You’re driving. You hear a phone number on the radio, and you know you’re going to forget it if you don’t write it down… what to do?

I have carried a voice recorder in the car for a few years now for this sort of thing, but I might be using it less now that I have discovered jott.com. Here’s how it works:

1. Call Jott. (On my phone, it’s speed-dial 5.)
2. Jott recognizes me with caller ID.
3. Jott asks, “Who do you want to Jott?” (Nevermind that it should be “whom.” It’s free, so I let it slide.)
4. I say, “Myself.”
5. Jott says, “Jott yourself.”
6. I say, “7708886461.”
7. You can hang up or wait until Jott says, “Got it.”

That took about 15 seconds. Then this comes in my e-mail:

Pretty impressive… it even recognized that it was a phone number and put dashes in!

But it’s not just for phone numbers; it does a nice job recognizing any sort of speech too: