Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant

montbonnot 10 years ago |

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

cthulhujr 10 years ago | |

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

stephaniepier 10 years ago | |

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

mbseid 10 years ago |

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

mtw 10 years ago | |

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

criddell 10 years ago | |

Were you a user of I Want Sandy?

mbseid 10 years ago | | |

I wasn't. What is it?

criddell 10 years ago | | |

A virtual personal assistant based on Twitter / text messages.

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

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

joezydeco 10 years ago | |

How do you share lists between two people/numbers?

mbseid 10 years ago | | |

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

o_____________o 10 years ago | | |

Context would be cool:

send to Joe

> What's Joe's number?

xxx-xxx-xxx

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

mbseid 10 years ago | | |

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

hotdogs 10 years ago | | |

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

mbseid 10 years ago | | |

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

joezydeco 10 years ago | | |

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

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

mbseid 10 years ago | | |

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

chriogenix 10 years ago | | |

this is a good feature

Drdrdrq 10 years ago |

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

spike021 10 years ago | |

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

Procrastes 10 years ago |

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

mbseid 10 years ago | |

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

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

e_tm_ 10 years ago | | |

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

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

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

mbseid 10 years ago | | |

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

leetNightshade 10 years ago |

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

Jonovono 10 years ago | |

Twilio, Nexmo, plivo.

mbseid 10 years ago | | |

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

digital_ins 10 years ago |

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

kozukumi 10 years ago |

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

drvortex 10 years ago |

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

jister 10 years ago |

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

dhruvsachde 10 years ago |

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

mbseid 10 years ago | |

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

Any ideas?

_swa8 10 years ago |

Why is it gendered?

thieving_magpie 10 years ago | |

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

cthulhujr 10 years ago | | |

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

thieving_magpie 10 years ago | | |

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

digital_ins 10 years ago | |

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

wingerlang 10 years ago | |

Why does it matter?

shanecleveland 10 years ago |

Same idea with email: tuduli.com

g4ur4v 10 years ago |

Nice .