Using Odeo as an Audio ToDo List

December 14, 2005

If you’re like me you can never find a pen and paper when you need it; even if you manage to lay hands on a scrap or two, who knows what will become of them by the time you remember to add them to your inbox. But you’re almost always near a phone. Heck! I’m looking at two phones sitting on my desk right now. If you’re lucky, your phone comes with a notepad, or a scheduler application, but typing (even with T9 turned on) can be hazzardous to your health, not to mention the number it does on creativity.

So why not make use of Odeo’s Phone Record?


Figure 1: Odeo’s Phone-It-In Setup Screen

It’s simple:

  • Join Odeo
  • Under the Create Tab, click Phone 415-856-0205
  • Set up your phone service (see Figure 1 for detail)
  • Enter the Phone-It-In Sequence into your speed dial.

After the first few times, I decided to try and automate the steps by entering pauses between each checkpoint; it was hit or miss.

Oblique Strategies Widget for Windows Users

David Seah (one of my favorite bloggers) mentioned that he had discovered an Oblique Strategies widget for the Mac OSX Dashboard. I don’t use a Mac, but I have been using the Kapsules (for Windows) Oblique Strategies widget for about six months.

I have even found a similar widget for the Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator).

Fear not you huddled Windows masses, I’m trying to keep up.

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