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Tasks received from Jott are awkward

andrewminer says:
I've been using Jott and RTM together for a while now by having Jott send email to my RTM email address. The annoyance of doing this is that you have the "(Jott to self)" text in front of all your messages, and a giant note with a bunch of goofy HTML. I was quite excited to see 'official' support for linking Jott and RTM as I thought it would solve these problems. Unfortunately, it seems to have made it worse in that I now get *even more* junk text in my tasks, and the weird HTML is *still* included as a note. On top of that, I now *also* receive an email in my regular inbox!

The way I'd love for this to work is: I call Jott, say my RTM keyword, dictate a message, and hang up. I then receive a new task in my chosen list which has *ONLY* the text I spoke as the task name, and *NO* notes or other email.

Thanks for the hard work in the new update; I love the other new features!
Posted at 5:22pm on November 15, 2007
lwallach says:
I've used Jott and don't experience what you are. Sure, I get a confirmation email from Jott that the Jott was sent, but I'm guessing you can turn this off in Jott? As for extra text/html going into notes... never seen it. I wonder if you talk for more than a certain amount of time it just pushes some of the text to a note, since it's possible the title field for an RTM task is only 50 characters, or 100, or whatever, and beyond that it just needs to put the text somewhere else. Have you tried this will different tasks/due dates/tags? Is it the long jott's that have the issue, or any one?
Posted 17 years ago
andrewminer says:
It happens no matter what I do, every time. I'll dig around in my Jott settings to see if they've added a flag or something so I can disable it.
Posted 17 years ago
lwallach says:
I wonder if there is something messed up with your jott account or with the connection you set up between jott and rtm? You might try removing that connection and starting over, and if that doesn't work, try creating a new Jott account and see if the same thing happens?
Posted 17 years ago
andrewminer says:
I see what the problem was. I still had it set up to send email, and that seemed to be causing confusion. I changed my Jott settings not to send email to my RTM email account, and the task showed up in RTM just as I would like. Thanks for the advice, lwallach!
Posted 17 years ago
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