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Best Practices
- If you’ve familiarized yourself with the whole “Simon” thing, then you know you can talk to Simon, you can create mileage records and you can order reports. There isn’t much more that you really need, but there is a lot more that you can do. You can get it by reading the guidance. You can read all of the guidance. Whatever. Just don’t sweat it. You know enough right now.
- If it’s like this for you – the guidance is like the instruction book from IKEA? NP. We put a nugget of guidance in every record that you see. Bite-size training that you can consume as you wish. So you can do it your way. In the meantime >
- Record mileage while you’re pumping gas, walking through the door at the doctor’s office, waiting for somebody to arrive. You don’t have to make the time. It’s already there. Now…
- Create a contact for your phone ( we said this once and we’re repeating it )
- Name the Contact “Speaking”… assuming you don’t already know somebody named Speaking. Include an email for Speaking : Speaking@MileagePie.com.
- Now, when you are in your car, you can easily do the hands-free thing by say ‘Siri send a message to Speaking.”
- (What would you like to say?) “I’m going to Dodger Stadium.”
- Make it a Habit.
- If you are using a Dynamic Mileage type, providing the right amount of information is important. You can obtain great mileage results from Place Names, but it important to understand their proper use. For instance… If you just say “Simon I’m going to the Dairy Queen…” There are a lot of Dairy Queens.
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If you enter “future” mileage, you will kinda mess up.
Don’t do it
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- Did you forget where you went last, or what your last mileage was? Well…what was your last message? As it turns out, you’re never in the dark about things that matter…
- If your personal style is procrastination… You know, it’s best you just roll with this stuff. We all know that this is the style of people who have lot’s of important things. And we’ve got a beSpokn styled just for you. It’s a style that starts with “New string…” and which you include all of your travel destinations for the entire day. So, if you want, you can pause in your evening and create all of your mileage records for the day with one request. This is a premium feature.
- Note this and remember that when we return the mileage record, a summary of the record is in the subject line. So if your inbox is set up okay, this means you can proof the record from the subject. If something’s wrong, open, fix and return. Delete the email if it’s fine.
- Just maybe create an inbox folder for Mileage Pie records and create an email rule to automatically route the emails to folder?
- Now you can proof the records in your own sweet time
- And you can do ’em all at once
- All you have to do is read the subject line
- or it just becomes part of that regular grind where you scan all your emails for junk. Your choice.
- Correcting a record.
- For records that are complete, changing the record is accomplished by replying to the record email and entering a new value in either Fix Start or Fix End, depending upon what you are fixing.
- The other option is to trash the record and make a new one.
- It is not a bad practice to review your recent records as a collection. Receive a collection of recent records by requesting “Simon, review my mileage”. Maybe do this every week, or once a month, depending on how many records you create.
- Fix an open end record ( missing a start location ) by adding new start or new end and returning
- Maybe you’ve noticed that we can create Mileage records by including a Place Name. This works for prominent places. Otherwise, you need to use addresses. A full address will usually include a street number and Street Name, a City and a State ( or a zip code in place of the city and state)
- Sometimes a Place Name will stand by itself. For instance, Yankee Stadium. Believe it or not, there’s only one of those. Others, not so much. We’ll probably find your local Walmart without a full Street Address, but we’ll need the city and state.
- You can create your own custom locations, as in, for instance, if you frequently travel to a customer’s home, and their name is Zeigler, you can create a Named Location called “Zeiglers” without having to enter their address every time. This is a premium feature.
