Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Bring your tasks to the desktop with GeekTool

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 by Emily Boyd

GeekTool is a handy utility for Mac OS X that allows you to embed all kinds of stuff (specifically files, images, or command output) on your Mac desktop. Seeking a way to show Remember The Milk tasks on the desktop, RTM user dws90 has written and shared a script for GeekTool to do just that:

Remember The Milk with GeekTool

Pretty cool! Check out dws90's forum post for the script download and more details. The download itself includes helpfully detailed instructions on getting set up. dws90, you're our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week — thanks for sharing this! :)

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