A few weeks back I wrote two posts (Part I, Part II) on how to transform Gmail into your personal nerve center (PNC). These and other similar how-to posts are consistently among your favorites, so I plan to keep at it. They might not seem immediately relevant to marketing and PR, but believe me they are. We all need survival skills like these to keep up with our increasingly wired customers, the torrent of data they generate and our hectic lives. As you read these, think about the applications for your job.

Jott is a new service that lets you make a note to yourself even when you don't have hands free to write something down. You phone Jott on your cell phone, record a message up to 15 seconds, and Jott will run the message through a voice-to-text application and e-mail you the results.

Quoted: Take notes and do to do lists online or with your mobile phone. Never forget an idea or meeting with hands-free voice dictation and transcription services and group text messaging.

Quoted: Tracks is a web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology.