Here’s several excerpts from a post by Dustin M. Wax, a contributing editor of lifehacks about an interesting new technology service, How to Get Things Done with Jott:
In the last few months, Jott’s introduced their Jott Links service, which allows you to use your phone to add items to your todo list, send email messages to other people, even blog using their service.
All it takes is a little set-up, first in your Jott account, then on your phone, and you can start Jotting things to any number of online services.
The easiest thing to do with Jott is to send yourself an email message — useful for reminders and quick collection of random thoughts while on the go.
You can also have Jott send you a text message 15 minutes before an event.
With Jott Links you can send messages to other web services – This is where Jott gets really cool. You can use Jott to have spoken messages transcribed and sent to a bunch of online services. At the moment, you can use Jott with any of these services…
Search with Jott:
- Amazon: Look up items and prices. Sends an email with results, no text message.
- Zillow: Get housing price estimates.
- Recommendr: Product reviews and recommendations.
- mosio: Jott a question and it’s answered by real people.
- Gumiyo: Online classifieds.
- Trapster: Share speed traps you come across, or find out if there are any in your area.
Get Things Done with Jott:
- Schedule events: You can send events to Google Calendar and 30Boxes.
- Add tasks to your todo list: Send tasks to Remember the Milk, vitalist, or Toodledo.
- Keep track of expenses: Record your purchases with expensr.
- Send yourself reminders: Tell Sandy what you need to be reminded of.
Be more productive with Jott – If you find yourself away from home or your office a lot, or if you’re just more comfortable dictating than typing, getting familiar with Jott can be a real help in getting stuff done. I doubt if I could have moved to an online todo list if I didn’t know I could enter tasks from anywhere using my mobile phone. With more and more services adding Jott Links, it may be only a matter of time before your favorite service is Jott-enabled and there are already plenty of services to use with Jott if you aren’t already tied to a service.
If you’ve dreamed of a future where you talk to your computer and it does stuff, it seems like your dreams are starting to come true. You can’t do everything with Jott just yet, but there are a surprising number of things you can do. And best of all, it works. Really well.
