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How to Get Things Done with Jott

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 How to Get Things Done with Jott

I first tried out Jott last year, and was really impressed with what it could do. You call their number, say something into the phone, and it sends it as a text message back to you. And it works — aside from a few odd names and strange words, its transcriptions are pretty much spot on. Apparently1 they run your voice message through a speech-to-text engine and then run it by a human operator for double-checking.

However they make it work, it’s pretty slick. But I couldn’t figure out much to do with it at the time. I’m not the kind of person who would leave myself voicemail to remind myself to do things — I carry a Palm for that. And a paper notebook. So I let my Jott account gather dust for a while.
In the last few months, though, Jott’s introduced their Jott Links service, which allows you to use Jott to add items to your todo list, send messages to other people, even blog using their service. And it works — so well, in fact, that connection with Jott Links was one of my primary criteria2 in selecting an online task list manager (I ended up with Toodledo).
All it takes is a little set-up, first in your Jott account, then on your phone, and you can start Jotting3 things to any number of online services. Here’s how.
First things first: send yourself a message
The easiest thing to do with Jott is to send yourself a message — useful for reminders5 and quick collection of random6 thoughts while on the go.
   1. Sign up for a Jott account. You’ll enter your phone’s telephone number, which acts as your username — any call from that phone number goes to your account.
   2. Add a speed-dial entry to your phone for Jott. The number is 1 (866) JOTT-123 [1 866-568-8123, for those without standard phone keypads]. I have my Treo set to call Jott whenever I press and hold the “J” key.
   3. Call Jott.
   4. The operator will ask who you want to send a message to. Say “Myself”.
   5. Record your message.
   6. Hang up.
   7. A few minutes later, a text message will arrive with your transcribed7 message. Goggle8 at the wonder that is today’s technology.
Send yourself a reminder4
You can have Jott send you a text message 15 minutes before an event.
   1. Call Jott.
   2. When the operator asks who you want to send a message to, say “Reminder”.
   3. Jott says “What time?” and you reply with the time.
   4. Jott says “What day” and you give a date, or say “today” or “tomorrow”.
   5. When you hear the beep, record what you want to be reminded of.
   6. Hang up.
   7. 15 minutes before the event, you’ll get a text message with a transcription of your recorded message.
   8. Get somewhere on time, for a change.
Send text messages (SMS) with your voice
   1. Login to your Jott account.
   2. Add contacts under the “Contacts” tab. You can either enter them one at a time, or import them using either Plaxo or by uploading an exported CSV file from Outlook.
   3. Call Jott.
   4. When the operator asks who you want to send a message to, say the name of the person you want to send a message to. Speak clearly!
   5. The operator repeats the name back to you. Since the operator is a computer, she will say it in a funny way. Don’t laugh! Instead, if it’s correct, say “yes”, or say “no” to try again.
   6. Record your message.
   7. Hang up.
   8. A few minutes later, your friend will receive your message, neatly9 transcribed into standard English. They won’t have any idea what it means, though, since they only read Textish.
Send a text message to a bunch of people at the same time
   1. Log into your Jott account.
   2. Click the “Groups” tab.
   3. Click “New Groups” and walk through the wizard. You’ll now have a group whose name functions exactly as any other contact. When you call Jott, instead of saying the name of a person, you’ll say the name of the whole group, e.g. “Family” or “Friends”.
   4. Call Jott.
   5. Record your message as usual.
   6. A few minutes later, everyone in the group will receive the message at the same time. They’ll look at each other in awe10, wondering how you typed so fast!
Organize your messages to yourself
If you send a lot of messages to yourself, you might want to create folders12 to organize them all.
   1. Log into your Jott account.
   2. On the main page (”My Jotts”), click “New Folder11”.
   3. Name your folder.
   4. When you call in, instead of saying “myself”, say the name of the folder you want to send a message to.
So, for example, maybe you want to keep track of your expenses. While you’re out and about, call Jott every time you spend money, and send the amount and the nature of the purchase to your “expenses” folder. That seems like a good idea.
Jott Links: Send messages to other services
This is where Jott gets really cool. You can use Jott to have spoken messages transcribed and sent to a bunch of online services. At the moment, you can use Jott with any of these services:
Search with Jott
    * Amazon: Look up items and prices. Sends an email with results, no text message.
    * Zillow: Get housing price estimates.
    * Recommendr: Product reviews and recommendations.
    * mosio: Jott a question and it’s answered by real people.
    * Gumiyo: Online classifieds.
    * Trapster: Share speed traps you come across, or find out if there are any in your area.
HealthTop TipsNutritionLifestyle
Blog with Jott
    * Blogger
    * WordPress.com: Works with WordPress.com hosted blogs only; not available for your own WordPress blogs (yet?)
    * TypePad: Also only for hosted blogs.
    * LiveJournal
    * tumblr
    * twitter
    * jaiku
    * Yahoo Groups: Not exactly blogging, but this doesn’t fit anywhere else.
Get Things Done with Jott
    * Schedule events: You can send events to Google Calendar and 30Boxes.
    * Add tasks to your todo list: Send tasks to Remember the Milk, vitalist, or Toodledo.
    * Keep track of expenses: Record your purchases with expensr.
    * Send yourself reminders: Tell Sandy what you need to be reminded of.
You have to activate13 each of these separately, which usually amounts to going to the “Jott Links” tab in your account and selecting the service you want to add, which sends you to the service’s website where you have to confirm your request. That’s about it.
Check the “send response” box, and Jott will send you a confirmation14 message saying it’s added whatever you sent to the service you sent it to, which is nice. You can send about 1000 characters, which is about 200 words or a page of written text, to most services, which should be plenty.
Use the syntax you would normally use. To send a task to Toodledo, for instance, I just say “Check on mom’s cats on Tuesday”. It doesn’t add the date, but that’s ok. To send a reminder to Sandy, be sure to use “Remind me” or “Remember”, like this: “Remind me to check on mom’s cats on Tuesday at 3:00 pm.”
What should work but apparently doesn’t
You know how you can send emails to Google Docs or Zoho Documents and they’re converted into word processor documents? For some reason, can’t get Jotts emailed to those services to come up as documents. You’d think it would work, but it doesn’t. And I’m not sure if it’s because of something Jott does weird15 with emails, or (more likely) the incredibly spotty nature of Google Docs’ and Zoho’s email parsing16, which doesn’t work on half the emails I send anyway.
Be more productive with Jott
If you find yourself away from home or your office a lot, or if you’re just more comfortable dictating17 than typing, getting familiar with Jott can be a real help in getting stuff done. I doubt if I could have moved to an online todo list if I didn’t know I could enter tasks from anywhere using my mobile phone. With more and more services adding Jott Links, it may be only a matter of time before your favorite service is Jott-enabled (I’m talking to you, Adobe18 Buzzword!) and there are already plenty of services to use with Jott if you aren’t already tied to a service.
If you’ve dreamed of a future where you talk to your computer and it does stuff, it seems like your dreams are starting to come true. You can’t do everything with Jott just yet, but there are a surprising number of things you can do. And best of all, it works. Really well.
Got any Jott hacks19 to share with us? Let us know in the comments — especially if you’ve gotten the whole “Jott to document editor” thing worked out.

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1 apparently tMmyQ     
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
参考例句:
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
2 criteria vafyC     
n.标准
参考例句:
  • The main criterion is value for money.主要的标准是钱要用得划算。
  • There are strict criteria for inclusion in the competition.参赛的标准很严格。
3 jotting 7d3705384e72d411ab2c0155b5810b56     
n.简短的笔记,略记v.匆忙记下( jot的现在分词 );草草记下,匆匆记下
参考例句:
  • All the time I was talking he was jotting down. 每次我在讲话时,他就会记录下来。 来自互联网
  • The student considers jotting down the number of the businessman's American Express card. 这论理学生打算快迅速地记录下来下这位商贾的美国运通卡的金额。 来自互联网
4 reminder WkzzTb     
n.提醒物,纪念品;暗示,提示
参考例句:
  • I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
  • It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知,她才付应该交的房租。
5 reminders aaaf99d0fb822f809193c02b8cf69fba     
n.令人回忆起…的东西( reminder的名词复数 );提醒…的东西;(告知该做某事的)通知单;提示信
参考例句:
  • The film evokes chilling reminders of the war. 这部电影使人们回忆起战争的可怕场景。
  • The strike has delayed the mailing of tax reminders. 罢工耽搁了催税单的投寄。
6 random HT9xd     
adj.随机的;任意的;n.偶然的(或随便的)行动
参考例句:
  • The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
  • On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查,发现肉变质了。
7 transcribed 2f9e3c34adbe5528ff14427d7ed17557     
(用不同的录音手段)转录( transcribe的过去式和过去分词 ); 改编(乐曲)(以适应他种乐器或声部); 抄写; 用音标标出(声音)
参考例句:
  • He transcribed two paragraphs from the book into his notebook. 他把书中的两段抄在笔记本上。
  • Every telephone conversation will be recorded and transcribed. 所有电话交谈都将被录音并作全文转写。
8 goggle pedzg     
n.瞪眼,转动眼珠,护目镜;v.瞪眼看,转眼珠
参考例句:
  • His insincerity is revealed by the quick goggle of his eyes.他眼睛的快速转动泄露了他的不诚实。
  • His eyes seemed to goggle larger than usual behind the heavy lenses.在厚厚的镜片后面,眼睛瞪得比平时大得多。
9 neatly ynZzBp     
adv.整洁地,干净地,灵巧地,熟练地
参考例句:
  • Sailors know how to wind up a long rope neatly.水手们知道怎样把一条大绳利落地缠好。
  • The child's dress is neatly gathered at the neck.那孩子的衣服在领口处打着整齐的皱褶。
10 awe WNqzC     
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
参考例句:
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
11 folder KjixL     
n.纸夹,文件夹
参考例句:
  • Peter returned the plan and charts to their folder.彼得把这份计划和表格放回文件夹中。
  • He draws the document from its folder.他把文件从硬纸夹里抽出来。
12 folders 7cb31435da1bef1e450754ff725b0fdd     
n.文件夹( folder的名词复数 );纸夹;(某些计算机系统中的)文件夹;页面叠
参考例句:
  • Encrypt and compress individual files and folders. The program is compact, efficient and user friendly. 加密和压缩的个人档案和folders.the计划是紧凑,高效和用户友好。 来自互联网
  • By insertion of photocopies,all folders can be maintained complete with little extra effort. 插入它的复制本,不费多大力量就能使所有文件夹保持完整。 来自辞典例句
13 activate UJ2y0     
vt.使活动起来,使开始起作用
参考例句:
  • We must activate the youth to study.我们要激励青年去学习。
  • These push buttons can activate the elevator.这些按钮能启动电梯。
14 confirmation ZYMya     
n.证实,确认,批准
参考例句:
  • We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
  • We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前,我们需要书面确认。
15 weird bghw8     
adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
参考例句:
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
16 parsing dbc77665f51d780a776978e34f065af5     
n.分[剖]析,分解v.从语法上描述或分析(词句等)( parse的现在分词 )
参考例句:
  • A parsing program, or parser, is also called a recognizer. 分析过程又称作识别程序。 来自辞典例句
  • This chapter describes a technique for parsing using the bottom-up method. 本章介绍一种使用自底向上方法的分析技术。 来自辞典例句
17 dictating 9b59a64fc77acba89b2fa4a927b010fe     
v.大声讲或读( dictate的现在分词 );口授;支配;摆布
参考例句:
  • The manager was dictating a letter to the secretary. 经理在向秘书口授信稿。 来自辞典例句
  • Her face is impassive as she listens to Miller dictating the warrant for her arrest. 她毫无表情地在听米勒口述拘留她的证书。 来自辞典例句
18 adobe 0K5yv     
n.泥砖,土坯,美国Adobe公司
参考例句:
  • They live in an adobe house.他们住在一间土坯屋里。
  • Adobe bricks must drived dried completely before are used.土坯砖块使用前一定要完全干燥。
19 hacks 7524d17c38ed0b02a3dc699263d3ce94     
黑客
参考例句:
  • But there are hacks who take advantage of people like Teddy. 但有些无赖会占类似泰迪的人的便宜。 来自电影对白
  • I want those two hacks back here, right now. 我要那两个雇工回到这儿,现在就回。 来自互联网
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