Although my interest in Evernote has waned as of late, I thought I should mention that v1.1 for Mac was released today. There are several new features, the biggest being PDF support. You can read all about it on the Evernote Blog.

6 am to 9 pm, California time, today

From Evernote Blog:

The new Evernote closed beta is about two months old and we’ve just passed an important milestone: our first one million notes! During this time, we’ve made lots of improvements to the service and we’ll be announcing a few more big things in the next couple of weeks.  Stay tuned.

To celebrate (and to do some stress testing on our registration servers), we’re giving away instant beta accounts to everyone who clicks on this secret url (http://preview.evernote.com/Registration.action?code=1MN0tes) from 6 am to 9 pm, California time, today.  If you miss the time window but want an account, just sign up using the normal beta application and we’ll send you an invitation soon.

I’m trying a new service called Jott. Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments. It is yet another player in the organization and GTD game. Jott has a bit of a different approach, though. Jott is not a desktop application. It’s a web based app, that stores messages you send to it by calling a toll-free number. It will transcribe your voice and and list your notes in your Jott inbox. You can manually add Jotts while logged into your account, as well. Jott also allows you to set up groups and send e-mails through the service by transcribing your voice message on the toll-free number.

I tried the voice transcription service. I followed the instructions which suggested speaking clearly and slowly and to my surprise, the transcribed message in my inbox was very accurate. Jott seems like it would be useful for transcribing written pages that you don’t feel like typing. The fall-back is that Jott only allows 30 second messages; so you may have to make multiple calls.

LifeHacker posted a useful way to tie Jott’s service with Evernote. And, like Evernote, Jott is in beta testing mode right now. But unlike EverNote, you do not need an invitation. Both are free while in beta, but don’t expect that to last forever.

I have several Evernote invitations left.  E-Mail me if you’re interested.