The little things
Sunday, March 25, 2007 by Emily Boyd
We've added a bunch of improvements to Remember The Milk this week. We hope you like them!
Add tasks to Smart Lists
Smart Lists are one of the most powerful features in RTM: you can create a special list based on criteria that you define, and it's automatically updated as your tasks change. We've now made it possible to not only view your tasks in a Smart List, but add them too.
Tasks added in Smart Lists will use that list's criteria — so if your Smart List contains all your tasks tagged with 'phone', any tasks you add will be automatically tagged with that too.
This is especially cool when your Smart List is based on multiple criteria, such as high priority tasks tagged with phone that are due today. Tasks added to this Smart List will automatically inherit all these properties.
As an added bonus, this feature isn't just limited to Smart Lists — it works when you click on a tag or location in the Task Cloud too (so it's a quick way to add a task with a particular tag/location). More details on how this all works are available on the help page.
Editable Smart List criteria
You can use advanced search operators to define your criteria for a Smart List, so you might end up with a Smart List that looks for tasks like this:
sharedWith:bobtmonkey AND priority:1 AND dueWithin:"1 week" AND tag:bananas NOT tag:apples
(Translation: High priority tasks shared with Bob, due this week, and tagged with bananas not apples.)
But what if you wanted to tweak the criteria to look for tasks tagged with oranges instead of bananas? You can now edit Smart List criteria on the Settings/Lists screen, and tweak to your heart's content.
New advanced search operators
Ever wanted to search your tasks by the date they were added to Remember The Milk? Meet our new advanced search operator, added, and his friends addedBefore, addedAfter, and addedWithin.
You can now perform handy searches like NOT addedWithin:"3 months" to find all those tasks that you added a while back and never quite got around to doing. See the operators listing for more details.
Duplicate tasks
Need to add a task that's similar to one you already have? Save time by duplicating your task (you'll find this option in the 'More Actions' dropdown on the Tasks screen). You can select multiple tasks and duplicate them in one action, too.
Printable search results
Poor old search results. Regular lists and Smart Lists have always had the print feature, but not him. So that search results doesn't feel left out anymore, we've made him printable too. You can now easily print lists of tasks with particular tags/locations from the Task Cloud too.
Thanks, APC Magazine readers!
Thursday, March 22, 2007 by Emily Boyd
Many thanks to all the readers who voted for us in the APC Magazine Internet Technology Awards. We were honoured to be named amongst the finalists for the best web-based application in the consumer category. The award winners were announced last night, and while we didn't win our category, we were thrilled to see the award go to another web application that's developed in Sydney: Google Maps. We built our Locations feature on Google Maps and love their work — congratulations to the team on their award!
Downtime
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 by Emily Boyd
Remember The Milk has been misbehaving this afternoon — we're really sorry about the downtime. We have Bob T. Monkey working as quickly as he can to get things back up and running. We'll keep you posted until we get it fixed.
Update 3:00PM Sydney time: We're up again, however we're still working to diagnose the issue. Please bear with us…
Update, 4:45PM Sydney time: The site will be down for a little bit while we work to fix the issue. Thanks for your patience!
Update, 5:00PM Sydney time: And we're back up again! We have some shiny new replacement hardware this time (what good would Remember The Milk be with bad memory? ;) Once again, we apologise for this outage.
Two new languages available
Saturday, March 3, 2007 by Emily Boyd
Remember The Milk is now available in Hungarian and Norwegian, bringing the total number of available languages to 20. A huge thank you to all of the wonderful translation volunteers who have made this possible!
If you'd like to use the service in Hungarian or Norwegian, you can change your language preference on the Settings screen in your account. Remember The Milk understands due dates and input in these languages — so you can enter Monday, hétfő, or mandag.
Your language not available yet?
We'd love to make the service available in as many of the world's languages as possible. If you have some spare time and would like to help make Remember The Milk available in your language, please sign up for our online translation program (any amount of help is appreciated!).