The Net Effect Blog

A few months ago, we wrote on this blog about how to set up a Jott.com account to send messages to your Vitalist inbox. It worked great but was a bit confusing to set up and get working right. Jott has since released a public API and we saw an opportunity to make the whole process easier.

You can now simply add Vitalist as a Jott Link to your Jott account. No more messing with creating a Vitalist contact and email address. Here is how to get started:

1. Login to your Jott account and click the Jott Links tab. (if you do not have an account, you can sign up free here)

2. Click Add next to the Vitalist logo in the Jott Links list.

3. Click Save or change the name of the link. (the default is Vitalist, if you already have another contact for Vitalist, you will need to change or delete it)

4. Enter your Vitalist login information and click Activate. (this is only required once)

Now you are ready to Jott to Vitalist.

When asked “Who do you want to Jott?” say “Vitalist”, speak your message, and it will be sent to your inbox!

A couple of weeks ago, we were informed on our user forums about a cool new way of adding actions to Vitalist through a website called Jott. Jott makes it easy to send new actions to your Vitalist account with voice messages. The messages are transcribed to text and emailed to your inbox.

These are the steps to send new actions to your Vitalist account with Jott:

1. Sign up for a free Jott account
2. Add your Vitalist email adress (username-pin@vitalist.com) as a contact in Jott
3. Call Jott’s 1-800 number and leave a new action for your Vitalist contact

It is that easy. The new action should show up in your Vitalist inbox within a few minutes.

To read more, visit shainemata.net and the jottblog experiment.