Awesome Freebie: Jott Phone-to-Email Memo Service

Wed Jan 3, 2007 1:50PM EST

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I write a lot of notes to myself. Constantly writing things down on Post-Its. Sending myself emails. Making lists. If I don't, I wake up in a sweat in the middle of the night, suddenly remembering this thing or that thing that I've been forgetting to do.

Jott is a new service (currently in beta) that is going to make my neuroses infinitely better. It's obscenely simple: You dial a special toll-free number on your cell phone (or landline, if you prefer), you get a prompt to record a message to yourself, and then Jott converts the voice message to text and emails it to you. (You can also share messages with contacts you invite through the Jott system, which it calls "Jottcasting.")

That's it. Simple, but incredibly clever: You can send yourself a reminder email without being anywhere near a computer. I've tried it, and it works perfectly and quickly. There's not a lot of overhead in the form of prompts and extra button presses. It's all very intuitive.

Most interesting facet of the service? It's not run by machines: Real live humans take your messages and type them up by hand. That means everything is spelled correctly, and you don't get any of those "they're/their/there" errors. Nice touch.

Jott is open for service right now. Head on over and give it a spin!

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  • 6 Posted by ideaman789 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:22PM EDT Report Abuse

    Great service that will definitely help a perpetually disorganized person like myself. But, I have reservations about people transcribing my messages, rather than a technology providing such service. While I recognize that this is the most accurate form of speech recognition at this stage, and avoids the "they're/their/there" problem, it creeps me out a bit that someone is listening to all of my random thoughts and ramblings. Sort of big brotherish IMO.

  • 7 Posted by hermajesty54 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:18PM EDT Report Abuse

    I don't really see how this helps. I can always call my home phone and retrieve messages left for me OR by me. I call myself and leave a message to myself to remind me to ...whatever. I don't need a service to do that for me. It's alot more private too.

  • 10 Posted by cdsbythebay on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:20PM EDT Report Abuse

    I have to agree with #6. It is a bit big brotherish. I also agree with #7. I do that also. You just call your landline,and voila! We have to share too much of our private information as it is in this society

  • 11 Posted by ufgator48 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:27PM EDT Report Abuse

    Why not just use the recorder on your cell phone?

  • 13 Posted by thecaptain2000 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:03PM EDT Report Abuse

    The link did not work. It only opened a frame with graphics that weren't hyperlinked.

  • 15 Posted by mickey_02151 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:18PM EDT Report Abuse

    Sounds like an awesome new capability for everyone

  • 16 Posted by kerrod13 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:49PM EDT Report Abuse

    I tried to open another tidbit of information regarding free 411 and it jumped to this JOTT of which I would have no use for and it never gave me the information on 411 I was looking for.

  • 17 Posted by babybluemoby on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:01PM EDT Report Abuse

    Whoa.. real live people? Is there a market for real live people anymore?

  • 18 Posted by yhooiscool on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:56PM EDT Report Abuse

    just another gimmick....we dont need it. if you really need this - JOTT - you probably have way too much to deal with in the first place.

  • 19 Posted by mcravenufo on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:13PM EDT Report Abuse

    I didn't really like this portion on the Privacy Policy: "When you create a Jott either by phone, email, sms, im or otherwise, we may retain that data in order to offer our service, display relevant advertising, process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services." So they will retain our data?

  • 20 Posted by brianreliantappraisal on Thu Sep 3, 2009 3:13PM EDT Report Abuse

    if you could email someone else i can see the value but if it is just to remind yourself, use the memo on the same cell phone, send yourself a message, or just slow down.. here's a better idea, improve your memory and stop being so spacey.

  • 21 Posted by tsalsa1 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:23PM EDT Report Abuse

    Where is the link , I click on Jott but just got a screen popup but no link to sign up ?

  • 22 Posted by nerdycupid on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:36PM EDT Report Abuse

    Like what #9 said, how do they make MONEY? Since they use real people, it must cost them a fortune. (They'd need lots of people to do everything..) And its free for us. How is this possible? Well it certainly is a great service.

  • 24 Posted by pamilu2 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:59PM EDT Report Abuse

    There's already free 411: 1-800-free411, from your cell or land line.

  • 25 Posted by jmccartn_2000 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:37PM EDT Report Abuse

    My concern as always in this customer service industry that Im in worries me! Im concern about the company having knowledge of my phone number for one and then email address second. Now it seems to me that this free service is not free nothing actually is, because someone is selling something to somebody somewhere. Dont America believe the HYPE specially to my Black people. As a IT customer service rep i talk to 1000's of people and they are so glad to talk to a person so I found that things are made to be easier for us but in the long run,the geeks can not stop computer theft whatever they tell us or computer breakdowns and the loss of information YOURS/MINE INFORMANTION is paramount!

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