Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Avoiding impulse shopping
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 by Andrew Conkling
This week's tip, shared by miquelmartin, offers a way to keep yourself from buying something as soon as you see it:
Whenever I get all enthusiastic about buying something, I find it helps to keep my fingers off it, and make a task such as "Consider buying this" due the next day. If I'm still interested then, I can make a far better case for buying it!
Thanks for sharing this tip, miquelmartin! You're our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dinner planning with Remember The Milk
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 by Andrew Conkling
We hear about a lot of different things that Remember The Milk users keep track of with their tasks. This week's tip, shared by erlang, shows how you can use your tasks to manage your family's meals:
First, me and my wife have a shared list in Remember The Milk, this list is called Dinners.
First time we did type in seven dishes (as tasks). We first added the needed ingredients to our shopping list. This means, all uncompleted tasks in this list, are dishes that we either already have all the ingredients for, or that we plan on shopping all the needed ingredients for very soon – we usually do the dinner planning right before going to the grocery store.
Then we put due dates usually for all of the next 7 days. We may still have a number of dishes (uncompleted tasks) without due dates; which means that we have all the ingredients and may swap if we feel like. The list will look something like this:
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Efficient errands with tagging and Smart Lists
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 by Andrew Conkling
This week's tip, shared by dina.demaio, will help any frequent shoppers make the most of their time out.
There have been many times when I'd get home from Target and look at my grocery list, only to realize that I could have picked up the essentials (diapers, milk) at Target. But noooo, now I'd have to make a separate trip.
It happened one time too often, and finally I'd had enough.
I set up a series of Smart Lists – hardware, grocery, department, costco. They're all set to show items from a third "master" list that are tagged with the corresponding Smart List name(s) and "need". So now, batteries, diapers, etc. are tagged with all of the places they can be bought, along with "need".
This way, all my shopping lists are cross-referenced, and I'm running fewer errands – I'm saving time, fuel and my remaining sanity.
Thanks for sharing this tip, dina.demaio! You're our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.
Do you have a suggestion for our weekly Tips & Tricks post? Got an interesting set-up or idea? Head over to the Tips & Tricks forum, add a new topic, and let us know how you use Remember The Milk. Each week we'll give away a 1 year Pro account to the user whose idea inspires the Tips & Tricks Tuesday blog post for that week.
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Join the team: Systems Administrator
Thursday, September 9, 2010 by Omar Kilani
Do you spend your days thinking of the perfect way to automate deployment and monitoring of systems? Do thoughts of unpackaged files send shivers down your spine? Do you know your puppets from your chefs?
We have a full-time position available for a Systems Administrator at Remember The Milk. If this sounds like you, and you'd like to join us in our quest to make the world more organized and productive, head on over to the jobs page and get in touch!
(Photo by xeeliz)
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Make an email alias to easily add your tasks
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Andrew Conkling
This week's simple, helpful tip comes from rusharound:
I love the RTM email address that puts items into your list. The trouble is, it's a hard one to remember. I made an email alias with my ISP that forwards all email sent to todo@mydomain.com to my RTM address. It saves a lot of time and grief.
Be sure to check out the replies in that topic for some specific angles on this idea, and read more about our email service on our site.
Thanks for sharing this tip, rusharound! You're our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.
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