Jott.com Turns Your Words Into Action
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Jott.com Turns Your Words Into Action
- By Jim Edwards
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Ever needed to write down an important appointment, only find your calendar nowhere in sight?
Ever found yourself walking around the mall and had a million-dollar idea flash into your mind with no pen or scrap of paper to write it down?
Ever called a friend or spouse from your cell phone to ask them to write something down for you or remind you later?
If you answered “yes” to any of these or similar questions, then the free service at Jott.com may hold an answer that might very well change your life forever!
Jott.com allows you to call their toll-free number, leave a 15 second message, and then receive an e-mail reminder with transcribed text of your voice message. FREE! You can even schedule a specific time and date when the message gets emailed to you as a reminder. Upgrading to Jott.com’s premium services (starting at less than $4 per month) enables you to leave longer messages and integrate direclty with more online tools, such as: Outlook, Google Calendar, Twitter, and more. Bottom line, Jott.com makes it possible for you to communicate, remind yourself, make written notes, and organize your thoughts using just your phone.
Jott’s Basic (free) service makes a great way to get started making notes to yourself and scheduling reminders. Just sign up for the free service, enter in your phone number, make a quick confirmation call to a toll-free number (to make sure the phone number used is legitimate), and you can start jotting. You can even register multiple phones on your account (office, cell, home) so you can jot from anywhere.
By the way, putting Jott’s toll free number on speed dial rates a smart move rather than trying to remember and dial 10 digits when inspiration (or a panic attack) strikes and you need to get it out of your brain and recorded quickly.
Once you get a note recorded in Jott, you can optinally set it as a reminder that gets emailed you ton on a certain date and time right through the phone using simple voice prompts. Once your note gets transcribed (which usually takes less than 15 minutes), the site sends you an email alert to log in and access the text of your note. They even include the audio of your original note in case the text is off because of a poor phone connection or background noise. All your notes get organized on your Jott Dashboard in chronological order and you can delete, highlight, and prioritize them however you like.
Though the free level offers an excellent option, Jott.com also offers 2 premium levels worth a look. Most notably, the $3.95 per month level allows you to set appointments on your Google or Outlook calendars through your phone. Also, you can email and text your Jott Notes to specific contacts (or even a group) – a much safer alternative to texting while driving. With the Jott Pro plan ($12.95 per month) you can jot for up to 30 seconds per note and post directly to your Blogger, Twitter, and Tumblr accounts.
I like Jott most because of the service’s simplicity and that it just plain works as advertised! Remember to speak clearly and enunciate and you may just find yourself wondering how you ever got along without Jott.com.
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Jim, this is way too cool! Listened to your demo and I’m going to follow-up and do the program. Said a bit modestly, I think I have a nice voice and maybe a brief message thought delivered that way will have more impact than a brief, writtem message.
Thanks again for the great tip and the freebie advice.
Hope this coming year is a healthy and productive one for you and yours.
Patricia Harrington
Thanks Jim, most appreciated.
Hi Jim,
Jott.com sounds like the perfect interface for simplu turning audio into text.
Automatic transcription could be used to send all of your e-mails, I would imagine, without having to sit and type - right from the convenience of your phone.
Couple questions for you Jim.
With the advent of your coolsiteweekly.com blog, are you
(1)looking for web site submissions so that we become the bird dogs and make your job easier?
(2)what process would you like us to complete (link back with author’s credit) if we would like to add some of your posts to our sites.
Please advise, Jim and keep up the GREAT WORK!
Blessings to you and your family Jim in 2009.
Ron Schmidt
CEO - The Marketing Consultants Group, LLC 800-705-5356 Ext.77
thanks for the tip Jim, another great one is
Remember The Milk…..
http://www.rememberthemilk.com
MichaelB
Pawprints Software
Jim,
Awesome site! The information that you’ve provided has already helped me become more efficient. Thanks.
Don
Hey Jim
Very cool information. Great idea about the texting and driving, I’m from Australia & yeah very illegal to text & drive. Thanks
Anne.
This is great! Talk about starting the New Year off with adding efficiency.
Have a wonderful 2009 and I’m looking forward to your column.
How do you sleep at night? As if love of the internet already, isn’t enough…
How am “I” gonna sleep at night now, with such cool stuff blurring around in my head full of excitement each? I am literally serious. Would like a sleep reccommendation site that really works. Have tried everyone’s 50 ideas on how to get sleep. None work.
Also how to organize all these neat sites each week for easy reference. I would think having multiple Desktops would increase that much more clutter 100-fold. I had an art teacher tell me once to have all your paints/tools out in front of you at once, whether you need them or not, so that you don’t limit your creativity.
Ruth
I can see many people using this tool for its convenience. Time to eliminate post-it notes!
As a songwriter & novelist I get my best ideas during right-brained activities like driving and hiking. Thanks to your tip, I now have a free tool to record and transcribe my ideas on the go.
Thanks, Jim!
Hadley Finch http://www.tribeofblondes.net
Hey Jim - great stuff! I’m in the UK. A call to this number might be expensive. Do you know if there is likely to be a UK service with a UK number?
Hi Jim,
This is a great service, especially with congnitive functions thing, etc. Thanks for the info.
Happy New Year,
Loralyn
Thanks Jim
Looking forward to using to help pull in the next £Million!
Happy New Year.
Best wishes
George Burrows
Entrepreneur & Author
http://www.MillionairesCopyCatManual.eu
Hi Jim,
Thanks for finding this really useful website.
I’m from the UK too. I tried opening an account with Jott, but the phone number requires 10 digits, so will not work for the UK.
Is there a way around this? Or a UK based equivalent anyone knows about?
If so please leave a comment on my blog.
Happy New Year Everyone.
Dave
http://www.DavePumfrey.com
[...] job than I did explaining the power of this unique free service and I highly recommend that you watch his video and sign up for [...]
How amazing is that service. I get 99 ideas a day and some end up as ebooks for sale at ebookofknowledge.com Now I don’t even have to turn the light on at 3am to save my next zillion $ idea. Thanks Jim.
Anyone else into writing eBooks which sell on the Net?
Hey Jim,
Happy 09′ and Thanks a bunch for sharing your site with me. Can’t wait to read more. I’ll definitely be checking it out.
As far as Jott.com goes, very cool. With everything going on in my world it’s definitely a tool I could use to keep my ideas handy.
Thanks Again Jim. Look forward to learning more..
To Health And Success,
Shane in Wyo
I’m wondering how your do your videos, what cool software do you use to run your cool site videos? Do you need a video camera?
Thanks
Cristina
John,
The free option is gone. You can only try it free for a week now.
Still a good idea though.
Rodney
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