Some cool technology…
I forget stuff. So I go to great pains to take notes. I use a multitude of technologies, including rude text files with reminders, to two wiki’s one personal and one for my department at work.
I’ve tried OneNote, and other fancy stuff, but the wiki’s by far work the best at least so far.
The last 24 hours have revealed two pretty cool technologies or apps I’d like to share with you.
First off Jott.
It’s not new, just new to me and it works pretty well.
It’s beta as all Web 2.0 technologies are. You simply register your phone and create an account. Based on caller ID it recognizes you. You record a Jott, and it transcribes your voice to text and dispatches it.
It can send SMS, an email, post to a blog, do all kinds of good stuff. Pretty slick and free.
So far I haven’t been able to get it to post to WordPress but it’s supposed to be able to do that.
The second part which is growing on me the more I play with it is:
Another Web 2.0 product also in beta. Though private beta at this time. I have invites if you’re interested. email me at datapoohbah (at) gmail (dot) com, or post a comment.
Evernote is similar to Microsoft OneNote. Better in some areas, weaker in others. It’s cross platform and has a great web interface. With both Windows and Mac Clients that synchronize your notes so they are almost always available. It has pretty slick search and tagging. Doesn’t do attachments worth a crap, but this could potentially replace my Wiki’s…
Maybe not. But I can have my Jotts’s create Evernotes, and that’s pretty cool.
If there is other cool stuff like this out there that you think I should look at, review or bash, please post a comment.
-DP
Written by datapoohbah on June 12th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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