Cool; is there a male equivalent for those of us who don’t swing Sandy’s way? I’ve never liked the MS Office paper clip (or the dog), but Sandy doesn’t seem to be my type, either.

I’ve been using Sandy for a few months now, and it’s really very nice. I liked Stikkit as well, but this reincarnation is quite good.

What you come to really appreciate after a while is the “lookup” command, which is very powerful

That said, the radio silence that the guys behind Sandy/Stikkit fall in to sometimes is somewhat discomforting.

But definitely a great thing to check.

And it is so cool. It takes the “personal assistant” paradigm to the next level. I call Jott and say Sandy and inevitably Sandy does what I expect.

At first I just added the Sandy email in to Jott as a new contact, but that didn’t work (probably because Jott sends html emails, instead of plain text. I had to set Sandy up as a Jott Link which was just as easy as setting her up as a contact. The great thing is that iwantsandy includes directions to set this up under settings (I think)

I am stilling trying t figure out a way to get Sandy to actually pick up my dry cleaning, but to no avail. :(

Not trying to change direction - recently switched to rememberthemilk.com. Very similar - use twitter to send text messages to so they will be added. Very nice if you think when away from a computer but can’t talk.

I signed up but am wary about how many of these sites pop up. See previous comment on rememberthemilk.com. I’m being careful about committing too much to one site to only have it one-upped by another site.

I am very interested in hearing how people are “stacking” these services. I Jott to Sandy and she texts me reminders on my cell. That’s great because it saves me from having to set my own reminder. But it seems to me that this is close to actually being able to do an action. What actions can be done by email — and can Sandy do them?

This is the FIRST reminder / to do / scheduling tool - apart from a basic calendar that I have ever had any success with. And I have found myself actually being polite to Sandy because I am so happy…and I am finding it hard to remember that someone isn’t actually sending me all those reminders.

Is it worrying that I actually put “please” and “thank you” at the end of each of my reminder emails to her? Seems so rude not to really….

One hassle with Sandy is that it only supports text messaging with US based carriers. Hopefully this will change in the future but there is a workaround for non-US users, at least if you have a Symbian operating system (most common in Nokias).

You can use TWITTER and link your Twitter to the FRING.COM (“fring”) symbian applet. fring (small f) allows Symbian users to use the data channel of their GSM phones to make Skype, SkypeOut, SIP and GTalk voice calls. It also supports chat services from Skype, GTalk and Twitter.

So the Twitter chat channel via fring becomes a Sandy channel.

You can see some stuff I wrote about this on the fring.com blog (australia) here )