Service for the forgetful
If you have trouble keeping track of all the things you’re supposed to do, Mike Elgan has a recommendation. In two columns at Computerworld, he describes a free service called reQall and its additional paid service reQall Pro. Elgan writes:
I use the voice-recognition feature mainly. I just launch the reQall app on my iPhone, press the “Add by voice” button, and start talking. If I say “talk to Kevin about upgrading my laptop,” reQall transcribes my voice into text and adds my words to my “Today” list on the reQall web site and also on the phone itself. It’s there when I go looking for it. But if I say “talk to Kevin about upgrading my laptop tomorrow at 10am,” then my phone beeps tomorrow at 10am with my reminder.
reQall transforms even a forgetful, scatterbrained person like me into a highly organized guy who pretty much never forgets anything.
In a follow-up column, Elgan says:
What is reQall, exactly? Well, it’s a service with both free and paid versions (both very powerful) that makes sure you don’t forget things. You interface with reQall on the Web, via cell phone, e-mail or Short Messaging Service. You choose.
He describes how the service has added a feature that organizes his activity and goes on to say:
The reQall service is only the latest and probably the most sophisticated cell phone-based service to change how our brains manage information.
And:
The new version has yet another “killer feature,” which truly brings reQall into the realm of science fiction. It’s called Memory Jogger, and it’s baked into reQall, always working quietly behind the scenes. The Memory Jogger technology looks at a wide range of criteria, such as the time of day, what’s on your calendar or your physical location (it uses your phone’s GPS) to figure out what to remind you of, and when. The reQall Memory Jogger is so eerily intelligent that it feels almost like a human assistant is looking out for you.
Elgan then talks about how he thinks the cell phone with Internet connectivity is changing the way we think. Whether you agree with Elgan or not, his description is thought-provoking.
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