App for the milk brings your tasks to the desktop
Friday, October 2, 2009 by Emily Boyd
Looking to get your Remember The Milk fix on your desktop? App for the milk is a handy new desktop client developed by Christoph Peter.
The app allows you to manage your tasks in a stand-alone window, and works both online and offline (changes made when offline will be synchronized with RTM when you're back online). Thanks to Adobe AIR, the app is cross-platform and supports Windows, Mac, and Linux.
App for the milk is still a work-in-progress, with Christoph indicating that Smart List support is next on his to-do list. If you're looking for a way to quickly manage your tasks from your desktop, check it out!
App for the milk [via Lifehacker]
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Milk the Cow Dashboard Widget for OS X
Thursday, August 20, 2009 by Emily Boyd
If you're looking for a neat way to check out your tasks from your Dashboard, this widget might be for you. Rich Hong's recently updated Milk the Cow widget allows you to view (and filter!) your Remember The Milk tasks, and easily add and complete individual tasks.
For more useful tools for Remember The Milk, head on over to the Services page. Inspired by Rich and want to create a widget for your favourite platform too? Check out the API and get hacking!
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Windows Vista sidebar gadget for Remember The Milk
Monday, April 13, 2009 by Emily Boyd
For Windows Vista users: check out the fantastic I Forgot The Milk gadget created by ilab. This customizable gadget gives quick access to your RTM tasks directly from the Vista sidebar, and makes it easy to add and edit your tasks and notes.
Looking for more ways to interact with Remember The Milk? Head on over to the Services page.
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Remember The Milk with GNOME Do
Wednesday, March 18, 2009 by Emily Boyd
Here’s one for users of GNOME (a desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, for the uninitiated).
Peng Deng has created a cool Remember The Milk plugin for GNOME Do. The plugin allows you to filter your tasks (and use advanced search operators) as well as quickly create new tasks, and edit or delete existing tasks. Check out the video to see it in action:
Check out the plugin on the GNOME Do site or see Peng's blog for more details.
Feeling inspired by Peng's work and want to create your own tool or gadget for interacting with RTM? Read up on the API and start hacking. :)
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Command your tasks
Monday, September 29, 2008 by Emily Boyd
We're big fans of using commands to quickly add and interact with your tasks, so wanted to share these two cool new ways you can interact with RTM. (Both use the RTM API, so if you're feeling inspired, please feel free to hack on your own RTM command tool. :)
RTM Ubiquity
Mozilla Labs recently announced Ubiquity, a Firefox extension that allows you to interact with web services using natural language commands. Gary Hodgson has created a handy Ubiquity command that allows you to interact with RTM and add, view and complete your tasks. (If you have Ubiquity installed, just visit Gary's page and you'll be prompted to install the command.
FARR Remember The Milk Plugin (FarrRmilk)
Another cool tool, Philipp's FarrRmilk allows you to access your RTM tasks and lists using Find and Run Robot (FARR). Available for Windows, FARR is described as a "program for keyboard maniacs". FarrRmilk's features include filtering and sorting tasks, adding and editing tasks and notes, managing lists, viewing tags, and more.
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5 cool ways to interact with Remember The Milk
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 by Emily Boyd
1. Remember the Moof Dashboard Widget for OS X
Got a Mac? Malcolm McFarland has developed Remember the Moof, an awesome Dashboard widget that allows you to add and complete tasks, as well as filter by list and tags.
2. RTM Tool for Windows
Timo Pijnappel has developed RTM Tool for Windows, a very cool tool that allows you to quickly add tasks to Remember The Milk (complete with due date and tags). It's easily accessible from your Windows system tray or with a customizable hotkey.
3. RTM Provider for Thunderbird
Do you use Thunderbird with Lightning? Check out RTM Provider for Thunderbird, a fantastic extension by Mike Wu that allows you to access your tasks through Thunderbird and Lightning. Daily Gyan provides a great write-up on getting started with the extension, which Mike currently describes as an alpha release.
4. Add tasks from your desktop with Launchy
We've previously mentioned that using Launchy with Twitter is a neat way of adding tasks to RTM from your desktop. But what if you don't use Twitter? Rahsheen Porter has a helpful guide to using Launchy to add tasks to RTM via email. While you're over at Rahsheen's blog, check out his "Super-Charging Remember The Milk" series for some fantastic tips on Smart Lists and tags and 6 ways to add a task.
5. RTM on your Windows desktop
Use Windows and want quick access to your tasks? Check out Third Error's handy guide to embedding Remember The Milk on your Windows desktop using the Active Desktop feature [via Lifehacker].
Want more?
If you're looking for more ways to interact with Remember The Milk, check out the Services section. Feeling inspired? Read up on the API and start hacking. :)
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Getting organized with Tasque
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Emily Boyd
If you're a GNOME user looking for a simple-yet-powerful task management tool that integrates with RTM, then check out the very cool Tasque by Boyd Timothy and Calvin Gaisford.
Boyd and Calvin worked on Tasque as part of a Novell Hackweek project, and gave a demonstration of the application at the recent Novell BrainShare '08 conference. Check out the video to see Tasque in action:
In addition to working with RTM, Tasque also supports other backends such as Evolution and SQLite, and integrates with Tomboy, Giver, and GNOME Do (with a plugin created by Guillaume Béland) for even more awesomeness.
If you're keen to start playing with Tasque, get it here and check out the great write-up on Tasque over at Download Squad.
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Mooing away with Common Lisp
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Emily Boyd
Edgar Gonçalves has put together an awesome (and feature-rich!) Common Lisp API kit for RTM and has written about his experiences working with CL and the RTM API on his blog:
Enter Common Lisp. Perhaps the fastest way to do some scripting in my mind, but I've yet to make a library to use a Web-based API. Turned out it was quite clean, and in about 5 hours of work I had the whole API grokked, coded, tested and hosted in GoogleCode.
If you're a CL enthusiast (and I mean, who doesn't want to be?), check out the Remember The Milk API Kit for Common Lisp.
If Common Lisp isn't your thing, there are API kits available for a whole bunch of different languages, thanks to the wonderful developers who've worked with the RTM API. So if you've been putting off writing that command line utility to interact with your tasks in Python or Ruby, or maybe developing that desktop gadget you've always wanted, there are no more excuses. :)
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Remember The Milk for Deskbar Applet
Monday, December 31, 2007 by Emily Boyd
Here's one for users of GNOME (a desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems). Sebastian Pölsterl has created a handy Deskbar module for Remember The Milk. It supports adding new tasks; searching your incomplete tasks; and completing, postponing, deleting, moving, and changing priority of your tasks. Cool :)
Using GNOME? Check it out.
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Remember The Milk for Quicksilver
Friday, December 21, 2007 by Emily Boyd
If you're a Mac user, you may be familiar with the incredibly handy Quicksilver, which allows you to rapidly perform tasks on your Mac with quick keyboard shortcuts.
Brian Moore has created an awesome Quicksilver plug-in, Remember The Milk for Quicksilver, bringing RTM and Quicksilver together. You can quickly add tasks to RTM, including a due date (for example, "Call Brian at 9am tomorrow"), and choose which list to add to as well. If you'd like to be even more productive on your Mac with RTM, check it out. :)
Getting inspired and want to create cool stuff that works with RTM? Check out the API and get hacking!
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