Have you ever been driving and had a great idea but didn’t have a pen handy to write it down and thus forgot it soon thereafter? Perhaps you’ve needed to take a note or create a reminder but didn’t have any paper nearby? Better yet, what about creating updates to your calendar or to-do lists? If you’ve ever experienced such problems Jott maybe the solutions for you. Jott is a free voice to text service that enables you to take notes on the fly, create reminders and to-do lists, send emails and text messages to your contacts and groups, create blog posts, and even access your favorite web services (i.e. Google Calendar, Twitter, etc. ) via simple voice commands Read more »

One of my new favorite open source applications is a Java based mind-mapping software called FreeMind. In case you haven’t noticed I frequently entertain various random thoughts that sometimes, albeit rarely, stem from a common point of interest. The difficulty lies in organizing these thought patterns or “blueprints” of ideas into a meaningful concept and then describing this concept to another individual.

Not that I have any, but when dealing with complex, multifactorial concepts it is very Read more »