Email/SMS Reminders?
Jeff
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Hi. I may have missed this... but wondered if sending SMS/Email reminders was on the list of improvements.
Thanks.
via web
Hi. I may have missed this... but wondered if sending SMS/Email reminders was on the list of improvements.
Thanks.
2 Posted by Vin Thomas on 30 Nov, 2009 06:34 AM
This is on the "What's Next" article.
http://help.nirvanahq.com/faqs/site-updates/whats-next
For me, it is hard to use Nirvana to replace my current system without email/SMS integration. I am interested in this for reminders as well as creating tasks.
3 Posted by Jeff on 30 Nov, 2009 01:18 PM
I don't see it on that page. That's why I asked.
I see the "Email tasks directly into Nirvana Inbox" but nothing about reminders or notifications.
Maye I'm missing something that is obvious to others... different wording.
Guess I am looking for a heading like "Notifications" or something.
Thanks.
4 Posted by Proximo on 30 Nov, 2009 02:50 PM
I agree with Vin 100%.
I can't use Nirvana in a professional environment without the ability to forward emails into the system and the flexibility of SMS. For this reason I have some test task that I use to continue testing Nirvana as it improves, but I don't use it as my GTD system at this time.
Attachments is also mentioned in the "What's Next" article and very vital for me. Most of my task and projects come to me via email and many of them have documentation that I would want to keep with the task when forwarding it to my GTD System.
5 Posted by Jeff on 30 Nov, 2009 03:02 PM
Does anyone know what kind of timeframe we're looking at for some of the updates?
I know dates were removed from the timeline on purpose.
But are we looking at months and months or just like weeks.
I am a Things user currently, wishing they had a good web app and email-to-task support.
I started using Things in their early days and they were making pretty quick updates.
So I felt comfortable continuing to use them even though there were some holes in the "perfect" app.
Since I'm new to Nirvana, can someone please give me a sense of how quickly updates are going live?
I assume some guess could be made based on the previous updates.
Thanks.
6 Posted by Proximo on 30 Nov, 2009 03:19 PM
Jeff,
I know it's a very direct question and maybe hard for Nirvana to answer but I understand where you are coming from. I currently use a service that is good but not specifically designed for GTD, so it's a love/hate relationship at this point.
I have high hopes for Nirvana and would also like to know a time frame. Once some of these things are implemented, I can start looking at using Nirvana as my full time GTD System, which is something I am looking forward too.
Support Staff 7 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 30 Nov, 2009 09:54 PM
I'd say we're tackling about 3-4 "bullets" per month. The priority given to new features is heavily influenced by feedback from our users, including discussions like these. Regarding email/sms reminders, it somehow managed to elude the last draft.
The What's Next page has been updated!
8 Posted by Jeff on 30 Nov, 2009 10:00 PM
Hi Thanks Elbert,
If discussions like these influence the progress of development then let's keep talking! :D
What else could we talk about?
All the great benefits of being able to send in tasks via email and get notices via email.
Way cool stuff!
Ok... I'll let someone else pipe in now. :)
9 Posted by Vin Thomas on 01 Dec, 2009 10:05 PM
If the features are influenced by users, let me say that SMS/Email integration is a MUST!
I would probably move over to Nirvana permanently if you could add that feature.
Next on my list:
Mobile app
Subtasks
Compound Filtering
Smart Lists
Thanks for listening.
Support Staff 10 Posted by Christiane Magee on 20 Apr, 2010 06:20 PM
To answer and resolve the original question of this thread...
Daily Email ticklers can be sent to your email client noting what is in your Today list on a given day. See here for more info:
http://blog.nirvanahq.com/2010/02/19/email-to-inbox-daily-tickers-ssl/
thanks,
C
Christiane Magee closed this discussion on 20 Apr, 2010 06:20 PM.
Vin Thomas re-opened this discussion on 20 Apr, 2010 11:38 PM
11 Posted by Vin Thomas on 20 Apr, 2010 11:38 PM
Daily Ticklers are fine, but not nearly as helpful as SMS/Email reminders for individual tasks. I'd love to see this integrated in some way.
12 Posted by Proximo on 21 Apr, 2010 01:15 AM
I think SMS reminders to my phone are extremely useful because I am chained to my phone.
Support Staff 13 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 24 Apr, 2010 04:33 PM
OK, I'll bite.
Here's the thing... I could see SMS ticklers being a very popular feature, and we'd need to find a way to do this affordably, ergo free or very low $0.xx per sms. Anyone have suggestions for affordable/reliable/international SMS gateways?
Perhaps we should just hook into Twitter and call it a day? Folks could wire up Twitter DM's from Nirvana to blip onto your mobile device of choice... Thoughts?
14 Posted by Vin Thomas on 24 Apr, 2010 09:52 PM
I don't care how it works. I have used twitter integration with both RTM and Toodledo. It works fine. I don't know how well it will catch on with those who don't use twitter.
If you need any beta testers for twitter integration, count me in.
15 Posted by Proximo on 26 Apr, 2010 01:33 PM
Count me in for Twitter beta testing if you go that direction.
16 Posted by Vincent on 23 Aug, 2010 08:43 PM
Is there a way to "jerry rig" reminders?
I know you can "scrape" websites, I wonder if there's a way to write a PHP or CURL app to scrape the website, then drop the content in something like a Google Calendar for Android devices, or iCal for iPhones, then synce, say, 4 times daily.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Support Staff 17 Posted by Elbert McLaughlin on 23 Aug, 2010 08:47 PM
That would be difficult as the entire app is rendered via javascript at runtime. Best bet is to sit tight for a few more weeks for the API. Then you can grab data in any way you wish. :-)