IWantSandy Can Be Your New Assistant

Written by Mark of MeAndMyDrum | Fave MAMD | Subscribe to MAMD

Not quite open to the public just yet, iWantSandy wants to be your personal email assistant.

Just like a real assistant, she’ll help you stay organized, but do so via email. For me, this makes for a sensible approach since we all pretty much email on a regular basis. When you want to set a reminder for something, like say, send a report to someone, you could create a task, but iWantSandy is more interactive than that.

So let’s say you pick up your cell phone or PDA and email Sandy the following message, “remind me to send Bob the weekly status report today at 3pm”. She’ll then email you a reminder at 3pm with that exact message.

Now imagine you’re writing an email to someone else, this time a real person. You can even copy Sandy on it and give her an instruction in that same message, like “Sandy, please remember to [and put whatever you want her to remember for you].” She can even remind the other guy as well and he doesn’t even need an account to do it.

The key to communicating with her is to remember a few simple keywords. You can ask her to lookup things, forget things (stop reminding you), update your tasks, and more. She may act like a real person, but she’s all code.

You always have direct access to your online account, so making changes there may be easier. When she recognizes that you’ve included a contact or calendar event in the email you send her, she’ll send you back an email with an attachment you can use to upload into Microsoft Outlook.

Her service is still in beta, but you can subscribe to me to learn more as I’ll be keeping an eye on things.

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