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!