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. 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