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What is the difference between writing that list directly in Notes app? Do I really need a bot to create a list from my list? Curious to see if there's any use case behind just formatting a list into a list.

I thought the same thing - I keep my grocery list in a Google Keep widget. I don't understand what the benefit is here.

This could have more utility for a user with a feature phone. Their notes app is likely more difficult to access, its data not backed up to the "cloud" or just not be a feature at all on the phone.

Hi, I created this tool because I really wanted it. Let me know if there are any features you would love to see. Hope you find it as useful as I do!

How do you share lists between two people/numbers?

I'm rolling out that feature in a few hours. I was a bit ambitions, but it will be `send to {{number}}`. Glad to hear that you found this as an important feature. I think it will be valuable too :)

Context would be cool:

send to Joe

> What's Joe's number?

xxx-xxx-xxx

> Got it, you can just say Joe in the future.

That is very cool idea. I love saving the context there. It may be really cool to send an SMS contact too. That would make it one step less than the copy and paste.

A way to name/share a list (so two people can push to it) would also be cool. I know myself and my s/o would use it to make a shared grocery list.

Yeah, definitely. That is definitely a feature on backlog. Coming soon :)

I was thinking the same thing. It would be great if it was Siri-compatible. Can you handle multiple delineators?

Is "Eggs, bacon, milk" handled the same as "Eggs bacon and milk"?

I just pushed an update to handle that case. It will not delineate commas and new lines as separate items.

this is a good feature

Were you a user of I Want Sandy?

I wasn't. What is it?

A virtual personal assistant based on Twitter / text messages.

http://boingboing.net/2007/11/14/i-want-sandy-perfect.html

http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2014/1/7/i-want-sandy

I like it. are you using it personally? Is the example on the homepage the most common usage?

Interesting - I used to send SMS to myself when I found some music I wanted to check out later... Similar I guess.

I still do this for other kinds of things, even though I'm pretty good about using the iOS/OSX Reminders app.

I love this sort of interface. I want to have a use for it, but I haven't thought of a use case yet.

Try it for your grocery shopping list. That use case is what gave me the idea to build it.

So handy to just shoot a text instead of opening an app and navigating to the right list.

Up front, cool app. I really like this idea as a means of quick storage.

Not sure about the grocery list use case. You have already input your items and they are still visible in your message conversation with Nina, making the response back from Nina redundant in nature.

I tend to email myself article URLs from my phone to my laptop, so I think I will try using Nina for that.

Very Cool. I really like that use case. Works really with with iMessage

How do you get an application like this setup with a phone number and interacting with other numbers? Curious if you have to rely on a particular service with recurring monthly charges or not.

Twilio, Nexmo, plivo.

Yup, I'm using Twilio. Super easy to use and pretty low cost. Not free, but makes life really easy.

I'd be a wee bit careful: Nuance has a virtual assistant that they're calling Nuance. So you've gotta beware of trademark litigation (unless you're Nuance)

Nice idea but I don't really see why I would use this over something like Simplenote that does a fantastic job of syncing a simple text list.

I am wondering if people really use SMS anymore these days. At least here in Europe and also in India, SMS usage has dropped of precipitously.

Okay here's a question. Why would you spend on an SMS just to create an item(s) on your list?

Nice idea, what if I want to save more than one list at a time ?

That feature has been requested a lot and is on the backlog. Just trying to figure out how to make it super easy and intuitive :)

Any ideas?

Why is it gendered?

Is that a problem for you? If so, I'd like to know why.

Perhaps they're questioning the perpetuation of the "women-are-personal-assistants" stereotype? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ah, yeah I could see that being the case. I was just curious.

Why does it matter?

probably because people of both genders are most comfortable having personal assistants of the female gender? (Don't blame the messenger for the message)

Same idea with email: tuduli.com

Nice .

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