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

 

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