Jott.com – Memory Aid for the Aging Cell Phone Generation
by Chris Christensen Add commentscategories: Cell Phones, Internet
I have fallen in love with a service from a website called jott.com. With jott.com I use my (cell) phone to send myself or others emails. I pick up the phone and dial a central number and leave a voice message for someone in my jott.com address book. To leave myself a message I simply say “myself”. Then an email with a message transcription and an attached audio file is sent to that email address. The voice recognition works surprisingly well. When I dictated part of Richard the 3rd as a test I got this phrase:
Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York
The only word it got wrong was using “sun” for “son”. Not bad.
What I like about this service is that as someone who is middle aged who is always thinking about 10 things at a time I just have to pull out my cell phone and leave myself a message to get the idea out of my head and into my email. As a email addicted person with a cell phone, a laptop Jott.com helps tie my life together. Cool.
by Chris Christensen
I am the Director of Engineering for TripAdvisor.com/Flights. I am also the host of the Amateur Traveler. The Amateur Traveler is an online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations and what are the best places to travel to. It includes both a weekly audio podcast, a video podcast, and a blog.2 Responses to “Jott.com – Memory Aid for the Aging Cell Phone Generation”
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chris
Says:May 29th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I agree. Jott.com is going to solve TONS of peoples problems! For instance, here in washington state, they just passed a law banning cell phone usage while driving, including texting. All people have to do is discover jott and their problems are solved! Now how cool is that?! I see this company going a long ways. From my understanding…Jott is going to start a business model that will cost a few bucks or so.
Bernard Farrell
Says:September 10th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I started using Jott.com recently and really like the service. But I have noticed some misjotts. So I’ve started http://misjott.com and hope people will let me know where Jott messed up. Should be fun!