Unofficial Technology

Remember the Milk is the very popular online to do application. With Remember the Milk you can manage your tasks online and from anywhere with your internet enabled mobile phone. I’ve previously written about how to use Twitter and Quicksilver to add tasks to your RTM inbox.

Today I was introduced to an amazing and free service called Jott. With Jott, you call a toll free number and you navigate a very simple menu by voice to leave a message to one of the contacts that you have added to Jott. Jott then transcribes the message to text and emails it.

So you can see where this is going. If you are a RTM customer, you have an email address where you can send tasks to your inbox. To find this email address if you don’t already have it handy, log in to RTM and at the top menu click on Settings, then click on the Info tab. There you will see your unique email addresses, iCalendar feeds and Atom feed addresses.

Take your Remember the Milk inbox email address and add Remember the Milk as a contact in your Jott account. Call the Jott toll free number, select your Remember the Milk contact, speak your task reminder, and voila! you have a new task created in RTM without typing a single stroke.

You can use Jott to send emails via phone call to any number of contacts and even groups. Drive time is getting more productive all the time. Take a look at how it works: