Pronounced Recall. Remember Jott? I wrote about it awhile back and I’ve been using it to send myself reminders, especially when I’m driving. I use my recorder more, but it doesn’t have a reminder function. Jott is changing to a paid service, but they’re leaving a few basic options free and adding a small monthly price to some of the more advanced features. There’s nothing wrong with a company wanting to make money from subscriptions to their service, but it’s tough to compete when someone else is offering the same thing for free.

ReQall is still free. Does email and text message reminders and is very intuitive in putting your reminders in different categories. Such as if you say, “Buy milk”, anything with the word Buy goes automatically into your shopping list.

Just like Jott, you can share reminders and give reminders to your friends that are part of your ReQall list. “Tell Joe to buy beer”. Will send Joe an email reminding him to buy beer.

ReQall can’t update your Twitter, blog or Facebook, but it’s not meant for that. The problem with updating other programs from Jott is that if the transcribing is wrong, you can’t fix it until you get to a computer but if you sent an update to a program like Twitter that can’t changed, you’re out of luck. I tried a few blog posts (on another site) and it worked okay, but unless I wrote it down, read it, and could go back and edit, it may not look or read as well as it could. And if I go though all that trouble, I might as well log on and type it into a regular post.