Rethinking Reminders
November 30, 2007We’ve made a slight change in the system to help improve our voice recognition’s ability to understand a.m. and p.m. No more setting that reminder for 8:30 a.m. and getting it at 8:38 p.m. (Oops!)
When you call 866-JOTT-123 and say “Reminder”, you will now be prompted to say the day, then a.m./p.m., then your message. Let us know how this is working for you!
I look forward to trying this out. I’ve gotten into the habit of saying “8:38 in the morning” but “8:38 pm.”
But, will the reminder come at 8:38 or 15 minutes before? My preference would be at 8:38 (or at least configurable in the settings)…
Comment by Beau — December 1, 2007 @ 12:18 pm
The reminder will still come 15 minutes before, that part hasn’t changed. We are currently working on reshuffling and thinking user options/settings, so it good to know that is an option you would like to see!
Comment by Evan — December 3, 2007 @ 10:59 am
Any suggestions on how to create recurring appointments?
Comment by Matt — December 6, 2007 @ 7:25 pm
I’m on the fence with the am/pm thing. If it’s noon, and I’m setting a reminder for 7:00 today, specifying ‘pm’ is a bit redundant. I like how it ‘knew’ before whether I meant am or pm.
Guess I can’t have everything!
Comment by Brad — December 18, 2007 @ 7:16 pm
I realize I’m late to the game here, but I don’t often set reminders. Here’s the way I want it to work. All I say is “8:38″, and Jott assumes I mean the next one, be it a.m. or p.m. So, on the voice recognition side, if you hear me say something after the 8:38 and you can’t tell if it’s a.m. or p.m. it’s probably p.m. unless it’s morning time and I’m setting a reminder for today.
Comment by Travis — December 18, 2007 @ 11:17 pm
Ultimately I am looking for something similar to Google Calendar’s “QuickAdd” feature but works over the phone.
If the voice recognition or NLP is not totally accurate yet, maybe you should ask the human to be more clear — say “9 o clock in the morning” in full sentence or some other long, less ambiguous sentence.
That way you don’t have to break it up into small challenge/responses that take up too much time in total:
“what time?”
“9 o clock”
-processing-
“am or pm?”
“am”
-processing-
I have in mind something analogous what Palm did with Graffiti when handwriting recognition is not accurate. The human is more capable of adapting to the machine, as long as the goal is accomplished — that is to get random reminders off my head and into a trusted system.
Right now it seems like Jott’s reminder is more bureaucratic than before.
Comment by Roger — December 19, 2007 @ 10:26 am
Have you tried out the Jott Link to Google Calendar? That uses the Quick Add feature
Comment by Evan — December 19, 2007 @ 10:47 am
I like the change, though it seems I’d change the sequence.
Reminder..
..What Day..
…What Hour and Minute
….AM or PM…
As I type this, I see the flow problem, but must say your fix is better than how it started out.
Great job…keep it going!
Tim
Comment by Tim — December 19, 2007 @ 9:08 pm
Feature request - I’d like to be able to configure reminders to only come through email and not through SMS. This is how I have my regular Jotts set up. Seems like it should be an option for reminders as well. Thanks.
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