Jotts to Sandy with 'Remember'". For more info, see <help>" Something like that would have saved me a lot of time, the nuances are tough to get for ADD programmer types like me...

Now, for the final problem. This last attempt came through as "tag with to do", which got tagged in Sandy with "to" and "do". There should be some intelligent filtering to turn "tag with todo", "tag with to-do" or "tag with to do" into the "todo" tag in Sandy.

thanks for all the help,
-- Chad</help>

I tested again, to see if I can get the "-" in the todo but the closest i could come was " tag with to do" which Sandy correctly tagged as @todo – Bricoleur, on August 03, 2008 05:10

When using Jott you always have to start with the "Remember"...

so it would be "remember clean yard tag with to-do"

if you haven't put the "remember" first, Sandy doesn't find anything in the communication

With that said the additon of the "-" in the todo is likely problematic as it might be recognized as your own (new) tag rather than the reserved system tag. - I haven't encountered this myself.

OK, I realized I was Jotting "myself" instead of "sandy". Now, "remember" messages are getting through.

However, there is still a problem with TODOs. Here are the Jotts I sent to Sandy:

Testing 1 2 3, tag with to-do.
Clean yard, tag with To-Do.

And here is the error Jott got back from Sandy for both of these:

I got your jott but couldn't find anything you asked me to do.

This seems like a bug, this is exactly as described here: http://iwantsandy.com/help/jott

Are the dashes causing problems?