Comments on: Simplify text messaging with Jott

By: Iwaruna.com » iPhone note & checklist apps (Part 1, likely)

Iwaruna.com » iPhone note & checklist apps (Part 1, likely) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:12:53 +0000

[...] v1.0.4 offers voice recognition and transcription services, along with tools for to-do lists, notes, reminders and multi-contact collaboration. Unfortunately, [...]

By: McFly

McFly — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:16:20 +0000

@Amy I’ve been using Jott from outside the US via Rebtel. It takes a little bit of setting up, though. Here is a little guide on how to do it:

http://ninjaplan.com/using-jott-outside-the-us/

By: Christoff

Christoff — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:14:01 +0000

I’ve been using Jott since Oct 07 and it’s truly a lifesaver. I use it to email myself work reminders, grocery reminders, etc. I also use it to jott to google calendar and twitter.

It’s free, interfaces with igoogle via a widget, and helps me to keep things organized. Not sure how anyone could hate on a service like this.

By: AliT

AliT — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 09:12:36 +0000

Just found SpinVox, but it looks pricey.

By: AliT

AliT — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:52:49 +0000

Like Amy, I’m in the UK, where it is illegal to hold your phone while driving (whether to text or make voice calls). This sounds like a great idea. Does anyone know of a UK equivalent, please?

By: Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:56:08 +0000

Sorry for the crazy-long paragraph of ramble– just a big fan!

By: Kiki

Kiki — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:54:44 +0000

When I first heard of Jott, I thought it was an amusing novelty, but figured I wouldn’t really find any use for it. Now it’s great– I have it on speed dial! If I’m walking somewhere and need to email myself a reminder, I just speed dial it and jott myself! If I’m almost asleep but suddenly have an important thought I don’t have to fumble for paper and pen and lose that sleepy feeling, I just groggily call Jott and have it send me an email to check in the morning. It’s also been a handy way for me to get in touch with people when I’m away from a computer but have a phone, and they’re away from their phones but on a computer. I just jott them. I know someone who records his dreams using Jott. I’ve also used it when I wanted to tell someone some Deep Though late at night, but didn’t want to wake them with a call. I think Jott’s computer/human transcription is great, and the transcriptions have actually improved over time. (Plus, if the transcription goes wonky, you can listen to an audio file of it!) Yay for Jott, its freeness, and its innovativeness!

By: Wayne Schulz

Wayne Schulz — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:34:38 +0000

I’ve tried this and found the accuracy was much greater when you are a newish subscriber than after you’ve been with Jott for a few weeks or months.

I think once you’re hooked, rather than having a human transcribe you they start throwing you through voice recognition which quite honestly I’ve found is not that good.

Just my .02

By: amber

amber — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:31:20 +0000

this tool might just save me from a traffic ticket (since texting has been added to the list of primary offenses in NJ). even though i have a full keypad…and can text quite easily, i still have to look down from time to time. i should get this a try for texting myself notes while driving.

By: William Mize

William Mize — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:24:02 +0000

I’d also like to add in my own defense and use of Jott that a) Sprint’s text messaging costs are ridiculous, and b) trying to text on a Sprint Katana phone is maddening to the extreme.

Hence, Jott

By: LEC

LEC — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:52:20 +0000

Jott’s a terrific little tool. One of my favorite applications is when I’m driving along and a thought pops into my head…a thought that would otherwise have me pulling over to the side of the road to “jot” it down. Now, I just dial out using my bluetooth headpiece, record the message, and it’s delivered into my email for later organized retrieval. For those of us who are techno-inclined scatterbrains, this is a mighty neat program.

By: Kate from Jott

Kate from Jott — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:36:59 +0000

It’s great to read all of these comments and I thought I’d chime in here a second to help clear up some points.

Jott focuses on organization and communication for the sake of productivity, we try and steer clear of encouraging laziness We offer people a way to text message that doesn’t involve typing, not so they won’t learn how, but so they can quickly get their message across and save some time. Plus, we are indeed free!

By: Emma

Emma — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:27:02 +0000

Riight, I guess it would be useful while driving. But to be honest I’d prefer people not use the phone at all while driving. Even using hands free is more dangerous than not!

This being free does make it more useful I guess, but I think I’ll stick to texting and Google Calendar!

By: delphine

delphine — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:17:11 +0000

Oh, at first I thought that you had to pay to use Jott and thought that was a bit ridiculous but if it’s free and it works for you…cool. Who am I to ridicule someone for not wanting to text? It can be rather tedious sometimes.

By: Robert Reed

Robert Reed — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:10:22 +0000

I’ve used Jott to send mobile text messages, but the messages are in html which gets stripped, and then the body of the message gets truncated into the subject line, so its repeated in the text, and the end result is you only get to communicate about 60 or 70 characters before the SMS limit.

Otherwise, Jott rocks for sending messages to myself.

By: amy

amy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:30:01 +0000

anyone know of a UK-friendly jott-like service?

I’m using my phone for more and more online stuff these days – Iwantsandy, twitter etc, this would be great

Amy

By: Cranky Moe

Cranky Moe — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:10:08 +0000

@ the jott haters

When did empowering people with a tool that interfaces with a few dozen other services become a source of clutter?

There are plenty of practical applications for a tool like jott that go beyond avoiding the “laziness of fiddling” around typing.

There are a tons of places and spaces where people have a need to text that don’t involve driving. I once had a need to send text messages with a low battery in minus six degree weather. My voice with jott would have worked much better than my fingers.

They’re not making a profit on “other people’s laziness and unwillingness to try and learn ‘new’ technology.” They’re risking big money creating something new because 1) somewhere there might be a need for it, 2) they apparently believe in the service and 3) it’s what some people do when they’re minds are free of uncluttered, judgemental crap.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:50:56 +0000

I got the impression from the posting that it wasn’t for safety issues while driving, it was simply because someone didn’t want to fiddle around to learn how to type. That’s just lazy. I still stick by that.

I’m all for less people texting while driving, however. In that case I can see it being useful.

By: jane

jane — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:49:33 +0000

Ahh, maybe it’s for the drivers? I live in a city and don’t own a car.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:14:02 +0000

I tested Jott one time using these two sentences: “Do research on genes” and “Go buy blue jeans”. Jott was able to put the words “genes” and “jeans” in context and spell them correctly in each situation despite the fact that those two words sound the same in the English language. Granted, I’m a simply guy… I’m easily distracted by shiny things, but Jott’s ability to do this is impressive.