# EchoSistant - The Week In Review **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Created SmartApps\ **Created:** [May 20, 2017, 4:39am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/echosistant-the-week-in-review/87821 "2017-05-20T04:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![bamarayne](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/smartthings/user_avatar/community.smartthings.com/bamarayne/32/18206_2.png) [@bamarayne](https://community.smartthings.com/u/bamarayne)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2017, 7:05am UTC](https://community.smartthings.com/t/echosistant-the-week-in-review/87821/6 "2017-05-27T07:05:01Z")
This is the first step in major advancements for EchoSistant and you! > [@\[OBSOLETE\] RemindR ~ don’t miss an important event!](https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-remindr-don-t-miss-an-important-event/88399): > > [image] RemindR: Current Version 1.0 Release: R.0.0.9 Release Date: June, 15 2017 Notes: added option to select multiple intro sounds before tts; added compatibility with Ask Alexa Message Queues On March 18th [EchoSistant Evolved](https://community.smartthings.com/t/release-echosistant-evolved-amazon-echos-only-assistant-with-robust-scheduling-and-flexible-reporting/81849) was released to the public, as the only SmartThings app to use flexible Cron expressions to schedule recurring events. Shortly thereafter, the Notifications Add-on became one of the most popular features (besides making voice interactions with Alexa more natural). So much so that other developers are now starting to implement cron expressions to improve the reliability of their schedules. In the past few months, the EchoSistant team has received several requests to make the scheduling app available to everyone, so that even people with no Alexa devices can… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.smartthings.com/t/echosistant-the-week-in-review/87821)._