Greg's dashboard

Greg started following the idea "Change the type of information from one to another" in I want Sandy.

Greg started following the idea "Link for a new Digest" in I want Sandy.

Greg started following the question "specifying url of todo via email" in I want Sandy.

Greg replied on February 04, 2008 02:07 to the question "Global tag change" in I want Sandy:

As I put more info into Sandy, this feature would really be helpful. Put my vote here as well.

Greg replied on February 04, 2008 02:06 to the question "Scheduling a monthly todo" in I want Sandy:

Norbiq, that's the behavior I see as well. But as you say, with repeating items, there should be a way to mark one instance of it as done and still have the rest show up on the todo list going forward. Hopefully Sandy will add this feature soon:)

Greg replied on February 02, 2008 05:01 to the question "How to exclude @done items from the daily digest?" in I want Sandy:

Thank you!

Greg replied on January 21, 2008 02:05 to the discussion "Anyone using Sandy in thier GTD setup? How?" in I want Sandy:

Unfortunately, while you can do this on the web site by using the advanced filters, Sandy doesn't give you that much control over the Daily Digest. One of the suggestions I've made is to allow such control to make daily digest a complete dashboard for many uses.

Greg replied on January 20, 2008 06:27 to the discussion "Share how you use Sandy" in I want Sandy:

Sandy helps me with lots of things:

- Task and appointment entry (but I use the .ics attachments to also add appointments to my regular calendar)
- Contacts (although adding them could be easier:)
- I also started using the Google Gadget
- GTD project and task tracking
- Miscellaneous Notes (Sandy really shines with this type of info
- Shopping lists
- Wish lists
- Ideas
- Tracking where I've put things ... home / office inventory
- Tracking business expenses (This works great with Jott, with the exception that if I try to put a $$ amount in the Jott message, Sandy interprets that as a date)

Greg replied on January 20, 2008 06:19 to the discussion "Anyone using Sandy in thier GTD setup? How?" in I want Sandy:

Sandy is great for GTD and fairly simple to set up:

- Hard landscape items get a date and appear on Daily Digest Calendar.
- Next Actions are tagged as @todo and Contexts for are handled by appropriate secondary tags: @home @phone @office.......
- Projects are a two step process"
1) I create a project note item (so I can search and categorize them) tagged with @project. For some projects I also add a due date or reminder.
2) I also create a tag with the name of the project such as @fix-faucet and both the main project note item and any items I want to associate with that project get the same tag. (Note for the Sandy folks: Having the ability to globally modify tags for items would be a great help here when things need to be changed)
- For other things like your higher level goals, etc., again just tag them appropriately and you can pull them up when needed, or even better, customize your daily digest so they come to you every day for review.

The only other thing which would make this even more useful is if there was a way to just list the project items and any open tasks so I could easily see which projects don't have an associated Next Action.

So there you have it, easy GTD with Sandy.

Greg replied on January 20, 2008 06:06 to the question "no due date" in I want Sandy:

Hadn't been able to get to this for a while, but I did figure out the mystery. Since I use the abbreviated form of key words with Sandy, what was happening is as follows:

Sending the phrase " R to get milk @todo", the word "to" causes Sandy to interpret this as a reminder, and when she didn't see an associated date, just assigned tomorrow as the due date.

But sending it this way " R get milk @todo" it does do what I want and just get added as an undated todo.

Greg shared an idea in I want Sandy on January 20, 2008 06:00:

Contact Management

There has been some mention of Stikkit type features that would be great for Sandy, and one other that comes to mind was how Stikkit captured contact related info (notes,tasks,etc.) automatically and when you pulled up a contact in Stikkit, you would see a listing of those related alongside the contact. In Sandy, you could just list it below the contact info, but the concept is the same.

Greg started a conversation in I want Sandy on January 20, 2008 05:54:

Kudos

I have to take a second to really offer my congrats to the Sandy team for creating an incredibly useful product. Although her user community is very vocal about feature requests and glitches, even with her imperfections Sandy has been tremendously helpful. I would love to see more premium features coming along in the future like file storage and retrieval, more control over search results, direct sync of calendar and contact info to other products and services, but this is a service that is immediately of value now and holds much promise for the future.

Cheers!

Greg replied on January 20, 2008 05:43 to the idea "Sandy iPhone web app" in I want Sandy:

Hmm, Sandy's keep too quiet on this one. I hope they've got something in the works, and they are just keeping us in suspense.

Greg replied on January 04, 2008 18:35 to the question "no due date" in I want Sandy:

One quick update. It appears Sandy will schedule some things marked @todo, but not others even though neither specify a date or time. Not sure why at this point, but will keep experimenting.

Greg reported a problem in I want Sandy on January 04, 2008 12:59:

odd ball dates

fyi, Sandy seems to be having some trouble this morning with scheduling times. I've gotten responses in PST, UTC, and CST times even though my settings are for EST.

Greg asked a question in I want Sandy on January 04, 2008 12:18:

no due date

When scheduling a todo with Sandy, it appears that if she doesn't see a due date in the message, she will pick a default due date of today. Since I don't always want to schedule a todo on a specific day, I'll have to go on the web site, and take out the due date for those items. I didn't see anything in the guide or forums describing how to add a todo and have no due date included, but would love to have that ability. I could always call the unscheduled todo's something else and have the Daily Digest customized to show them, but just wanted to see if there was another way to do this when sending Sandy a todo.

Greg replied on January 04, 2008 06:16 to the idea "Backup all my data to a file" in I want Sandy:

A big +1 on this.

Greg replied on January 04, 2008 06:15 to the question "what happens to shared items when they are marked @done?" in I want Sandy:

Rael, thanks for sharing you views on this. I've attempted the sharing function and I agree that it should be more seamless. In addition to sharing from an initial email, it would be nice to just select items, or tags on the web site and mark those as shared with selected friends, and then any changes to those items in any of the shared accounts would be reflected in all of them automatically, unless the recipient has chosen to have an unlinked copy of the item.

Greg replied on January 04, 2008 06:09 to the question "How Do I Send Existing "Sandied" Items to Friends?" in I want Sandy:

Well one way is just to query Sandy with the info you want to share and then forward that email to your friends. Sandy also has a rudimentary sharing function as well where you can cc other people on your email requests to Sandy and she'll send out an invitation to them to have the item in the email added to their Sandy database. By using the sharing function it shows the item in their account with a link to your name, but updating this later (and still cc'ing the other person on the update) did not work reliably in my brief attempt at this.

Greg replied on January 02, 2008 17:13 to the question "update a range of digest items?" in I want Sandy:

This would be extremely helpful. Since you can now input multiple commands on new items, I would think this feature would be coming soon as well. +1