There are a couple of different web-based applications I have tested for help in organizing tasks and increasing productivity.
One of the funner apps I have tried and actually one of the simpler ones has been “I Want Sandy”.
Sandy is like my personal assistant that I communicate with by email. I send emails of tasks, appointments, and reminders that I want to remember. Sandy is pretty intuitive about the whole thing, which is handy. Handy Sandy… cool, that rhymes, eh… I digress.
So if I want to remember my daughter has piano lessons on Monday at 5pm (which is sad because I really do truly need reminders for stuff like that) I just send Sandy an email saying Remind me about my daughters piano lessons on Monday at 5pm.
Then Sandy will remind me. About 15 minutes before my daughters piano less, Sandy sends me an email and a text message to my blackberry to remind me.
Sandy also keeps track of things I want to remember in general. Not just things that have a “deadline” or time frame. I can email Sandy and say “remember to buy milk at the store” or “remember new friends phone number 333-4444″ and Sandy will remember these notes for me. She will even remember grocery lists or wish lists or things to blog about lists for me.
In my opinion, I Want Sandy is really straight forward and simple to use, which in my book is one of its pluses. Some folks complain it isn’t feature rich enough and there is another service which I would recommend to them (and which I will talk about tomorrow)but for simple, straight-forward, and effective reminders, Sandy does a great job.
Plus, I want Sandy is just so dog gone easy to use. I just write an email. Easy. To get reminders I just send an email that says “lookup”. “lookup grocery list” or “look up book” or “look up phone number” and Sandy will send me all my reminders with the words “grocery list” or “book” or “phone number”. Easy. I can write “lookup next weeks appointments” and Sandy sends me an email with all of next week’s appointments. Like I said, easy.
I mean really, what is easier than sending a short email? If you are on a computer or a mobile phone with internet, there really isn’t much that is easier than a short email.
(And since this site is all about organizing your “computer” for success… then I assume you spend a lot of time on a computer of some sort.)
Another plus for Sandy in my opinion is how well it works with Jott. Oh, and twitter. I love to twitter and anything that works well with twitter is pretty cool in my book. But those are topics for another post. 
I Want Sandy is free and easy to try. If you want to get organized with your very own free personal assistant, why not give Sandy a try? I Want Sandy
post notes:
I make no money at all from recommending I Want Sandy.
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