Jott has turned out to be a great tool... but not for blogging.

Back in March, I wrote about Jott in a post entitled Jott: My Head Is Spinning With Ideas And later that day we launched The Jottblog Experiment to test how well Jott would work to create "in the moment" blog posts, and a second post was written... Show Me What You Jott, Baby!

What transpired as a result of The Jottblog Experiment was a change I thought I'd never see.

I have been keeping my to-do lists on yellow legal pads for almost 20 years. In fact, over those 20 years, I've had the exact same routine, broken only momentarily by failed attempts to move my to-do list to the computer. I could never find a system that allowed me the same level of spontenaiety that paper and pen gave me.

The routine was simple.

If the to-do list got full, I'd rewrite my list, leaving off the things that were scratched through and adding the new to-do items that were now scribbled on the list. It helped me to focus on the tasks yet to be done. Sometimes it reminded me of how much I had accomplished and sometimes how much I did not accomplish. And I still have every page of those to-do lists. I often referred back to those sheets of paper to remember a phone number or to recall a name. I could never have dreamed of changing that system. As much as I love digital, when it came to to-do lists, it was all analog, all the time. 

Then came Jott and Vitalist. I wrote the following over at The Jottblog Experiment on April 22... 

"Vitalist and Jott might be the perfect combination of two websites. I am just beginning to test this but i found a great article that I was pointed to last night in a link from Technorati from Jott’s website that is just making sense so lets see how that it all works. I have been testing this for the past few days and I like it a great deal. I first read about the possibilities at Shainemata.net in a post entitled, 'Jott-alist.'"

Liking it a great deal turned into getting rid of my 20 year old way of making to-do lists. Jott allows me to add things to my Vitalist to-do list while I'm in the car or when and idea pops in my head, and the Vitalist email address allows me to forward emails that need action to my to do list. I also gave my Vitalist email address to my team members and my wife, so they could add important items to my to-do list for me.

And I don't miss the paper. Because each morning I print out my Vitalist to-do list and take it with me. It has allowed me to keep all of the benefits of my old system and marry them with more efficient digital methods. After 20 years, I've given up the legal pad. I really thought that would never happen.

Today, the Vitalist Blog referenced The Jottblog Experiment.Their post is entitled Voice New Actions To your Vitalist Account with Jott. It gives the three required steps to get up and running with Jott and Vitalist. 

Check it out.