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0 pointsanonymouse0085y ago0 comments

That's actually a whole different user flow -- you leave the notification to enter a separate system of controls with esoteric commands, over just typing what you want to happen..

"Stop" - forever until I want you back

"Stop this week" - self-explanatory

"Not during work hours" - also ^

"Consolidate weekly" - get a digest

"I don't care" - make better suggestions

So many contextual pieces to make better notifications are right there... and though a toggle button appears to be 'easier' the cognitive dissonance is less the conversational environment of SMS.

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ceejayoz5y ago· 1 in thread

Texting "stop this week" will stop SMSes from that number forever because of the STOP keyword.

I've never seen any SMS system that would correctly interpret and adjust to things like "not during work hours" or "consolidate weekly" responses.

anonymouse008OP5y ago

> I've never seen any SMS system that would correctly interpret and adjust to things like "not during work hours" or "consolidate weekly" responses.

I know!! I built a stupid simple bot for myself that just reminds me of things I want in SMS form... I text it things like 'For tomorrow - x, y, z' and then 9am the next day it messages with what's behind '-'...

There's a bit of configuration the first time you text the bot, for timezones and things like what does tomorrow afternoon mean to me? 2pm or 3pm? If multiple 'tomorrow afternoons come' do you want that as a digest or just individually, or w/e.

But for me, I love it because I forget things so quickly, so as I quickly as I can send a text, I can get reminded at an appropriate time. (and yes, I hate reminder apps.)

I'm still struggling how to keep it 'safe' - because Twilio keeps all the message data in plain text (more a byproduct of SMS) and holds a record of it, so while I can encrypt the db entries, I'm not sure how to make it 'secure' for other folks yet.

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