I was going over some to-do list stuff in my head the other day while I was driving, and I kept forgetting the first thing I thought of by the time I got to the next thing! Then when I got into the office, it all went away when I had to jump into whatever was going on there…so much for remembering what I needed to do! Should I buy a pocket voice recorder? I can’t really type fast enough on my Treo 650 to make that useful while thinking fast (not while driving, anyway). But today on the Church IT Podcast someone mentioned Jott. It’s free (first plus!) and it does several things. The most useful is just to call their phone number, they recognize you based on Caller ID, and then you just say who you want to send a Jott to (“me” works) and then record up to a 30 minute message that is transcribed with voice recognition software and emailed to you (or whoever you sent it to).
It’s just what I was looking for, and I’m looking forward to using this a lot in the near future! Great timing, and I learn so much new stuff every Church IT Podcast I can’t recommend it highly enough if you’re in Church IT!
Jott is indeed an amazing tool. Just tested it. Given the ability to receive blog posts over email, I can see this being used to “dictate” blogs. So much for the keyboard.
I do think blogging via Jott is an interesting concept, but my understanding is that there is a 30 second limit on Jott messages. So I’m guessing the blog post can’t be much longer than our two comments put together. I’m not sure about the Jott signature either, that might need to be edited out by hand later. I might give it a try though.
I should add to my post that I’ve since found out that there are actual humans (as opposed to non-actual humans?) doing at least some of the transcribing of messages, although anonymously. This is good for accuracy, but you might want to be careful what you send to your spouse via Jott…
David, your note on Jott is just the extra I needed from the podcast. I’m hooked!
Glad to hear it…I signed up for Jott while still on the podcast :-) I’ve used it for reminders on my way into work so I didn’t forget by the time I got there (I listen to podcasts so nuggets come often and leave my brain quickly).
And I just used it tonight at the grocery store, for example, because there was a Redbox kiosk with a number to text message with a word to get a free one-night movie rental (normally $1 + tax). I wanted to pass it on to my family so I Jotted the number and keyword to myself. Worked great! I think I’ll use it even more when I get used to thinking about it being available. And I haven’t used it to send Jotts to others much, yet. I’d almost rather Jott myself a reminder to email someone later, or just use my Treo for the email if it’s short enough and time-sensitive.
Jott is GREAT! Thanks, David and Tony, for spreading the word!
Good News and Bad News for us Jotters. Good – Jott is out if beta. Bad – Jotting contacts and certain services – Google Calendar, Remember The Milk, 30 Boxes, etc – are now moved to the Premium plans which run $4 or $13 a month. There is still a free plan – Jott Basic. But it is ad-supported (no description on how). Read More – http://is.gd/1LCM
@Mike Smith: Yep, I got that email today, too. Kind of sad but not terribly surprised. I’ve just been using Jott more recently due to the iPhone App they have for it, which is still available for free it looks like. Not sure if it’s worth paying for any advanced features, to me anyway. Free may be OK for me.