Best Practices

Best Practices..

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
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.”
Boom
Make it a Habit.

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IIf you enter “future” mileage, you will kinda screw yourself.
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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 a start location 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 zipcode 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.