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Topic: General Mentat Discussion / Mentat/Jott Integration (Voice task capture)

Well, the regular Jott service will work fine with Mentat and only costs $3.95 a month, not $12.95 (the cost for Jott Pro). So you can continue to use it by paying the $48/year, not $150.

Topic: Feature Requests / Email to Mentat

Has there been any progress on email to Task? This would be a GREAT feature in Mentat, and make it much more user friendly. It could even replace some of the functionality that I like(ed) from Jott.

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / Email integration...

Any more progress on this feature? I would love to be able to turn emails (or parts of them) into tasks in Mentat!

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / Mentat/Jott Integration (Voice task capture)

The nice thing about Jott is that it turns your spoken message into text for use in Mentat. Too bad they’re charging the way they are. I’d consider a one time charge, but think $150.00 a year is a bit much.

Topic: Feature Requests / Notes field in Projects

I posted this idea 2 months ago and see no comments on it. Do none of the other users have use for keeping track of notes, etc on a project, or do you do that in yet another program? If that’s the case, I’d love to know what people are using. Thanks.

Topic: Feature Requests / Team sharing

I would like to move from Basecamp to Mentat for my small team. The main issue is that i have to manually invite each team member to each new project, then manually enable each project for Jott. Could you add default settings such that ALL team members are enabled in ALL projects unless I opt them out (eg for my ‘personal’ folder)? This would be awesome. Same goes for auto-enablement for Jott.

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / Mentat/Jott Integration (Voice task capture)

Have you looked into VR+? It does cost, but it is only a one-time cost as compared to the monthly cost of Jott.
http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/detail…

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / Mentat/Jott Integration (Voice task capture)

We’re not happy about Jott’s decision to do this. They didn’t even contact us to let us know that this was happening. We’re still working on an announcement for our users.
-Daniel

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / Mentat/Jott Integration (Voice task capture)

JOTT to MENTAT now costs money.
My letter from Jott was heralding the good news that Jott was now out of BETA. However, it now means being able to Jott to Mentat costs me money.
It’s not much, but could make me look for other options.

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / tasks in shared project

I’m having trouble trying to figure out how tasks work in a shared project. What I want to do is share a grocery list. I can access it on my blackberry and my wife can access it on her iPhone. The problem I’m having is that anything she creates I can’t see and anything I create she can’t see.
Part of the problem seems to involve the assigning of tasks. Is there anyway to see a task that is not assigned to you. If I assign a task to her through the website, it is immediately gone from my view and tasks that she created, she is unable to see. I’m on a Mac, she’s using XP. Any ideas??

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / Email integration...

Hi,
Often I receive emails that I need to convert into tasks, I am using Entourage 2008, is there a way to achieve this with Mentat?
Regards,
François

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Server down

That’s six days without being able to access my data. I’m now deleting the bookmark for this site from my browser. Too bad – I thought the system had promise and the iPhone application looked cool. Good luck guys – hope at some point you discover that offering a web-based service is more than writing software.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Server down

Hi Dan, I emailed for support, but no change. Thanks.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Server down

srogers send me a support email at support@brainmurmurs.com and we’ll see what’s going on. The service is up and running so it may be a specific problem with your user account. We’ll get this handled.
-Daniel

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Server down

Hi Dan – the service is still down for me.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Server down

I actually went camping with my wife and kids this weekend (first time in about 4 years). The service is apparently up now and data seems to be intact. I’ll check with our provider and see if they had any technical issues this weekend.
-Daniel

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Server down

Hi – I have been unable to access my data since Friday. How often do you guys have this kind of down time?

Topic: Feature Requests / Reports

It would also be nice to be able to print a report that not only shows the current progress, but also the remaining open tasks and closed tasks. Thanks!

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / How do I create projects???

I had the same problem. I finally figured out that “Home” is the same as “Mentat” in the upper left hand corner. Click there and it will take you to the page that manages your project names. In the bottom left corner, you can click the button to add new projects.

Topic: General Mentat Discussion / How do I create projects???

Sorry, I am new to mentat, and I cannot figure out how to create a new project. Can someone help?
Peter

Topic: Feature Requests / sub-projects or a temp fix

That’s a good idea, and certainly one of the ways we’ve considered. We will definitely give it some thought as we work toward that feature.

Topic: Feature Requests / Loading task categories globally for all projects

Thanks,
Contexts should work really well for that feature idea. Let us know how it goes.

Topic: Feature Requests / Loading task categories globally for all projects

The functionality that drives the new “contexts” support seems like a great step in the direction I proposed initially, since all my projects are now aware of my global Contexts list.
Nice job, BrainMurmurs!

Topic: Feature Requests / sub-projects or a temp fix

Hey – I’m really liking the addition of subprojects within the Web client.
Within the Mentat for Blackberry client: Are there plans to differentiate the way subprojects appear, from the way regular projects appear? (In other words, will subprojects appear “one click down” from their parent projects, before reaching the task level? This’d be rad.)
Thanks.

Topic: Feature Requests / Agenda

Just dropping in now that I have a chance, since the Mentat updates and new products went out.
Thanks for the feedback here.
Aria and Aria Touch for the iPhone/iPod touch have the option to add tasks to your Agenda from within the Task view if that is more to your liking.
Now that Mentat has Context support you can give context to a task from within a project too.
We’ll keep thinking about ways to improve in future versions. Good luck with all your tasks.