I’m in love with Sandy, my secretary

I’ve always wanted a nice secretary who could remind me what to do (and I bet I’m not the only one out there). I have completely fallen in love with Sandy, a very interesting productivity tool that doesn’t require you anything but sending an email with all the instructions written in a simple language, as if you were writing to a human being.

I’ve tested many similar tools before but I’ve always found that their major drawbacks were the absolute lack of simplicity and the extremely mechanical approach. I used to waste a lot of time to set them up and make them work and plus I always felt like I was dealing with something fake.

Fortunately, Sandy is smart enough to listen to me. I just need to send her a short email saying “Remember that I have to buy milk tomorrow at 9am” and she will alert me on time. Additionally, I can snooze reminders by replying to her messages and saying “Remind me tomorrow, next week, in 12 minutes” or whatever I feel like. And guess what? She does it.

Sandy will send reminders to email addresses, Twitter, Jott and mobile phones (US only for now). If you cannot access your mailbox you can send messages straight from Sandy’s website. Moreover, I think that the cutest feature is the one that lets you decide how you want to be called by Sandy by choosing a nickname.

What else to say? Sandy is free to use, efficient and requires no download.

Also, she never complains.