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mbseid
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!
joezydeco
How do you share lists between two people/numbers?
mbseid
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
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
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.
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hotdogs
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
Yeah, definitely. That is definitely a feature on backlog. Coming soon :)
joezydeco
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
I just pushed an update to handle that case. It will not delineate commas and new lines as separate items.
mtw
I like it. are you using it personally? Is the example on the homepage the most common usage?
leetNightshade
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
Twilio, Nexmo, plivo.
mbseid
Yup, I'm using Twilio. Super easy to use and pretty low cost. Not free, but makes life really easy.
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Procrastes
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
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_
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
Very Cool. I really like that use case. Works really with with iMessage
Drdrdrq
Interesting - I used to send SMS to myself when I found some music I wanted to check out later... Similar I guess.
spike021
I still do this for other kinds of things, even though I'm pretty good about using the iOS/OSX Reminders app.
montbonnot
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.
stephaniepier
I thought the same thing - I keep my grocery list in a Google Keep widget. I don't understand what the benefit is here.
cthulhujr
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.
liw
Why is it gendered?
thieving_magpie
Is that a problem for you? If so, I'd like to know why.
cthulhujr
Perhaps they're questioning the perpetuation of the "women-are-personal-assistants" stereotype? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
thieving_magpie
Ah, yeah I could see that being the case. I was just curious.
digital_ins
probably because people of both genders are most comfortable having personal assistants of the female gender? (Don't blame the messenger for the message)
kozukumi
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.
dhruvsachde
Nice idea, what if I want to save more than one list at a time ?
mbseid
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?

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