With seemingly the entire web worker world being a-twitter these days, it’s sometimes tough to remember that a phone was originally an instrument for sending voice messages. If the folks over at BrainCast have their way, though, you’ll find new uses for your phone as an audio information management device. Many phones these days make it easy to record notes to yourself; what BrainCast adds to the equation is easy management of those notes, so you can actually do something with them later.
After a relatively painless sign-up process, you can enroll up to three of your phone numbers in BrainCast and specify an associated e-mail address for each one. BrainCast then assigns you your own toll-free number and your own RSS feed. If you’re out driving, say, and a thought crosses your mind that you want to remember for later, speed-dial the braincast number and leave yourself a message. By the time you get home, you’ll find an e-mail and an RSS item waiting for you. Both will have a link back to a recording of your message (in .wav format) on the BrainCast site.
The service doesn’t stop there, though. Braincast also gives you a web page for managing all of your messages. You can tag them and take notes on them, send copies to any e-mail address, and throw away the ones that you don’t need any longer. Intriguingly, you can also schedule delayed delivery by phone to any phone number you like, making it possible to set up voice reminders by phone in your own voice. It’s simple, direct, and (at least in the current beta period) free.
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