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Erm...Hans. You ARE aware that Nokia phones use Symbian. Symbian being the LEADING smartphone OS. MORE people have a Symbian phone than iPhones and Andriods combined. Reading the collective whining on this topic is so depressing. Your demands are based on your OWN use rather than the fact more people have another platform. Grow up – Aitese, on December 15, 2009 12:28

Erm...Hans. You ARE aware that Nokia phones use Symbian. Symbian being the LEADING smartphone OS. MORE people have a Symbian phone than iPhones and Andriods combined. Reading the collective whining on this topic is so depressing. Your demands are based on your OWN use rather than the fact more people have another platform. Grow up – Aitese, on December 15, 2009 12:25

Erm...Hans. You ARE aware that Nokia phones use Symbian. Symbian being the LEADING smartphone OS. MORE people have a Symbian phone than iPhones and Andriods combined. Reading the collective whining on this topic is so depressing. Your demands are based on your OWN use rather than the fact more people have another platform. Grow up – Aitese, on December 15, 2009 12:25

Who took a dump in your breakfast cereal? Why would you get so worked up over people criticising it if it's not clear. I eventually figured that out, but it's not at all intuitive is it? I click the trend and it opens up to the explanation, but so does clicking "why". Why have two methods of doing the same thing no more than two or three pixels apart? I'd think the "why" link was there because there was no other method of opening up that function. – Aitese, on November 10, 2009 17:57

I should be able to remove them as right now they're not at all helpful or useful. Even when I AM interested I can't DO anything with them. Shouldn't clicking on the trend take me to a list of tweets on that subject?

@Mimi

The funny thing is the DID ask...exactly one year ago in fact: http://bit.ly/vfKY

Th funny part is ALL the comments at the bottom that Evan asked for stated "DON'T CHANGE THIS" and the appropriate action was obviously IGNORE everyone

I just used this fir the first time with an actual upcoming meal, at first I exprerimented with the possibility of using the tag for multiple reminders:

Remind me about Cassie's meal at Ginny's in Bromley at 6pm 15th August @reminder 9pm 14th August @reminder 4pm 15th August

The outcome was totally borked:

I added these to your calendar:

#1 Fri, 15/8 6:00pm Cassie's meal at Ginny's in Bromley 4pm
- email reminder at 5:00pm
- tagged with @reminder

#2 Fri, 25/7 7:00am Cassie's meal at Ginny's in Bromley
- email reminder on Thu, 14/8 at 9:00pm
- tagged with @reminder

Maybe this IS possible but I'm doing it wrong? The idea was I needed to know to put some clothes out the night before, even shave perhaps as I usually trot off to work in the morning looking like a bum, but I still wanted reminding in the afternoon as I also rush out of the office like a kid at the end of school and would not get on the right route to the restaurant.

Is there a way to use multiple tags? I decided to tell Sandy to forget these first 2 and tried with just the evening reminder and the system works flawlessly, great work guys!

That's brilliant!

What syntax works with this? Or is there a link to a help page?

i.e. @reminder at 3pm, @reminder on Sunday etc.

Amazing...funny what you find when you look properly.

Thank you

The point with Sandy is that you're not supposed to be addressing yourself...you're supposed to be addressing Sandy at all times as if you're emailing a person. To an untrained person what I have propossed would not be any different.

For example:

Remind me about dinner at 16:30pm

Would do what Sandy always does and send an email reminder at your default interval (15 mins before or more)

Remember dinner at 16:30pm

Should do the same for anyone who has not explored any other options. The difference I propose would be a check box for "remember" in your preferences that opt's out of automatic reminders for the verb remember. So people who don't know about it won't be affected...they bet thier default email reminder as they have always done...when they are ready for a more intuative system it's just a quick read of the FAQ's and a check box away.

So once you switch from the default to the "advanced" scedular, you now have to specify when you want your reminder or Sandy will fall back to your set default .

Remember dinner at 16:30pm. Remind me at 13:00pm

If you don't set the reminder then Sandy will remind you 15 minutes before (or whatever you have set it to)

The point is Sandy would understand the context of the word as we would. You wouldn't naturally "schedule" a phone number or your favourite foods; you'd "remember" those things with no time or date. So the idea is if you have a meeting you say to Sandy:

Schedule meeting with Brad on/at time/date. (Hopefully they could implement someway of indicating start and finish time so Sandy can inform you of overlaps/double bookings)

The DEFAULT action chosen by you in the settings could be to ONLY put the appointment in the calendar OR do that plus remind you at your default set time, i.e. 15 minutes before etc.
If you have your settings to NOT automatically remind you of anything posted with a date or time you would append to the end of the request a reminder:

Schedule meeting with Brad on/at time/date. Remind me on/at time/date

You would use "schedule" specifically to enter an appointment in the calendar and Sandy would expressly look for a time/date...possibly email you back to ask when the request should be scheduled for and keep prompting you until she has all the info needed:

You: Sandy, schedule meeting with Mark
Sandy: When do you want this appointment scheduled for?

At this point Sandy would receive a time or date AND time...but she wouldn’t stop prompting until the time data specifically is completed (what’s a good secretary/personal assistant if they don’t nag you every now and again?)

Basically she would, when reading the word “schedule” look for:

1 What the appointment is
2 When it starts
3 When it ends
? The day

The last one would be optional as if that is not provided she would schedule the appointment for the same day.

The big problem I found is short cuts...the shortcut for “remind” is “r” so what would be the shortcut for “remember”?

I tried what you tried and it works. Then I spotted that your dates are strange. Did you really want a reminder about something in 2006 in 2002? If that's just a typo it could be that you are getting the html emails. Someone mentioned there was a bug with Sandy reading replies to her own html emails.

Another user and myself were discussing this yesterday after I suggested it...he brought up times when he’d want to use the word “schedule” in an appointment that would cause confusion. For example:

“Remind me to check my schedule at 4pm” or “r Check schedule, 4pm” The word “schedule” in the middle will suddenly complicate things. The reason the “remind” works is you can’t really use it for anything else except that one meaning...to remind you of something.

I suggested maybe a distinction between the word “remember” which would just make a calendar or to-do list entry, and “remind” which obviously reminds you about a calendar or to-do list entry. My thinking is I’m often asked to remember something that the someone wants me to keep in mind, but not necessarily remind them too. They just don’t want to have to remind me so expect me to remember myself. Remembering and being reminded are two different things...except to Sandy. You ask Sandy to remember something and she will also remind you of it as the default time unless you expressly tell her not to with the @noreminder tag. Plus to use both in a single sentence would be redundant:

“Remind me to remember...” or “Remember to remind me...” don’t really make much sense.

The problem is using the letter R as a shortcut for remind could be confusing if the other alternative also begins with R.

If you have time you should check out the topics "Remind about time A at time B" and "Change the reminder time with an email"

I had actually considered this shortly after my reply when I suddenly realised we have a process here at work that is actually called a "schedule" which sometimes we have to run outside the allotted time. I was thinking there would be confusion if for example I said "Remind me about emergency schedule on Friday morning"

So the word Schedule is out, but I do believe this problem arises from the lack of distinction between the word REMEMBER and REMIND.

I'm sure everyone knows these are two different, although related, words. If I ask someone to remember to meet me somewhere I'm not also asking him or her to remind me of the meeting. You tell Sandy to remember something and you have to explicitly tell her @noreminder to stop her reminding you. I should be able to ask her to REMEMBER something and then set a REMINDER as a separate element. This is how most schedulers I've ever used operate. My Outlook calendar does not remind me of an entry or sound an alarm unless I expressly ask it to. Neither does my phone. The example should be:

Remind me of A at time/date (Sandy does the default reminder before the event based on your default settings)

Remember A at time/date (The event is scheduled but no reminder is sent...also good for To-Do list entries)

Remember A at time/date. Remind me at time/date (Sandy schedules the event and reminds you when you want)

The trouble comes when you want to use the shortcuts as remind and remember both begin with r, but I’m just throwing ideas out there.