reQall just released their popular free voice-to-text service for the Blackberry platform. Using reQall you dial a phone number or use the Blackberry voice recorder to have your spoken words turned into reminders or tasks. The three main categories of reQall- Time, Things, People – can be integrated to your Blackberry calendar, notepad or tasks via a special task menu once your data has been transcribed. Unlike Jott which recently introduced a subscription model, the reQall service remains free. The main difference between Jott and reQall is that Jott integrates directly with more services like Google Calendar while reQall primarily organizes your items to their service.

Using the browser on your BlackBerry, go to http://www.reqall.com/blackberry and download the reQall for BlackBerry application. This is currently a beta version.

After downloading, select one of the green buttons to sign up for a free reQall account. You can sign up using voice or text.

If you already have a reQall account, use the blue button, Log in to my existing account.

reQall consists of three main screens: Time, Things and People.

Time – Displays your information organized by due date: Today, Soon (within the next week), Overdue and Later (over a week away).

Things – To-Do, Notes, Shopping Lists

People – Share notes with other reQall users (friends)

Blackberry Menu Options:

Press the Menu key at any time to bring up a context-sensitive reQall menu. Menu options include:

* Add by calling - Lets you call reQall and add a new item by following voice prompts.
* Add by text – Lets you use the keyboard to type in a new item.
* Add by voice – Lets you speak into the recorder to create a new item.
* Add due date – Lets you set a due date for an item.
* Back – Goes back to the full list of items.
* Check spelling – Very useful when typing on a small keypad!
* Close – Closes the reQall application but leaves you logged in for further use.
* Collapse – Collapses an expanded group of items.
* Collapse all – Collapses all expanded groups of items.
* Find – Lets you search for all of the items that contain a certain word or phrase.
* Log out – Closes the application and logs you out.
* Mark as completed – Changes “Pending” items to “Completed.”
* Mark as pending – Changes “Completed” items to “Pending.”
* Next – Displays the details for the next item in the list.
* Remove due date – Removes the due date for an item.
* Select – Changes the cursor from insert mode to highlight mode, so that you can select text to copy and paste.
* Settings – Brings up the Settings screen, where you can change your country and connection type.
* Share with – Allows you to select a reQall buddy to share an item with. (Note: If you share an item that has already been shared, the item is deleted from the first person’s list.)
* Share with no one – Removes an item from the list of the person you had previously shared it with.
* Show details – Brings up a detailed view of the selected item.
* Sync now – Performs an immediate manual synchronization (if a data connection is available).

Here is a quick summary of the voice commands that reQall for Blackberry understands:

reQall for Blackberry (beta) is available now via direct download to your device.

reQall for Blackberry via Blackberryunderground

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