Twitter talk
Saturday, July 14, 2007 by Emily Boyd
It's been very cool to watch rtm's ever-growing list of Twitter friends since we launched Remember The Milk for Twitter this week. We were excited to see that people have already come up with some really creative ways to interact with RTM on Twitter, and just wanted to share some of the interesting stuff that we've come across.
Twit2RTM Dashboard Widget for OS X
Takashi Nomura has created an awesome widget called Twit2RTM for sending direct messages to RTM from your Dashboard. Just enter the name and (optional) due date for your task, or enter one of the commands, and press the 'Send' button to direct message rtm.
Twittering with Quicksilver
Another one for Mac users (PC users are going to be jealous :) Baron VC has a great post, The Ultimate Remember The Milk Setup for Your Mac, describing how to set up Twitter with Quicksilver to make interacting with RTM only a keyboard shortcut away. We're fans of anything that makes it faster to add your tasks.
In other news, we've been improving our handling of due dates for tasks added via Twitter (you can enter a task and due date in one sentence such as, "return library books in 2 weeks", and RTM will figure out what you mean). If you find that RTM gets the due date wrong or something unexpected happens, please let us know and help us to improve this feature. Thanks!
Back in a bit...
Tuesday, July 10, 2007 by Emily Boyd
The site is temporarily unavailable due to some hardware issues (it looks like the new hardware we installed over the weekend might be playing up). We're working to get everything back up and running again as quickly as possible. More updates to come -- thanks for your patience.
Update 5:45PM Sydney time: We're back! The hardware that caused the problem has now been replaced -- we'll be keeping an eye on things to make sure everything is running smoothly once again.
Twitter your tasks
Monday, July 09, 2007 by Omar Kilani
We're big fans of Twitter, an awesome service which poses the simple question, "What are you doing?", and lets you post your activities and thoughts (so long as they're 140 characters or less). You can send updates to Twitter via SMS, IM, the website, and third-party applications, making it easy to update from anywhere.
Those of you already Twittering may be familiar with a neat feature: the ability to send direct (private) messages to your friends on Twitter. We were playing around with Twitter and thought to ourselves, "Selves, wouldn't it be cool if you could add RTM as a friend and talk to it as though it were your personal tasks assistant?".
You can see where this is headed, right?
Introducing Remember The Milk for Twitter
Add rtm as your friend on Twitter, and you can add new tasks and interact with your existing tasks by direct message. Oh, and you can get reminders via Twitter too.
Adding tasks via Twitter
Twitter asks, "What are you doing?"; RTM asks, "What should you be doing?". Just send rtm a direct message with the name of a task and (optionally) when it's due. The task will be added to your inbox, and RTM will remind you about it later.
pick up the milk
call jimmy at 5pm tomorrow
return library books in 2 weeks
(You can send a direct message on Twitter by posting an update with d rtm your message -- by SMS, IM, the web update box, or a third-party app like Twitterrific. So, you'd add a task with d rtm pick up the milk.)
What should your friends be doing?
Organising yourself isn't enough? Don't stop there then! Send rtm a direct message with your friend's Twitter username and a task for them, and the task will be sent to their RTM inbox (they'll get notified on Twitter too).
@bobtmonkey buy more bananas
Command your tasks
rtm is at your service and will respond to various commands that you send it by direct message. For instance, you can tell it to complete a particular task for you:
!complete call jimmy
Don't remember what you're supposed to be doing today? rtm knows -- just send a direct message to find out.
!today
Out and about, and forgotten what's on your shopping list? No problem, just direct message rtm via SMS and you'll receive your list back.
!getlist shopping
See the list of commands to find out what else is possible (check out the handy shortcuts for commands too).
Ready to set it up?
Want to get started, or learn more about how it all works? Head on over to the Remember The Milk for Twitter page to find out more and complete the quick and easy set up process.
Scheduled maintenance
Saturday, July 07, 2007 by Emily Boyd
Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, starting at 2pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). The site will be down for up to an hour. We'll do our best to complete this maintenance as quickly as possible, and we'll post again here once we're done. Thanks for your patience!
Update 2:00PM Sydney time: Unfortunately we're still waiting on some new hardware, so we need to postpone this maintenance. Hopefully it will be happening later today -- I'll post again once we have a new time.
Update 4:30PM Sydney time: We're rescheduling this maintenance for this evening at 6:30pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). Sorry for any inconvenience.
Update 7:30PM Sydney time: W00t! Maintenance complete :)
Speak Japanese?
Friday, July 06, 2007 by Emily Boyd
Last month we launched the official Remember The Milk Japan Blog at blog.rememberthemilk.jp
We want to thank blogger Hiroshi Miyazaki, who's been doing an awesome job covering RTM news and providing valuable tips on using Google Gears for offline access, using the mobile version, and sending tasks and lists into Remember The Milk via email. Some of the highlights:
- Tips ： オフライン機能の使い方
- Tips ： 携帯電話からタスクを管理する
- Tips ： メール送信でタスクを追加する（受信箱のメールアドレス）
- Tips ： メール送信でタスクを追加する（インポート用のアドレス）
If you speak Japanese, check it out!