Bob goes to Google Developer Day
Thursday, May 31, 2007 by Emily Boyd
The entire Remember The Milk team (both of us and the monkey) headed down to the Australian Technology Park this morning for Google Developer Day 2007. Over 400 developers attended the event and some really awesome tech was announced.
RTM was one of six finalists in the "Speed Geeking" competition — we demonstrated how we use Google Maps to visualise tasks, as well as our iGoogle gadget and Google Calendar integration.
Unfortunately, Bob wasn't able to pull off a victory in this competition (he's just one small monkey, after all), but his talents as a world-class code monkey were recognised by his fellow developers, and he was very happy to go home with his finalist award.
Get the milk faster than ever!
Thursday, May 10, 2007 by Omar Kilani
As our user base has grown to more than 200,000 users, we've worked hard over the past 1.5 years to ensure that Remember The Milk always loads as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately, the load times haven't been as fast as we'd like over the last couple of months, but with a lot of quality profiling time, a complete overhaul of our loading process, our recent upgrade and today's performance focused updates, you'll find your initial start up a lot lighter and 2-20x faster (depending on how many tasks you have and how close you are to our servers :), and subsequent loads should be almost instantaneous.
As always, if you ever feel that something in the RTM system isn't running as fast as you'd like, don't hesitate to let us know.
21 useful searches for your tasks
Thursday, May 10, 2007 by Emily Boyd
The advanced search operators in Remember The Milk are pretty powerful, and RTM users have come up with all kinds of creative searches to find the tasks they're looking for. Following are some of the coolest searches that users have shared in the forums, as well as some handy searches that we use ourselves. You can perform these searches by entering the query in the search box, and any of these searches can be saved as Smart Lists.
- Overdue tasks
dueBefore:today - Overdue or due today
dueBefore:tomorrow - Tasks due within a week (include overdue tasks)
dueWithin:"1 week of today" OR dueBefore:today - Tasks due within a week (exclude repeating tasks)
dueWithin:"1 week of today" AND isRepeating:false - Tasks due this calendar week (week ending on Sunday)
dueBefore:Monday - Tasks due next calendar week (week starting on Monday)
dueWithin:"1 week of Monday" - Tasks due this calendar month
dueWithin:"1 month of 1st" - Tasks due or completed today
due:today OR completed:today - Tasks due on a weekend
due:sat OR due:sun - Tasks with no due date
due:never - Tasks with no priority
priority:none - Tasks with any priority (1, 2, or 3)
NOT priority:none - Tasks that haven't been tagged
isTagged:false - Tasks estimated to take less than 20 minutes
timeEstimate:"< 20 min" - Urgent tasks (high priority, overdue, or due within 2 days of today)
priority:1 OR dueBefore:today OR dueWithin:"2 days of today" - Completed within a week
completedWithin:"1 week of today" - Completed this calendar week (week ending on Sunday)
completedWithin:"1 week of Sunday" - Completed last calendar week (week ending on Sunday)
completedWithin:"2 weeks of Sunday" NOT completedWithin:"1 week of Sunday" - Incomplete tasks that were added more than 3 months ago
status:incomplete NOT addedWithin:"3 months of today" - Tasks tagged 'call' that are overdue or due today
tag:call AND dueBefore:tomorrow - All tasks
(Don't enter anything in the search box, just press enter to return all your tasks.)
Many thanks to ranbarton, grawity, mddperkins, fonzerelli, rfrancis, chadcrowell, erik, and all the RTM users who have shared their search wisdom in the forums over the past year!
Gadget improvements
Monday, May 7, 2007 by Emily Boyd
We love gadgets here at Remember The Milk: we've created gadgets for iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage), Google Calendar, and Netvibes. These gadgets are a great way to review and manage your upcoming tasks.
What's new?
We're happy to introduce a much requested feature: you can now customise your gadget to display tasks from a particular list or Smart List. Using a Smart List, you can set your gadget to display tasks based on criteria that you define (for example, tasks with certain priorities, tags, lists, locations, etc).
You can also add multiple RTM gadgets to iGoogle, and customise them to display different tasks — one might show your high priority work tasks, while another might show your errands.
Ready to customise?
This feature is available now for all iGoogle users, and we'll be making it available for Google Calendar and Netvibes users over the coming week. To customise your RTM gadget, click on 'Settings' in the top right corner of the gadget. You can then choose the list or Smart List to display tasks from. Enjoy!
Bob's CeBIT Adventure
Friday, May 4, 2007 by Emily Boyd
This week's been an exciting one for RTM mascot Bob T. Monkey: he attended CeBIT Australia in Darling Harbour. Bob spent time networking with fellow company mascots, made a bunch of new friends, and managed to get himself into some interesting situations…