I have had on my GTD list for some time to revisit Jott. I had created an account some time back and toyed around with it. My partner in MediaGeek crime has hooked Jott up to his home automation server and can turn devices in his home on and off with a phone call. Yes, I am jealous. So this morning before diving into work, I decided to try a few things out.
I figured that it would be nice for Jott to work with other technologies that I use regularly to see if I could find a good use for this innovative technology. First on the list was getting it to work with Twitter. I had originally thought about writing a gateway to do this, but was trumped by our friends at Big In Japan and EgorCast. I never really got it working and never revisited it. The great thing is that Jott has made it easy to support “links”, so that any service provider can provide a link for a Jott to be posted against (oh how my evil mind is turning now). It just so happens that Twitter is a “friend” of Jott. Which means it is as easy as clicking “Jott Links” tab and then clicking “add” for the service you want.
Within minutes, I was able to record a Jott that immediately got sent to my twitter account. This is great because now I can twitter while on the run (okay driving), in a slightly safer manner. While I won’t advocate talking on the phone while on the road, I will say it is better than texting while on the road.
So my Assistant Sandy got a little jealous. She asked why I never Jott her. Good question Sandy. I must start by saying Sandy is most wonderful. So I added Sandy to my Jott friends and gave her permission to accept Jott messages.
I called up Jott, asked for Sandy, told Sandy to remind me to call Steve in five minutes. You know what in 5 minutes I got a text and email from Sandy telling me I better call Steve. Sandy really is the perfect assistant. I wonder what she wants for Christmas.
Lastly, Jott is friends with Amazon by default. This means I can call Jott ask for Amazon and give it a category/product. Jott then will email a list of products matching that product to help me get information on it. They do an excellent job explaining how it works. Try it out.
So how do you plan on using Jott to further the functionality of the services you use? or better yet the services that you create?
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