{"id":21,"date":"2008-02-05T08:22:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T13:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/02\/05\/jott-call-a-number-get-a-transcribed-email-reminder\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T11:22:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T16:22:44","slug":"jott-call-a-number-get-a-transcribed-email-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/2008\/02\/05\/jott-call-a-number-get-a-transcribed-email-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"Jott: Call a Number, Get a Transcribed Email Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/02\/03\/use-roboform-to-manage-your-passwords-more\/\">RoboForm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/2008\/02\/01\/use-ta-da-list-to-manage-your-lists\/\">Ta-da List<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jott.com\/\">Jott<\/a> has become one of <strong>the key productivity tools<\/strong> that I use several times daily.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jott.com\/\"><img src='http:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/jott_logo_beta.gif' alt='Jott' border=0 \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Jott&#8217;s tagline says it all:<\/p>\n<p><em>Think it. Jott it. Do it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who&#8217;s read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidco.com\/\">Getting Things Done<\/a> understands the importance of getting a thought out of your head and into a place where you can later evaluate and act on it &#8212; be it a reminder to schedule your car maintenance, pick up the dry cleaning, buy your honey a special somethin&#8217; somethin&#8217; for Valentine&#8217;s Day, or note an idea for a future blog entry. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re at all like me and use your email for managing your reminders and projects, then Jott is a perfect complement to your productivity. How often are you driving, running, skiing, coming out of a meeting, or otherwise doing something where you don&#8217;t want to forget a thought and don&#8217;t have a pen and paper handy? Jott solves that problem.<\/p>\n<p>I use Jott for both personal and work stuff (I can Jott &#8220;myself&#8221; for work and &#8220;my Gmail&#8221; for personal reminders). <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to set up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a free account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jott.com\/\">Jott.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Add your cell phone number.<\/li>\n<li>Start Jotting yourself &#8212; Jott knows it&#8217;s you based on your phone number!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jott is awesome. It allows you to do all of this and more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jott yourself an immediate note that you&#8217;ll receive as a transcribed email with a link to the source audio<\/li>\n<li>Jott yourself a reminder to send you an email and text message on your cell phone on a particular date and time<\/li>\n<li>Jott anyone in your contact list just as you&#8217;d Jott yourself<\/li>\n<li>Set up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jott.com\/JottLinks.aspx\">Jott Links<\/a> to external services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/\">Google Calendar<\/a> so that you can automatically add reminders and events to your calendar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can even Jott special keywords like &#8220;Amazon&#8221; &#8212; say a product name and get a list of top 5 results in your email.<\/p>\n<p>My #1 Jott feature request: Provide a Jott Link for Ta-da List. There&#8217;s already one for Backpack (another product from 37signals), so hopefully Ta-da integration will be coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with RoboForm and Ta-da List, Jott has become one of the key productivity tools that I use several times daily. Jott&#8217;s tagline says it all: Think it. Jott it. Do it. Anyone who&#8217;s read Getting Things Done understands the importance of getting a thought out of your head and into a place where you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabeanderson.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}