I am using Jott.com to remind my self on the road. Works great especially if you are in the car driving. I set it up so that if I Jott Thisweek it will be posted in This week todo list.

Very, VERY cool idea!!! I’m beginning to really like HR.

Can you explain this more, I don’t quite get it from looking at their website. You call the Jott number and speak your task, and it transcribes it and emails it to your HR task dropbox? How good is the transcription?

It seems that you can create a task from Jott, but you can’t email your dropbox. Those emails get rejected.

Nkresse—you have to add the email address jott sends from as one of your email addresses in HR for it to work.

The Jott translation is excellent.

To clarify:

One is given a ‘dropbox’ address with each Highrise account. Highrise appears to be intelligent due to it’s ability to know what to do with each e-mail you send it, and rightly so as it has many features! The feature being used by Bart HR is implemented by modifying the default dropbox e-mail address slightly, depending on your desired outcome.

An example of a dropbox account might be: dropbox@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com

I’m assuming that the number is a unique identifier, sort of a built in password. That, in addition to ensuring that the e-mail is coming from your account, makes for welcomed, albeit menial, security.

As mentioned before, this address can be modified slightly to produce different results. Anyone who has played with the dropbox address before is likely aware of its default usage. By including the address in an e-mail (most commonly as a BCC), the message is either attached to the receiving contact’s entry in your Highrise account, or, if the contact does not exist, a new entry is created for that contact.
(Source: email)

The other features pertain more to creating tasks (as this thread is about):

dropbox+today@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com (email becomes task description) task+today@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com (subject line becomes task text)
A task for today will be created.

dropbox+tomorrow@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com task+tomorrow@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com
A task for tomorrow will be created.

dropbox+thisweek@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com task+thisweek@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com
A task for this week will be created.

dropbox+nextweek@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com task+nextweek@11223344.supercow.highrisehq.com
A task for next week will be created.

(Sources: email tasks, email taskbox)

Now, on to Jott. After creating an account, one can setup “recipients.” This allows you to speak the person’s name (or even an arbitrary word or phrase that you have setup as the recipient) and the message that you annotate will sent to the e-mail address OF that recipient.

So in Bart HR’s case, he likely setup a recipient called “Next Week” with the e-mail address of ‘dropbox+nextweek@1234143.bart.highrisehq.com‘

A phone call would go something like this: Jott (pre-recorded operator):* Who would you like to jott? *You: Next week Jott: Okay, what would you like to jott? You: Feed my dog.

Jott transcribes the message, looks up the email address of the recipient and sends it on it’s way. Highrise, meanwhile, receives the message. Sees that it is a task item for next week and creates the task, assigning it to next week.

The one down side, If I’m not mistaken, there is no way to add the “Jotted” data to a subject line, which is what highrise takes the task text from and so, we are stuck with the default task label of whatever Jott uses as it’s subject lines.

Personal thought: Jott likely uses a bunch of people in India to translate their submissions. I only believe this due to a few incidents that I’ve experienced, such as making a mistake while talking, going back and correcting it only to find that the transcribed version did not have the mistake. Sort of like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, maybe?

I hope someone finds this useful!

This is a really cool idea since I spend so much time driving around. I was playing around with this tonight and I got it to work with an email that was addressed task+todayblah,blah,blah but not with dropbox+todayblah,blah blah, like the example given above: So in Bart HR’s case, he likely setup a recipient called “Next Week” with the e-mail address of ‘dropbox+nextweek@1234143.bart.highrisehq.com‘

So…I’m thinking that Highrise doesn’t let me use the ‘dropbox’ address because it doesn’t know where the email is coming from?? I do see the post above about adding the email that Jott is sending from but I’m not sure where I can see that. Also, if you put that email in, I’m assuming those would be attached to a contact called ‘Jott’ (not like that’s a bad thing but I wonder how it’s handled).

I have to admit I’ve struggled a little bit to understand exactly what emails I can and can’t send to Highrise.

Slant, very cool that you took the time out to write that tutorial, I would not have even TRIED it until you spelled it out. It is a really cool idea…

You’re most welcome, Cindy! I’m glad at least someone got some use out of it. ;)

Tried this out but had a few issues. What I figured out is that instead of using the dropbox info that if you use the task info it works perfectly.
So task+today@12345678.yoursitename.highrisehq.com was set up in Jott as first name Highrise, last name Today. A simple call to Jott and it’s a task!