Increase Productivity With These Automated Note Takers

Jott.com

My friend recently introduced me to Jott, which is a pretty cool idea that is currently in beta. Basically, you sign up for a new account on their website, give them your phone number and create a list of contacts that you call or email the most. Then, you call their 1-800 number, select a contact, and speak your message. The message gets sent to that contact as a text message and an email.

Advantages to this web application:

• You can avoid the EXTREMELY dangerous practice of trying to text message someone while you’re driving. I know that it’s still not that safe to talk on a cell phone when driving, but it’s a million times more dangerous to be looking up and down, trying to type something while you’re driving. If you’re on the road, you don’t want to engage in a big conversation with someone, you can call jott.com, and send someone a quick text message all through voice recognition software.
• You can send yourself emails to remember important information. I know that you’ve all been in the car or out running errands when a great idea pops in your head. Or maybe you remembered a friend’s birthday, and you tried to make a mental note about it. Mental notes are often forgotten, but you can send yourself an email through jott.com and your cell phone.

Disadvantages to this web application:

• The voice recognition software is still working out the bugs. My friend sent me a message through it today and it spelled “Starbucks” like this: “Starbox”. But, that’s probably because he didn’t spell it out, and it tells you to spell out proper nouns. But, the rest of the sentence wasn’t completely coherent either. My friend said he was in an area with a lot of background noise, so that may have been the reason.
• I think people are addicted to text messaging each other. I have no idea why, because it’s so tedious and I thought you bought a cell phone contract to TALK on a cell phone, not write text.

Evernote.com

Ever Note is another cool idea. I’ve never tried this, because I don’t have a camera phone, but if you have a camera phone, you can take a snapshot of your scratch notes, and Ever Note will file it away and index your keywords on the note. Then, you can search for those notes at a later date by the way that your remember it. Here’s some more information from their website.

Capture what you like, find it when you want

Stop forgetting things. Capture everything now so you will be able to find it all later.
Things to capture:

* Webpages
* Wine labels
* Whiteboards
* Scribbles
* To-dos
* Photos

Evernote on phone, desktop, and browser
On the web. On your desktop. On your phone.

Everything you put into Evernote is always synchronized across all of your devices. That way, all your memories are available to you wherever you are.
Downloads

* Mac OS X Leopard
* Windows XP/Vista
* Windows Mobile
* Web Clippers

How does Evernote do it?

Three steps:

01
You capture the things you want to remember using what you already use—your Windows or Mac computer, the web, and your mobile phone.

02
We run everything through our recognition technology and then make it all available across your devices. You can then organize and tag the notes, if you want.

03
When you want to remember something, just search for it and there it is just like you remember it.

As the web continues to become the humongous entity that it is, there are still a few great ideas out there to help you become more productive. It also helps people like me that never remember people’s names, birthdays, or other important bits of information that I’m bombarded with throughout the day. I think these web applications can be a great tool for bloggers. I always hear a piece of news or have a conversation with someone that spurs on an idea for a blog post. Then, I get home, and I can’t remember what I wanted to blog about. Using either of these applications can help you remember blog post ideas.

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