I want (love) sandy
You just send her an email in plain English stating what you want and she keeps track of stuff for you, sending you and email back whenever some appointment is creeping up in the horizon and a nifty email in the morning with your daily appointments.
So if I send Sandy an email saying “Remind me to attend Shift, october 15-17″ I’ll be getting and email, close to the event, giving me a head’s up about it.
Sandy can keep notes, contacts, bookmarks, lists and notes for you. She can also keep track of reoccurring events (because she understands tags, and anything tagged with @weekly, for example is a weekly event you only have to mail her once about for her to keep track of it)
Sandy can skim through your emails and try to figure out what event you are trying to schedule, so you can even just get her on cc. I play it safe and add something like “Sandy, remind me to do this at <date>/<time>” to the email’s body. she’ll send an email confirming the appointment if you wish (@reply tag)
She also provides a personal rss feed with your calendar, a Twitter account to keep track of things and if you live in the US there’s a good chance she can send you an SMS too.
Some things are just too brilliant not to blog about them.
