Software Review: ReQall for your brain

It's time for another DigitalLifestyle.tv software review. This time I take a look at a web app to keep your sh*t in order. Are you someone who forgets pretty much everything (except to bring your iPhone with you at all times)? If you are (I'm not) ReQuall is for you.

Cost breakdown: FREE

ReQall is a web based organization platform with a social netowrking tie-in (what doesn't these days). The web end is very web 2.0 offering To-Do's, shopping lists, notes, photographic memory (what?!?!), and contacts. It has email, IM, calendar, RSS, and text message integration (pretty much covers all means of communication).

To-Do's, shopping lists, notes and contacts are pretty straight forward. Anyone who's used a pen and paper understand what this is all about. Photographic memory is a pretty slick feature that allows you to link to a Picassa (thank you Google) web album so you can remember stuff. I like to think of it as an idiots guide to shopping. For example, if you need cereal you can put cereal on your to-do list (BORING) OR you can take a picture of the cereal box after you finish it and then email the picture to your picassa web album which will sync to your ReQall and BAM, you've got a picture shopping list. I'm sure there are other things you can do with it too...

All joking aside, I really do like this next feature. ReQall has integrated voice access so you don't need to wait for Edge to add something to your shopping list. Instead you can dial into your ReQall and speak your action and item. ReQall then places your voice action into the appropriate section of your lists. I tried this feature out and didn't run into any usability issues.

Props to ReQall for getting their iPhone optimized page right. I don't need a special URL like m.losemymindrememberingthisurl.com or mobile.nonsense.iphone.com. ReQall site recognizes you're using an iPhone and redirects you to their iPhone optimized site . . . lets be honest, this is the way it should work.

In all, I'm not sure how much I'll end up using this software but it is pretty slick and the voice integration takes it to the next level. I think you should give it a shot . . . those folks at QTech put out a polished Beta.