Brain Murmurs
Guerrilla computing in the mountains of Seattle
| Overview | Life with Mentat | ||||||
Most of us have to wear many different hats in life: spouse, parent, employee, manager, partner, friend. Frequently keeping on top of all of the tasks we are responsible for can be an overwhelming, full time job in itself. A growing awareness of this fact led us to develop Mentat.
Using Mentat is like having a super intelligent executive assistant that knows everything you have going on in your professional and private life, and can be reached anywhere. As you work through your list of daily tasks, it passes you alerts about new items and comments submitted by other people in your network. It also forwards tasks that you define to other people on your team.
No matter how much you have going on, all of it can be beautifully organized from the Agenda view.
Find balance between work and your personal life
Mentat is the only professional organizer designed to let you manage work-related tasks and tasks outside of work in one unified interface. Since Mentat shows you all of the projects of which you are a member, you have full visibility into your whole life, without running the risk of exposing private data to people in your workplace, or vice versa.
The Eye of the Hurricane
Keeping track of everything that we have to do can become an overwhelming process. The Mentat Agenda helps you focus on the current tasks at hand, drawing from a mix of your personal and work-related projects to flesh out a complete itinerary for your day.
Instead of tracking work-related tasks in one system and personal tasks in another, you can arrange tasks such as "Look up the dentist office's phone number," "call the dentist," and "prepare company investor prospectus" all side by side.
Integrated Communication
Mentat's event framework turns the Agenda into a full-fledged communication tool. You can view comments on your tasks from other Project members associated without leaving the current page.
You can also create and assign new tasks as soon as you think of them. When other tasks are assigned to you the immediately show up at the top of your Agenda for you to do, defer, or delegate to someone else on your team.
Say what's on your mind
The Mentat service is tightly integrated with Jott's speech-to-text transcription service. If you're on the road and remember something you need to buy, or a blog topic to write about, simply speed dial Jott on your cell phone, name a project, and dictate a quick summary. Your task will be on your desktop when you get back to your computer.
The perfect shopping partner
Mentat makes it easy to keep track of the items we can never remember once we're actually at the place where we can get them. Add entries for groceries, videos, or anything else you need as you think of them via the web interface or via Jott. If you are using one of our mobility options you can refer to the list at the store and mark off the items as you pick them up.
Task team play
Share lists with housemates, your spouse, or the rest of your family. Everyone can contribute to lists from where every they are. Create and assign items to each other, once you reach the store, you can pull up the lists on your iPhone or BlackBerry and see what items have been still need to be picked up, and mark them off as you get them. The list will be updated for everyone else to see.
Powerful Simplicity
We've put a lot of effort into making the Mentat application as simple as possible to use. At rest, the browser presents you with your task information and little more.
To change a task, move your mouse over it - its controls appear. Click a control, and a display opens up, letting you browse its details, reassign it to someone else, or simply jot down a few notes to yourself. Click the control again and the display is dismissed.
Mentat is FREE
The Mentat service is available free of charge and is available for you to use *now*. Head on over to our site, set up an account, and start getting things done.
Mentat is a service of Brain Murmurs, Incorporated. Find us on the web at http://brainmurmurs.com or call us at 206-216-3923.
