I’m not exactly a cutting edge guy. I seem to be about six months to a year behind the digitari. For instance, I was dragged to Facebook kicking and screaming, and I discovered podcasts roughly 9 months after the “podcast renaissance” began. Consequently, I’m late to the party on this whole Jott thing.
Jott lets you record notes over your cell phone, transcribes them, and adds them to an online ”to-do” list. Okay, that’s kinda neat but it didn’t sound like something I’d actually use in practice. However, now thtat there’s a Jott application for my iPhone I decided to take a quick look at it. Holy moly! I can Jott to Wordpress! That means I could be in the car when remember something that I wanted to post here at Flametoad, and record a blog post which is transcribed and automatically posted here. Sure it may not have tags or categories, but big deal! (FWIW, I can also Jott directly to LiveJournal.)
Jott also can send items to Google Calendar. That’s kind of a sore subject for me. I’ve been a Yahoo Mail user for a number of years now. I manage my Flametoad, 12 to Midnight, and Yahoo accounts through a single Yahoo Mail interface. Lately I’ve started using the Yahoo calendar since it’s more or less integrated into the mail client. The problem is that while my phone syncs with YMail just fine, Yahoo calendar syncing isn’t even an option. It looks like Yahoo would just as soon pretend that their own calendar app didn’t exist. They don’t even support it in their Yahoo Go mobile application. However, I believe it does talk to the Google calendar. I already use Google Reader for my RSS feeds, so it looks like Google is slowly sucking me in against my will. I’ll let you know how that goes for me.
Edit: It looks like I was wrong. No native support for Google Calendar either. It really looks like calendar support in the iPhone, even 2.0, is crippled. Jailbroken phones have been able to sync with online calendars for at least six months now. Funny how Apply will gladly sell you a $99 subscription to their “mobile me” service that will do the same thing, though. Am I really asking that much?
I was able to export my Yahoo calendar into Google, and Google at least has an iPhone-styled browser-based version of their calendar. So now I can at least get to my calendar online.
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