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Because you’ve seen mention of this method of mileage recording…
we thought you’d like to know what is.
(and be sure to start-with-start… explained below)
All we’re gonna do here is to explain how to speak beSpokn to enter a big ole string of mileage requests all at once… one which basically bundles a bunch of requests into a single beSpokn request. Because that is what a string is.
Back when we conceived of this idea, it was really intended just to help you folks who are procrastinators, or, if you prefer, you busy and distracted people, right? And maybe it’s just cuz you’re really focused. We get it. No judgement here. We designed this method specifically for people who (1) didn’t want to be distracted by any mileage tracking BS during their workday, or their workweek. (2) were gonna be alright with a process to create all their records for a day, or for a week, at a sitting. And preferably on a couch. This buds for you.
Start
A string request begins with the expression “New String.” That’s pretty easy. It’s a string of mileage requests.
The first request
Continue the request either (1) by stating the Travel Date for the request by simply stating a date : “November 12, 2023” or (2) by stating a destination location. In the number 2 instance, the travel date will default to “today”. This is the first record you will create. The starting location defaults to home always. Unlike single string entries.
Adding more requests
To add an additional request, start with the expression “then”. Because that’s how you would talk, right? It works. If you like, and the non-alpha character on your phone screen suits you better, you can say “slash” instead of “then”. Now, your talk-to-text should render “slash” as this character : /. Some people call this “forward slash”, but forward slash doesn’t work so well, I’m told. So just use “slash” if you like this method. Make sure that it renders as shown /. Then state the destination location. You’ve successfully strung together two mileage requests. You can do this again and again until you’re done with your requests.
Works great for sitting down with you old calendar and doing mileage for last year. You can probably do last year’s records in a half-hour. Not five hours. Not ten hours. Not twenty, not fifty.
Changing the Date
You can insert a new date with the expression ‘slash [ new date ] slash. If you have already entered a date, and the new date is in sequence with the date of the previous request, then the normally applied rules for connecting location to location will apply, and the next request will consist of end location which includes the start location pulled from the previous record and the new date. If the dates are not in sequence, then the start for the newly-dated record will default to home.
It looks like this…
“New String September 8, 2024 / [ someplace ] / [ someplace ] / [ someplace ] / [ new date ] / [ someplace ] / [ someplace ]
or like this…
“New String September 8, 2024 then [ someplace ] then [ someplace ] then [ someplace ] then [ new date ] then [ someplace ] /\then [ someplace ]
Be sure to ask for a review of records.
Mileage Pie will not send individual mileage receipts to Stringed record entries. Ask to review. Say :
“Hey, Simon. I’d like to review mileage created today.”
or yesterday
or this week
And one more thing…
Mileage pie will fill in or look for a start location for your record set created by new string method. So, be sure to start with your start included and end with the place where you finally end up. Home, whatever. Mainly, just don’t forget to start with start.
