It’s as easy as calling Jott.com and sending a note to yourself.  It’s voice to text conversion, and it’s free for this use.  There is a higher level of usage that you can purchase, and we’ll talk about that in other posts.  However, for reminders and notes to yourself, this is a great service. The notes and reminders can be accessed as text, as well as played as a voice file from your Jott.com account dashboard. You can also file them away in lists there for future access.  You’ll get a daily email with your notes and reminders from Jott as well.  These are all the free services.

If you want to pay $3.95/month, you get a lot more functionality.  You can set up some of your contacts with their email or text message address and send them messages with your voice.  Jott converts your short message to text and it shows up in their email or on their cell phone.  This is a great way to answer messages when you don’t have time to get into a phone conversation. In the paid account, you also get each of your Jotts as an individual email, something I find very valuable.

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I pay the $3.95/month for the Jott paid level account because I want a separate email for every Jott.  I will show you the basic paid account screens in this video, but I don’t use them much.  By receiving every Jott as a separate email, I’m able to set up Filters (Rules) in my Gmail to automatically recognize key words in the Jotts and take action on the emails, filing them away appropriately.

In another Premium post and video, I’ll take you through what it takes to get that done with Gmail.  Procedures would be similar for Outlook or any email client that allows you to make rules or filters to handle email.

Just set yourself up an account at Xpenser.com, and you’re in business.  Then you set up what are called “Reports.”  They are like expense categories, and allow you to group your expenses by type for the IRS.  It isn’t that typing in the entries is any easier than placing them into any other bookkeeping system.  It’s all the other ways in which you can get the expense entries in:

• Use your Twitter account, sending expenses in that will post for you with the proper amount and category.
• Text in expenses from your cell phone.
• Email in your entries from any computer or your Blackberry.
• Call them in using a Jott.com account, and they’ll convert to text and post.
• It will also track vehicle mileage, converting it to the amount for deduction.
• You can do the positive side of income as well.

Think about how great this is.  You stop by the office supply on your way to an appointment.  You pick up some computer paper and other items.  As you walk to the car, you call into your Jott account and tell it to Jott to Xpenser.  Give the details and the amount.  When you get home, just throw the receipt into a box, because your accounting is done!

**Check out the video below for an overview of how Xpenser works.  You can enlarge it to full screen with the small screen icon at the lower right.

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