Once you've set up your account and entered some contacts, you can call in and Jott a message to someone. The system will convert your voice to text and send it as an email to the contact you indicated. It goes like this:
I dial Jott toll free and it knows me and asks "Who do you want to Jott?" If I want to send myself an email with information I'll need later, I answer "Me" and it converts what I say to text and sends the email to me. If I say a contact's name, it does the conversion and sends them an email. For a real estate professional, you could use this system to avoid long conversations when informing someone of a document delivery or other task completion. Just Jott that person with "Delivered your counter offer, and we'll await their response." Just an example, but it also sends you confirmation, and your file will have detailed records of document deliveries. I Jott myself when I drop off documents, just to have an email in the file with the time and date of the delivery.
Now, let's get to the real power of Jott in our real estate online business structure and the calendar. Jott has what is called "Links" for third party applications. One of these is for the Google Calendar. When I want to place a meeting or event into my Gcal from the road, I just call Jott and tell it to Jott "Google." I then give it the details something like this: "Meet Leslie Friday at 2 PM at the title company." Jott will convert that to text, send it to Gcal, and it will magically appear in my calendar. Gcal takes it from there with whatever reminder systems I've set up.
Then there's the Remember the Milk Link as well. The default for Jott on this one is the phrase "Remember the Milk." I don't like to say that much, so I changed it to "Tasks." I call Jott and tell it I want to Jott "Tasks." It converts my voice to text and it sets a task in RTM, which then shows up in Gcal as well. I could make all my tasks meetings or events to get them into Gcal, but that isn't effective for me. Tasks frequently don't have a due date, and RTM handles those properly. Plus, I also like the separate display of tasks from calendar events and meetings. RTM sends me reminders as text messages to my cell phone for tasks with due dates and times. Gcal sends an email on a schedule I set up. If I forget to do something, or I miss a deadline, it's certainly not the fault of my system.
You should be feeling really organized at this point. You have complete contact management, email, calendar and task management systems in place online for access with any computer. You have multiple ways to get your events and tasks into the system. Now let's go to the igoogle step and get them all displayed the way we want on our new customized home page in our browser.
