WYWO: Telephone messages by email

WYWO (“While you were out”) is a stand-alone app that sends telephone messages as emails. No more little slips of paper.

Using this brings telephone messages into Mail.app‘s Inbox with all your other emails. (Not least, very excellent from a GTD “sorting stuff” perspective).

WYWO offers you a dialog screen with all the expected telephone message options:

It is fully integrated with Address Book so picking the recipient’s email address is easy.

And the end result is a nice email ready to be dealt with when you return to your computer:

Of course, you could do the same thing with just a normal email, but it would take me longer to do it that way. It does take the Office Manager longer to do it that way.

WYWO comes with English, German and Dutch localisations, is freeware and is available from the developer’s web site.

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Tags: Address Book, gtd, mail.app, telephone

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6 Responses to “WYWO: Telephone messages by email”

1. Dan Warne says:
   December 13th, 2005 at 8:38 am

   Ahaha, love the example message. I can see the response several days later: “Tim… my !@#%%# anti-spam filtered out all the ‘urgent’ messages from my wife… I’ve just had the divorce papers served on me…”

2. Tim says:
   December 13th, 2005 at 10:53 am

   Well, it relieves the tedium a little ;-)

3. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Statistical Celebration / Weekly Update says:
   December 20th, 2005 at 12:15 am

   [...] WYWO (’While you were out’ — a telephone messaging app that works well with Mail.app) was added to the Miscellaneous Apps section. [...]

4. Xochi says:
   June 16th, 2006 at 1:48 am

   This app does not work for me. Messages don’t send. Address book does not fill in automatically. The email addresses to contact the developer bounce back and there is no documentation for trouble-shooting etc.

   I love the idea of this app and could really use it. If anyone knows of a similar one please let me know.

5. Tim says:
   June 21st, 2006 at 12:22 am

   Have you tried emailing the developer – wywo@frank-blome.de ?

6. Vince LaMonica says:
   April 7th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

   This looks like a cool app to check out, but I can’t find it anywhere to download. :-( Anyone have an updated URL that one might be able to download this from?

   Thanks!

   /vjl/

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