About a week ago I found this article on Lifehacker that discusses some neat things you can to to increase your productivity with an extremely cool (and free) webapp called Jott. Jott has been around for at least a year and I’m surprised I haven’t found it sooner. Just goes to show you how hard it is to stay on top of all the great resources there are out there.

Jott allows you to call a toll free number on your cell phone and use voice activiated prompts to send voice messages to friends/family/coworkers/whoever. The magic comes when Jott automatically transcribed your voice message into text for either or both email and text messaging. No need to train with your voice and the accuracy is commendable.

This thing is really handy. Just set up your contacts on Jott’s site with email and/or cell phone number then set up the Jott number on your cell phone as a quickdial of some kind. When you call you are prompted you just say the recipient’s name and then speak your short message and hang up. That’s it. Your message is transcribed and texted/emailed to the intended recipient automatically. You can also establish groups. In addition there are plugins and strategies that allow you to incorporate the use of Jott to do other things like Twitter, blog, and add to-do items using Toodledo or Vitalist (two great tools I’ll soon post on).

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