RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi, I have not tried this, but I think you just say to Siri something like, Remind me to do a shopping list when I get home. Or, Remind me to take out the trash when I leave home. Now, if she waits until you are already away from home, that isn't much help. And, as I said, I have not tried this, but I would think it would work. Neal -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wren Langley Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2015 5:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi all, and Nancy to their Ellen pack and Nelly I hope I pronounced it right forwards some tips from an iPhone tip of the day there is one that tells how to set up location reminders for Siri if you can't find it let me know and I will forward it to you. God bless, Wren Langley Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Nancy Badger nancybad...@icloud.com wrote: Can anyone talk about how they send location based reminders through Siri? I have never been able to get this to work. Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT Chattanooga Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. On Apr 16, 2015, at 1:40 AM, M. Taylor mk...@ucla.edu wrote: Hello Sieghard, Ok, I just tried settings several reminders which include a both a reminder time and a target time, said target to be written in the actual reminder. Siri got it right, each time. For example, I said the following in one breath: Remind me on Saturday at 1pm to go to the store at 2pm. Siri replied with, Okay, here is your reminder for Saturday at 1pm, it says, Go to the store at 2pm. I used several variations including creating reminders to call someone at a specific time and in each instance, Siri got it right, including the reminder time and the actual target time which was written in the text of the reminder field. As far as I can tell, one must state the reminder with both times in one breath or, that is to say, without a pause. Mark From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said Yes to create it SIRI just said I added this to your list which means it s in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says Dentist appointment . In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I
Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi all, and Nancy to their Ellen pack and Nelly I hope I pronounced it right forwards some tips from an iPhone tip of the day there is one that tells how to set up location reminders for Siri if you can't find it let me know and I will forward it to you. God bless, Wren Langley Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2015, at 12:36 PM, Nancy Badger nancybad...@icloud.com wrote: Can anyone talk about how they send location based reminders through Siri? I have never been able to get this to work. Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT Chattanooga Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. On Apr 16, 2015, at 1:40 AM, M. Taylor mk...@ucla.edu wrote: Hello Sieghard, Ok, I just tried settings several reminders which include a both a reminder time and a target time, said target to be written in the actual reminder. Siri got it right, each time. For example, I said the following in one breath: “Remind me on Saturday at 1pm to go to the store at 2pm.” Siri replied with, “Okay, here is your reminder for Saturday at 1pm, it says, “Go to the store at 2pm.”” I used several variations including creating reminders to call someone at a specific time and in each instance, Siri got it right, including the reminder time and the actual target time which was written in the text of the reminder field. As far as I can tell, one must state the reminder with both times in one breath or, that is to say, without a pause. Mark From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying “Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said “Yes” to create it SIRI just said “I added this to your list” which means it’s in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don’t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time
Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Can anyone talk about how they send location based reminders through Siri? I have never been able to get this to work. Nancy Badger, Ph.D Assistant Vice Chancellor, Student Services UT Chattanooga Sent from my iPhone with dictation software. Please excuse spelling errors. On Apr 16, 2015, at 1:40 AM, M. Taylor mk...@ucla.edu wrote: Hello Sieghard, Ok, I just tried settings several reminders which include a both a reminder time and a target time, said target to be written in the actual reminder. Siri got it right, each time. For example, I said the following in one breath: “Remind me on Saturday at 1pm to go to the store at 2pm.” Siri replied with, “Okay, here is your reminder for Saturday at 1pm, it says, “Go to the store at 2pm.”” I used several variations including creating reminders to call someone at a specific time and in each instance, Siri got it right, including the reminder time and the actual target time which was written in the text of the reminder field. As far as I can tell, one must state the reminder with both times in one breath or, that is to say, without a pause. Mark From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying “Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said “Yes” to create it SIRI just said “I added this to your list” which means it’s in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don’t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards
Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi all, I have also noticed something very disappointing about Siri. You can hardly say anything to her without being cut off you barely get a few words out and she's gone or at least she won't let you say anymore. Sometimes I can only get two or three words out and she cuts me off. I have done this with text message notes and reminders. Thank you all for the nice messages about what Siri is not doing. These are always good to learn from. God bless, Wren Langley Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Neal Ewers neal.ew...@ravenswood.org wrote: Hi, While I have at least solved the Siri reminder for me, see my last email on this, I do find that Siri is becoming less useful. More and more, I use Google. Obviously, Google won’t open apps for me, set alarms, etc., but for non-device specific things I want to know, Google is now more often able to answer my questions. I find that sometimes Siri will, but the way you have to ask her something can sometimes seem rather picky. Example. During the NCAA basketball tournament, I wanted to know when the Wisconsin Badger game with Kentucky was on. So I asked, “What time to the Wisconsin Badgers play Kentucky today?” She didn’t know. I thought I remembered the time, so I asked, “Who is playing basketball at 8:15 PM today?” She said, “Wisconsin is playing at 8:15 today.” Now, I ask you, how silly is that? So since she knew the answer to that and not to when the badgers were playing, she knew half the answer I needed. So, I have now started referring to her as Siri half wit. The one good thing about Siri these days is that Apple allows Google to be put on the IDevice. Come on Apple, it’s not that you can’t do it. Siri used to be better. What goes here? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of carol.pearso...@googlemail.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:13 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Ugh! I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't manage those alarms now, well ... Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Maybe we need to start pressing in on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch. Carol P - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed
Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi, You can hold down the home button while you talk to Siri and release it when you are finished talking. Robert Carter On Apr 17, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Chris Smart csma...@cogeco.ca wrote: yeah, no problems noticed here so far. At 12:01 PM 4/17/2015, you wrote: Wren, you have to be careful not to pause too long or she will think you have finished. Myself, I have not noticed any difference in her timing for a while, but perhaps I don’t give her time to cut me off. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wren Langley Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:22 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi all, I have also noticed something very disappointing about Siri. You can hardly say anything to her without being cut off you barely get a few words out and she's gone or at least she won't let you say anymore. Sometimes I can only get two or three words out and she cuts me off. I have done this with text message notes and reminders. Thank you all for the nice messages about what Siri is not doing. These are always good to learn from. God bless, Wren Langley Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Neal Ewers mailto:neal.ew...@ravenswood.orgneal.ew...@ravenswood.org wrote: Hi, While I have at least solved the Siri reminder for me, see my last email on this, I do find that Siri is becoming less useful. More and more, I use Google. Obviously, Google won’t open apps for me, set alarms, etc., but for non-device specific things I want to know, Google is now more often able to answer my questions. I find that sometimes Siri will, but the way you have to ask her something can sometimes seem rather picky. Example. During the NCAA basketball tournament, I wanted to know when the Wisconsin Badger game with Kentucky was on. So I asked, “What time to the Wisconsin Badgers play Kentucky today?†She didn’t know. I thought I remembered the time, so I asked, “Who is playing basketball at 8:15 PM today?†She said, “Wisconsin is playing at 8:15 today.†Now, I ask you, how silly is that? So since she knew the answer to that and not to when the badgers were playing, she knew half the answer I needed. So, I have now started referring to her as Siri half wit. The one good thing about Siri these days is that Apple allows Google to be put on the IDevice. Come on Apple, it’s not that you can’t do it. Siri used to be better. What goes here? Neal From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mailto:carol.pearso...@googlemail.comcarol.pearso...@googlemail.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:13 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Ugh! I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't manage those alarms now, well ... Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Maybe we need to start pressing in on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch. Carol P - Original Message - From: mailto:siegh...@live.caSieghard Weitzel To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment†. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday†and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM†or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour†or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi Robert. Good strategy. You can certainly use this in reminders etc. However this will not work when one is dictating a message with the dictate button. Neal -Original Message- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ROBERT CARTER Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 1:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, You can hold down the home button while you talk to Siri and release it when you are finished talking. Robert Carter On Apr 17, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Chris Smart csma...@cogeco.ca wrote: yeah, no problems noticed here so far. At 12:01 PM 4/17/2015, you wrote: Wren, you have to be careful not to pause too long or she will think you have finished. Myself, I have not noticed any difference in her timing for a while, but perhaps I don’t give her time to cut me off. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wren Langley Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:22 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi all, I have also noticed something very disappointing about Siri. You can hardly say anything to her without being cut off you barely get a few words out and she's gone or at least she won't let you say anymore. Sometimes I can only get two or three words out and she cuts me off. I have done this with text message notes and reminders. Thank you all for the nice messages about what Siri is not doing. These are always good to learn from. God bless, Wren Langley Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Neal Ewers mailto:neal.ew...@ravenswood.orgneal.ew...@ravenswood.org wrote: Hi, While I have at least solved the Siri reminder for me, see my last email on this, I do find that Siri is becoming less useful. More and more, I use Google. Obviously, Google won’t open apps for me, set alarms, etc., but for non-device specific things I want to know, Google is now more often able to answer my questions. I find that sometimes Siri will, but the way you have to ask her something can sometimes seem rather picky. Example. During the NCAA basketball tournament, I wanted to know when the Wisconsin Badger game with Kentucky was on. So I asked, “What time to the Wisconsin Badgers play Kentucky today? She didn’t know. I thought I remembered the time, so I asked, “Who is playing basketball at 8:15 PM today? She said, “Wisconsin is playing at 8:15 today. Now, I ask you, how silly is that? So since she knew the answer to that and not to when the badgers were playing, she knew half the answer I needed. So, I have now started referring to her as Siri half wit. The one good thing about Siri these days is that Apple allows Google to be put on the IDevice. Come on Apple, it’s not that you can’t do it. Siri used to be better. What goes here? Neal From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mailto:carol.pearso...@googlemail.comcarol.pearso...@googlemail.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:13 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Ugh! I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't manage those alarms now, well ... Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Maybe we need to start pressing in on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch. Carol P - Original Message - From: mailto:siegh...@live.caSieghard Weitzel To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment . In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Wren, you have to be careful not to pause too long or she will think you have finished. Myself, I have not noticed any difference in her timing for a while, but perhaps I don’t give her time to cut me off. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wren Langley Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:22 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi all, I have also noticed something very disappointing about Siri. You can hardly say anything to her without being cut off you barely get a few words out and she's gone or at least she won't let you say anymore. Sometimes I can only get two or three words out and she cuts me off. I have done this with text message notes and reminders. Thank you all for the nice messages about what Siri is not doing. These are always good to learn from. God bless, Wren Langley Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Neal Ewers neal.ew...@ravenswood.org wrote: Hi, While I have at least solved the Siri reminder for me, see my last email on this, I do find that Siri is becoming less useful. More and more, I use Google. Obviously, Google won’t open apps for me, set alarms, etc., but for non-device specific things I want to know, Google is now more often able to answer my questions. I find that sometimes Siri will, but the way you have to ask her something can sometimes seem rather picky. Example. During the NCAA basketball tournament, I wanted to know when the Wisconsin Badger game with Kentucky was on. So I asked, “What time to the Wisconsin Badgers play Kentucky today?” She didn’t know. I thought I remembered the time, so I asked, “Who is playing basketball at 8:15 PM today?” She said, “Wisconsin is playing at 8:15 today.” Now, I ask you, how silly is that? So since she knew the answer to that and not to when the badgers were playing, she knew half the answer I needed. So, I have now started referring to her as Siri half wit. The one good thing about Siri these days is that Apple allows Google to be put on the IDevice. Come on Apple, it’s not that you can’t do it. Siri used to be better. What goes here? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of carol.pearso...@googlemail.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:13 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Ugh! I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't manage those alarms now, well ... Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Maybe we need to start pressing in on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch. Carol P - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members
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yeah, no problems noticed here so far. At 12:01 PM 4/17/2015, you wrote: Wren, you have to be careful not to pause too long or she will think you have finished. Myself, I have not noticed any difference in her timing for a while, but perhaps I don’t give her time to cut me off. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Wren Langley Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 8:22 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi all, I have also noticed something very disappointing about Siri. You can hardly say anything to her without being cut off you barely get a few words out and she's gone or at least she won't let you say anymore. Sometimes I can only get two or three words out and she cuts me off. I have done this with text message notes and reminders. Thank you all for the nice messages about what Siri is not doing. These are always good to learn from. God bless, Wren Langley Sent from my iPhone On Apr 16, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Neal Ewers mailto:neal.ew...@ravenswood.orgneal.ew...@ravenswood.org wrote: Hi, While I have at least solved the Siri reminder for me, see my last email on this, I do find that Siri is becoming less useful. More and more, I use Google. Obviously, Google won’t open apps for me, set alarms, etc., but for non-device specific things I want to know, Google is now more often able to answer my questions. I find that sometimes Siri will, but the way you have to ask her something can sometimes seem rather picky. Example. During the NCAA basketball tournament, I wanted to know when the Wisconsin Badger game with Kentucky was on. So I asked, “What time to the Wisconsin Badgers play Kentucky today?†She didn’t know. I thought I remembered the time, so I asked, “Who is playing basketball at 8:15 PM today?†She said, “Wisconsin is playing at 8:15 today.†Now, I ask you, how silly is that? So since she knew the answer to that and not to when the badgers were playing, she knew half the answer I needed. So, I have now started referring to her as Siri half wit. The one good thing about Siri these days is that Apple allows Google to be put on the IDevice. Come on Apple, it’s not that you can’t do it. Siri used to be better. What goes here? Neal From: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mailto:carol.pearso...@googlemail.comcarol.pearso...@googlemail.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:13 AM To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Ugh! I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't manage those alarms now, well ... Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Maybe we need to start pressing in on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch. Carol P - Original Message - From: mailto:siegh...@live.caSieghard Weitzel To: mailto:viphone@googlegroups.comviphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment†. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday†and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM†or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour†or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian†. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian†. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30â
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There's been something strange going on with reminders app for a while. I used to say, Set a reminder for July 3rd. Then it would prompt me to say what I wanted to be reminded about. I would then say, I have a dental appointment tomorrow at 2 P.M. Siri would repeat it, then I'd confirm it, and the day before my appointment I would be reminded. Now when I do this for some reason Siri will not repeat the time of my appointment, and the reminder time will be set for whatever time I have createdit, but it would be right for the specified date. Yesterday I tried to set a reminder and it kept saying OK, I will remind you on sunda at 11:49. no matter what time I specified the time to be reminded. _ From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said Yes to create it SIRI just said I added this to your list which means it's in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don't know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can't say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says Dentist appointment. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday and then Skype call with Brian at 8 AM or Skype call with Brian in 1 hour or I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called Skype call with Brian. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying Skype call with Brian in 30 and I guess not saying 30 minutes confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed
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Ugh! I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't manage those alarms now, well ... Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Maybe we need to start pressing in on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch. Carol P - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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Hi, While I have at least solved the Siri reminder for me, see my last email on this, I do find that Siri is becoming less useful. More and more, I use Google. Obviously, Google won’t open apps for me, set alarms, etc., but for non-device specific things I want to know, Google is now more often able to answer my questions. I find that sometimes Siri will, but the way you have to ask her something can sometimes seem rather picky. Example. During the NCAA basketball tournament, I wanted to know when the Wisconsin Badger game with Kentucky was on. So I asked, “What time to the Wisconsin Badgers play Kentucky today?” She didn’t know. I thought I remembered the time, so I asked, “Who is playing basketball at 8:15 PM today?” She said, “Wisconsin is playing at 8:15 today.” Now, I ask you, how silly is that? So since she knew the answer to that and not to when the badgers were playing, she knew half the answer I needed. So, I have now started referring to her as Siri half wit. The one good thing about Siri these days is that Apple allows Google to be put on the IDevice. Come on Apple, it’s not that you can’t do it. Siri used to be better. What goes here? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of carol.pearso...@googlemail.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:13 AM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Ugh! I'm really getting quite disappointed with Siri and, if he/she can't manage those alarms now, well ... Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Maybe we need to start pressing in on some of Siri's behaviour as I don't think it's really coming up to scratch. Carol P - Original Message - From: Sieghard Weitzel mailto:siegh...@live.ca To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 3:43 AM Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying “Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said “Yes” to create it SIRI just said “I added this to your list” which means it’s in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don’t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Sieghard. You are right. The one I tried worked, but when I spaced the times out for a couple hours, it didn’t work. It kept wanting to remind me at the later time. I’ll do some more playing to see if I can find a way to trick Siri. But then again, the Apple in the sky always thinks it knows best. We shall see about that. Smile. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying “Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said “Yes” to create it SIRI just said “I added this to your list” which means it’s in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don’t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
OK, Try this. I said to Siri. At 9 o’clock A M tomorrow remind me to call my wife at 11:AM. She said she would remind me at 9:00 AM. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ron Pelletier Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:19 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Sieghard, The problem is that SIRI is getting a little too smart for its own good. Now that you’ve tricked it once, you know how to do it and you taught us all! Good going! Ron Danvers From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed
Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi, I have noticed exactly the same thing. I am using the calendar to do something similar. However this is not as easy as the old Siri. Max. On 16 Apr 2015, at 12:43 pm, Sieghard Weitzel siegh...@live.ca wrote: Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hello Sieghard, Ok, I just tried settings several reminders which include a both a reminder time and a target time, said target to be written in the actual reminder. Siri got it right, each time. For example, I said the following in one breath: “Remind me on Saturday at 1pm to go to the store at 2pm.” Siri replied with, “Okay, here is your reminder for Saturday at 1pm, it says, “Go to the store at 2pm.”” I used several variations including creating reminders to call someone at a specific time and in each instance, Siri got it right, including the reminder time and the actual target time which was written in the text of the reminder field. As far as I can tell, one must state the reminder with both times in one breath or, that is to say, without a pause. Mark From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying “Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said “Yes” to create it SIRI just said “I added this to your list” which means it’s in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don’t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone
Re: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Setting Reminders with Siri ... This is what I did. I said “Remind me on Sunday at 6:00 that I have a program to watch at 8”. When writing that down, I just realized that I didn’t specify a.m. or p.m., so there’s no telling when she’ll remind me! I’ll let you know! Thanks for all the great help and suggestions. Blessings, Susan Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. From: Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:25 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Sieghard. You are right. The one I tried worked, but when I spaced the times out for a couple hours, it didn’t work. It kept wanting to remind me at the later time. I’ll do some more playing to see if I can find a way to trick Siri. But then again, the Apple in the sky always thinks it knows best. We shall see about that. Smile. Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi Neal, Now, that is interesting. I just tried your wording and that worked, But when I tried it by saying “Remind me on Monday at 7:30 AM that I have a Skype Call with Brian at 8 AM it just repeated that ver betum and when I said “Yes” to create it SIRI just said “I added this to your list” which means it’s in my list but not so that at 7:30 it reminds me. Maybe I am doing something wrong and you can maybe try to set a reminder for a date a few days in the future and see if that works for you. Something like my example, Remind me at a certain date and time about an event that same day but maybe an hour or 2 later. As I said, this always used to work if you did it in 2 parts, first tell SIRI you want a reminder on a certain date and time and second tell it what you want the reminder to say including the time when your appointment is or that it is in 1 hour, for example. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Neal Ewers Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 8:00 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don’t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post
Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can't say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says Dentist appointment. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday and then Skype call with Brian at 8 AM or Skype call with Brian in 1 hour or I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called Skype call with Brian. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying Skype call with Brian in 30 and I guess not saying 30 minutes confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi, If I say to Siri, Remind me at 9:50 PM to lock the door at 10:00, She will remind me at 9:50 to do just that. I don’t know of a way to have her Remind me again at 10:00, but at least I can get the early time reminder this way. Does this help? Neal From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 9:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
RE: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful
Hi Sieghard, The problem is that SIRI is getting a little too smart for its own good. Now that you’ve tricked it once, you know how to do it and you taught us all! Good going! Ron Danvers From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 10:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Setting reminders with SIRI has become less useful Hi, Just thought I write about something I noticed recently although I can’t say exactly when this started. I used to be able to set a reminder with SIRI in a way that if I wanted to be reminded an hour or so before the appointment or whatever I was reminding myself about, I would simply do it in two parts like this: Part 1: Set a reminder for Monday at 8 AM SIRI would then say OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about. I would then do the second part like this example: Part 2: Dentist appointment at 10 AM SIRI would then confirm: Here is your reminder for Monday at 8 AM, it says: Dentist appointment at 10 AM. Now if I ask SIRI to create a reminder as in part 1 and then tell it what I have above in part 2, the reply will be this: Here is your reminder for Monday at 10 AM, it says “Dentist appointment”. In other words it takes the time I want to hear the reminder before the event and adds it to the time I want to be reminded at to create a reminder at the time of the event. I find this very annoying since I always like to remind myself a bit before and to have the actual time of my appointment or phone call or whatever it is as part of the reminder. Just now I wanted to set a reminder about a Skype call I have at 8 AM on Monday. I tried to trick it into doing it by saying it differently like “Set a reminder at 7 AM on Monday” and then “Skype call with Brian at 8 AM” or “Skype call with Brian in 1 hour” or “I have a Skype call in 60 minutes with Brian”. Each time it figured out that my Skype call was 1 hour from 7 AM and wanted to create a reminder for 8 AM just called “Skype call with Brian”. I finally tricked it by setting the reminder for 7:30 AM and saying “Skype call with Brian in 30” and I guess not saying “30 minutes” confused it enough. Do I have better things to do than to try and be smarter than SIRI? *smile*. Regards, Sieghard -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups VIPhone group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
