Remind yourself with Jott
I’ve been using Jott.com for a little while now, and it’s become indispensable to me. I don’t take advantage of everything they offer, I just use it for one thing, and it works really well.
My Powerbook is the only computer I use for work. It’s usually with me, but sometimes it’s just not convenient to pop it open and do something. You know, like when I’m driving. This is where Jott comes in. I’ve got Jott on speed dial and I fire it up and leave myself a message. Couple minutes later it shows up as text in my email inbox, ready to be processed appropriately.
Since Jott does voice to text translation using software, it sometimes garbles the text. No problem. You can always listen to the original message to decipher whatever it was you were reminding yourself about. I’ve been finding that I get good translations about 2/3 of the time. Good enough for me. And it’s free (so far) so there’s no complaining.
I turned a friend onto Jott today and he said he’s been looking for something like this for about a decade! Now if I can only figure out Jott-to-Twitter…
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6 opinions for Remind yourself with Jott
Michael Morton
May 22, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I think Jott is great!
When I’m in a bookstore and see an interesting marketing or career book, I whipout my cell phone and Jott myself. I don’t have a fancy PDA and I’m not the type of person to carry around my Macbook. So Jott has become a very useful tool for me.
Mark
May 23, 2007 at 5:17 pm
The guys at Big in Japan have bridged the Jott/Twitter gap with Egorcast: http://egorcast.com/
Bren
May 23, 2007 at 9:36 pm
@Mark: Sweet! Works perfectly, gracias!
DrHogie
May 24, 2007 at 12:28 pm
If you’re a user of BackPack, you can also look into using http://celltell.tv — you call CellTell on your cell phone, and within minutes you have a VoiceNote waiting on your BackPack homepage. It won’t transcribe to text, but when you’re cleaning out your Inbox homepage, the voicenote is there playable in a Flash app. I’ve found myself using this all the time recently.
clkl
May 25, 2007 at 8:24 am
I just posted about how much I love Jott - especially for posting to my blog. I set up a “my blog” Jott recipient, so I can send blog drafts directly to my blog folder! It works like a charm.
It’s funny to read some of the misunderstood words they transcribe.
I’m getting trained to leave better voice mail messages on other people’s answering services, by reading transcripts of my rambling driving thoughts…
Robert
Jun 3, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Shainemata.net has a good write-up on how to use Jott to send new tasks to your Vitalist Inbox. I found it here.
Pretty cool way to add new to-dos on the road.