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bluedrums replied on December 01, 2008 04:55 to the idea "List Sandy Replacements Here / delicious tag" in I want Sandy:

Backpack with Backboard are my votes. Backpack can also be "group enabled" and the new Backboard freeware app is simple yet powerful.

bluedrums replied on November 29, 2008 17:59 to the update "A fork in the road (An important announcement about I want Sandy)" in I want Sandy:

Sandy has become a part of my life and I will miss her. I definitely agree that less than two weeks is not enough time to notify the user base. Twitter: not a good way to keep customers. That said...

For all who are critics of Rael's decision, keep in mind that a startup that gets acquired is actually a resounding success. A startup has 3 options:

1.) Stay independent and dominate the world (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.)
2.) Be acquired and cash in to a bigger company (Pixar to Disney, etc.)
3.) Fail

So, I applaud the Values of n team for "making waves" and getting the attention of the Web 2.0 world. They advanced the web PIM category to the level where it can't be ignored, and now someone (Twitter) has decided they need to get in the game and they believe Sandy/Stikkit will help them win.

Congrats Rael and Values of n.

bluedrums replied on November 07, 2008 04:50 to the problem ""hide done to-dos" is not working" in I want Sandy:

bump. bug still there.

bluedrums reported a problem in I want Sandy on September 22, 2008 17:34:

"hide done to-dos" is not working

To replicate the issue:

1. Go to Daily Digest (works fine).
2. Click on any tag that includes done to-dos and past items.
3. After Sandy shows the items included in the tag, notice that the "Show done to-dos" option is available at the top of the screen. Also note that done to-dos are visible in the item list.
4. Click "Show done to-dos" option. Nothing happens.
5. Click "Hide done to-dos" option. Nothing happens.

Love Sandy, but this was working at one point, and it hasn't now for several weeks. I don't know why anyone doesn't notice these bugs that appear small but are HUGE on the annoyance factor.

bluedrums started following the idea "A Sandy API" in I want Sandy.

bluedrums started following the idea "Can we have more goal options?" in I want Sandy.

bluedrums replied on April 09, 2008 06:23 to the question "How Do I Send Existing "Sandied" Items to Friends?" in I want Sandy:

i understand your suggestion, but i want my friends to share *the exact item* in Sandy. If I send another email, won't it create a duplicate and it won't be linked with the original one I have in my Sandy account?

bluedrums started following the question "I want to configure pagination and grouping when viewing items on the website" in I want Sandy.

bluedrums replied on March 21, 2008 22:08 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'm having the same problem getting a "cannot parse" error from Google Calendar. However, I can easily subscribe to my private feed URL in iCal.

bluedrums 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.

bluedrums replied on February 10, 2008 09:07 to the question "Is there a Mac Dashboard Widget available?" in I want Sandy:

Is there a Sandy api? We in the community could start work on this but there's nothing to write code against, as far as i know...

bluedrums replied on February 06, 2008 22:06 to the problem "bug: @done checkbox causes only page 1 of multiple pages to be seen" in I want Sandy:

Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

bluedrums reported a problem in I want Sandy on February 06, 2008 21:10:

bug: @done checkbox causes only page 1 of multiple pages to be seen

Try this common scenario:

0. Go to Your Stuff - Any type.
1. Select a tag that has more than one page of items.
2. Uncheck the "@done" checkbox. (page updates correctly)
3. Click the "Next -->" link at the top of the page to go to the second page of items.
BUG: Instead of going to the second page, you go back to the first page because the "Next" link caused the "@done" checkbox to be checked again.

This makes it impossible to see the 2nd page of items that are not done. I don't know about you, but I can't see half of the information I have in Sandy right now because of this bug.

bluedrums replied on February 05, 2008 22:09 to the question "How to exclude @done items from the daily digest?" in I want Sandy:

Please make the @done report checkbox "sticky" so that it stays turned off. Right now I have so many done items, that the @done checkbox always "on" makes Sandy impossible to use because I have to manually search through pages of done items.

bluedrums replied on January 21, 2008 06:13 to the question "Can I change my settings so that Done tasks always disappear?" in I want Sandy:

Yes, I noticed today that Sandy's url includes "query strings" (the techie term) for filtering items. This allows us to tweak Sandy until she is showing the correct set of items, then simply bookmark the page. When you click the bookmark in your browser, Sandy will dynamically include any items that match your settings (query). Yay! Kudos to the Sandy team for a simple design consistent with good web app practice.

I don't consider this design issue fixed, but at least there's an elegant workaround.

bluedrums started following the discussion "Updates" in I want Sandy.

bluedrums replied on January 16, 2008 05:28 to the question "Can I change my settings so that Done tasks always disappear?" in I want Sandy:

You can't, yet. I posted this as a design flaw somewhere else on the board as well. The easy software fix would be to make the "Include @done" checkbox "sticky" so that Sandy would remember your last setting whenever you visit the site. The more complicated fix, would be to make a several settings available in the Settings page for whether @done items are included in different areas, like the Daily Digest, in Your Stuff, etc. then make those defaults overridable (stickiness applies) for each session where you visit Sandy. On the next visit, the default settings go into effect again.

bluedrums replied on January 15, 2008 07:11 to the problem "bug: "sort by tag" not working" in I want Sandy:

In an earlier version of Sandy, "Sort By Tag" created a list with headers for each combination of tags (similar to the headers for each Date in "Sort by Date"). Now, I'm not sure what "Sort By Tag" is supposed to be doing as there's no rhyme or reason to the order of the items and no headers are present at all.

bluedrums asked a question in I want Sandy on January 03, 2008 06:11:

How Do I Send Existing "Sandied" Items to Friends?

I have existing items in Sandy that I want other friends to know about. How can I get my friends to "see" these items?

bluedrums replied on January 02, 2008 06:03 to the idea "Organize list information better" in I want Sandy:

Wow. LOVE the new tag browsing. It actually made me like Sandy again :-) This was a game changer for me (this and recurring items). Anyway, just fix the bug so that Sort By Tag works, and make the "@done" setting sticky and we'll be good to go!