As an internet consultant, I spend an incredible amount of time in the car, or in meetings at clients’ offices or coffee shops (where I can grab some high-speed internet access).
During these times things run through my head, either because I’m purposely thinking about a project, or randomly (more likely!). When I need to remember a thought, especially in the car, I just speed dial 9 to reach reQall, and say what I was thinking.
reQall turns my spoken words into text that shows up in my email, where I can manage it. Or, you can have reQall call you back in the office, or back to my cell phone as text or voice, or a myriad of other options.
Did I say the basic service is FREE?? I love reQall and usually call it 3-4 times a day with thoughts, ideas, and to-dos.
The Background of reQall
reQall is based on memory research done by Sunil Vemuri at the MIT Media Lab in the early 2000s. Vemuri’s research focused on how mobile technology could be used to help people capture their daily experiences and then efficiently catalog that information so that it could be retrieved and used at a later time. The first version of the reQall application became available in January, 2007, when it was launched at the DEMO 07 conference and won a DEMOgod award.
In March 2009, the company introduced a new version of reQall that includes a patent-pending “Memory Jogger” that analyzes various aspects of the user’s current situation (time, location and upcoming calendar events) to provide a dynamically updated display of relevant to-dos and notes. The Memory Jogger proactively provides contextually-relevant reminders rather than relying on the user to seek information by accessing a static to-do list or calendar.
reQall. Try it at www.reQall.com
