Comments on: Configuring Google Voice as a Jott / reQall Replacement

By: carl

carl — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:59:40 +0000

Great tip, thanks Johnny!

By: neeli

neeli — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:40:34 +0000

Google Voice Service Takes Aim At Telephone Companies: It converts voice mails to text, and even better…nice article

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:14:53 +0000

For those of you wishing to leave yourself a message without having to wait for 4 rings you can check “Ring My:” under settings but then unselect all your Phones. This will then reduce the number of rings to 1 ring, perfect timing to hit * if you want to access GV Menu, but also not to long a wait. I can’t take credit I got the idea from:
http://www.drewvogel.com/2010/04/05/google-voice-transcription/

By: carl

carl — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:02:12 +0000

Brian - Good suggestion, that's probably the best way to get SMS reminders for your appointments. There are even ways to synchronize other calendars like Outlook to G'Cal. The SMS reminders I mentioned in the post were more for simple to-do's or ticklers. I was looking for a way to trigger them by voice message since I'm still using an old fashioned rotary cell phone with no mobile web. So far reQall seems to be the easiest way to set up those reminders.

By: Brian Kung

Brian Kung — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:13:07 +0000

As for SMS reminders, that’s something you can do pretty easily in Google Calendar. I don’t know if you intentionally left that out to limit the scope of the article to Google Voice, but Google Calendar regularly shuffles me about in my life =P

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:39:23 +0000

I look forward to your future articles

By: carl

carl — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:41:11 +0000

Victorino – Nice suggestion!

By: Victorino

Victorino — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:57:20 +0000

On top of your precious instructions to configure Google Voice to act like a no-brainer mental notepad I have also added a few filters to my gmail account so that it would sort my notes into folders based on some keyword contents.

Thanks for the tutorial!

By: carl

carl — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:30:15 +0000

Ben – Unfortunately there is no way (yet) to configure the number of rings before going into voicemail. Hopefully that feature gets added soon.

-Carl

By: Ben Tsai

Ben Tsai — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:37:17 +0000

This is awesome. I didn’t think this would work, but logically is should, and it does!

Do you know a way of reducing the number of rings before sending to voicemail? Right now, I have to wait for about 4 rings until I get to voicemail.

Thanks.

By: carl

carl — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:55:30 +0000

Kevin, Aaron – Thanks for your comments, glad to hear that this worked for you.

-Carl

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:46:44 +0000

You rock. This works perfect to replace other similar services.

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:20:58 +0000

BRILLIANT!!! I needed a simple solution and you found it. Works like a champ. Many many thanks…Time to Digg this now.

By: carl

carl — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:34:56 +0000

Thanks Jeffrey, glad to hear it was useful!

By: Jeffrey J Davis

Jeffrey J Davis — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:18:19 +0000

Excellent. I’ve been a paid Jott subscriber since it came out and have been noodling to try to figure out how to do this under Google voice. You punched all the right buttons for me. Thanks much!!