THE DREAM IN ACTION

Jott.com“gott” me very excited. It is a start up that allows you to voice record messages and send them as text messages to the people in your contact list.  It took me about 10 minutes to set up the account and it took me about 5 more minutes to set up the ability to Jott directly in my Google Calendar.  The Google Calendar is not a standard Jott functionality but developed by the use of Jott’s API by Grinn.  Once you have your Jott account set-up and you have the GCal functionality set up it is very easy to use. You just call the Jott number 1-866-JOTT123 and it asks you who you would like to Jott, you reply and the Jott recording says “Got it” or “Repeat”.  Then you hear a tone and you say something like “Pick-up dry cleaning, Wednesday at 5:30pm” and it automatically posts to your GCal.  Think about how often you want to add an event or to-do to your calendar and you are not in front of your computer…Often enough? Thought so.  This is one of the more practical start-ups that I’ve seen recently. Give it a shot and let me know here at ActionsTalk what you think.  With all of that said, it does scare me that I’ll become reliant upon these types of new services and all of the sudden there will be a monthly fee.  But for now, they are free and their making my life a “Lott” more convenient. 

To install the GCal functionality click here.