Jott

If you are an extremely busy professional or an extraordinary idea generator who usually scribbles notes on the back of napkins and yellow sticky notes you might have stumbled upon a sophisticated productivity solution called Jott.

Jott is a new tool that enables you to make a note to yourself even when you don't have a pen and paper handy. You call Jott on your cell phone, record a message, and Jott will run the message through a voice-to-text application that e-mail you the results.  How amazing is that!

Most people use a small digital recording device or their own voice mail to create this type or  organization and productivity but Jott provides you with a mailbox just for those messages to yourself.
Jott e-mails transcribed messages to your personal or corporate e-mail address depending on the one you give it when you sign up. It stores the messages in a "JottBox." The best part is that it enables you to "JottCast" messages to other people by creating a contact list.  The service is currently in beta, and it's free.

I could have used this service over the past week and weekend at The Master's. By the end of the tournament, I had a plethora of ideas and blog posts, but I also needed to follow Tiger and the eventual winner Zach Johnson without my cell phone.  The Master's doesn't allow any cameras, cell phones, or technology devices of any type.  What they did have was a bank of phones with free local and long distance sponsored by AT&T. If I'd known about Jott, I could have used those phones and been productive instead of eating too many pimento and cheese sandwiches.