NEW! Invite your friends

Everyone deserves a personal assistant! That's why Sandy makes it simpler-than-pie to introduce her to friends and share appointments, to-dos, and other details just by Cc'ing her.

Some of you have been asking us to bake invitations right into Sandy's web site so that you can see exactly what Sandy will be mailing off to your friends as well as having the chance to include a note of your own.

And that's just what we've done. At the top of any page on Sandy's web site you'll find a brand new "Invite" link that leads to a brand new "Invite a friend" page.

• Invite one or many friends all in one go.


• A handy "Add from my address book" wizard gives you easy access to your friends' email addresses, wherever they're stored: AOL, Yahoo!, Outlook, Gmail, Plaxo, Palm, ...


• Because you know your friends better than Sandy does, you can choose an invitation template for Sandy to use.


• Enclose a personal note to your friend(s).


• Anyone you invite is added to your Friends list, where you can choose what you would like Sandy to do when when they share something with you.

Give the gift that keeps on reminding!

NEW! Goals: Focus on what's important

Your head has better things to do than to keep track of the myriad details of daily life. Sandy's mission is to remember those details for you, freeing you up to focus on what's important.

And what better way to keep your eye on the prize than to write it down and keep it front-and-center as you go about your day.

To that end, we've carved out a spot in your Daily Digest to add a goal, guiding principle, or inspirational quote that'll appear at the top of your Digest email each morning and alongside your appointments and to-dos on your "Today" page.

My personal inspiration for this week reads: "Anywhere is walking-distance if you have the time."

To add a goal to your Daily Digest, visit http://iwantsandy.com/home, click the "Customize" link, type or paste it into the "Goal, principle, or inspiration" field, and click the "Save" button. Your goal will appear immediately at the top-right of the page and any time you visit your "Today" page thereafter.

UPDATE: Special @goal tag

IF you're among those of Sandy's clients who have already set a goal (Click the "Customize" link on your Daily Digest page at http://iwantsandy.com/home) and are having Sandy keep it front-and-center, you'll love the new @goal tag. Simply tag something with @goal and it'll replace your prior goal and appear in both the web and email versions of your digest. For example:

> Remember "The difference between theory and practice is far greater in practice than in theory" @goal

Peeps are made of people

A Stikkit peep [slang for "person"; also brightly colored, animal-shaped marshmallow treats, but that's neither here nor there] is essentially a contact, a card in your rolodex, an entry in your address book. A peep can be a person or an organization, a villa in Tuscany or emergency numbers for the babysitter — anything for which (or for whom) you want to track phone numbers, addresses, bookmarks, birthdays, notes, and other salient details.

In its new incarnation, a peep is more than a static "address card." It's a dynamic, ever-growing collection of the details you jot down about someone — on any number of stikkits — over time. Mention Susan Miller for the first time along with her phone number, 503-555-1212, in a "Marketing Teleconference" stikkit and Stikkit will create a brand new peep stikkit for her. Jot down Susan's email address a few days later in another stikkit (Send report to Susan Miller at susan@example.com), and Stikkit will automatically add her email address to her Peep stikkit. And so on and so forth.

Stikkit will link to Susan's peep stikkit from every other stikkit in which she's mentioned. And vice-versa: in her peep stikkit will appear links to each of those stikkits.

If you're the sort of person to whom this sounds a lot like lightweight CRM, this will sound a lot like lightweight CRM ;-) Managing the details regarding the important people in one's life is just as crucial as managing one's customers.

The practice of accumulating details about people and places as you get to know and interact with them mimics real life: you'll find just such details in your email inbox, scribbled on scraps of paper, decorating the corners of your whiteboard, and wending their way outside of the four or so lines you're given in your standard paper address book. After all, it's seldom to never that you get to know someone entirely (even their contact details) all at once. And even if you were to — they hand you their business card, for instance — who types or pencils all that in? If anything, you usually choose one or two salient details and summarily ignore the rest.

And so, we invite you to take a peek at the new peeps feature. We think you'll find it as useful as we do. All feedback welcome on the forums, where you'll also find how-to documentation.