Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPad: now with push syncing
Thursday, August 4, 2011 by Omar Kilani
Hot on the heels of the shiny new real time updating for the Remember The Milk web app, we're excited to announce that our iOS apps now support push syncing (no app update required).
This means that any changes made to your account will automatically be pushed out to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. (The iOS app has to be open to receive the changes in real time, due to OS limitations.) A Pro account is required to take advantage of push syncing.
Here's a demonstration of push syncing that we prepared earlier:
We hope you enjoy all the new push syncing goodness.
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Real time updating comes to the Remember The Milk web app
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 by Omar Kilani
Users of our Android app have enjoyed real time push syncing for a while now. We've always wanted to add this real time updating awesomeness to the web app, and with the help of Scala, Akka, Netty and Unfiltered, we're excited to announce that real time updates are finally here.
This magical real time updating goodness means that you'll see changes to your tasks as soon as they happen. Updated a task on your shiny new iPad? Bam! The update shows up in your browser without you lifting a finger. Postponed a bunch of tasks on your Android device? Boom! There they are all freshly postponed. Someone you're sharing tasks with decides to tag a bunch of tasks with 'bananas'? Ka-ching! Little blue tags magically appear on your tasks.
Real time updating is now available with Google Chrome, Firefox 3+, IE 8+, Safari 5+, and Opera 10+. We hope you enjoy this magical new era of real time awesomeness. :)
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An update on offline access without Gears
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 by Omar Kilani
We're big fans of offline web apps at Remember The Milk; when Google Gears was released in 2007, we spent a caffeine-fuelled weekend coding insanely to make Remember The Milk the first web app after Google Reader to work offline with Gears.
As many of you know, Google stopped development on Gears earlier this year, and Gears support has been removed in Chrome 12. The last releases of other browsers to have Gears support are IE 8 and Firefox 3.6 (so Remember The Milk will only work offline if you stay on these older releases, unfortunately).
The future of offline is, of course, HTML5. So, if we developed offline support with Gears in one crazy weekend, why haven't we released offline support with HTML5 yet? Good question. :)
Based on our testing, we don't believe that the HTML5 technologies required to re-implement offline support (AppCache, IndexedDB) and their various browser implementations are ready just yet for a production web app the size and complexity of Remember The Milk (similar sized apps are things like Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, and the individual apps that make up Google Docs — yes, we really have that much code!).
This situation should change in the next few months, as Google works to make their apps available offline without Gears (offline for Gmail is targeted for delivery as a Chrome web app in the third quarter of 2011). We're continuing to keep a close eye on HTML5 and the browsers, and just as soon as the technology is ready, we plan to bring you guys fast and reliable offline support for Remember The Milk. Stay tuned. :)
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Help us decide! Vote on ideas for Remember The Milk
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by Emily Boyd
We love getting feedback here at Remember The Milk, and it seems like you guys love sending it too — there's been 24,150 posts in our Ideas forum since we launched. :)
With that much feedback, we can't implement every idea (no matter how many bananas we feed Bob T. Monkey, he's still got limits!). So, we need to figure out which ideas are most important to Remember The Milk users.
That's where you come in! We've completely overhauled the Ideas forum, and added a voting feature (inspired by Google Moderator). We'd love it if you could vote for the ideas you like (and dislike!). Your feedback will help us to decide what Bob and the team should develop next.
One more thing! To recognize the support of those who've upgraded, if you're Pro, your vote gets doubled; each time you vote, you'll add +2 or -2. Get voting! :)
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Introducing Remember The Milk for iPad
Thursday, May 5, 2011 by Emily Boyd
We're huge iPad fans here at Remember The Milk (our moms are, too!) and consider it to be a revolutionary (and magical :) new device. So when Apple announced that developers could start building apps for the iPad, our resident mobile app guru was on the case.
That was just over a year ago. Since then, we've rebuilt the app from scratch and thrown out 4 different design concepts in our pursuit of a Remember The Milk experience that feels natural and intuitive on the iPad.
After a lot of tweaking and testing (and what turned out to be the most ambitious project we've worked on since launching Remember The Milk), we're excited to announce that the app is finally done.
The universal iPad app is now available as a free download for everyone on the App Store, with some features available exclusively for Pro (more on that later). Get the app now, or read on to learn more. :)
Tell me more about the app!
Natural and intuitive.
The gesture-rich interface (inspired by Twitter for iPad) is designed to take full advantage of the iPad and makes tasks fun. More fun than pen and paper? We think so!
Always in sync.
The app (naturally!) keeps your iPad and your Remember The Milk account in sync. That's tasks, notes, lists, Smart Lists, tags, locations… the whole lot! You can use the entire app offline without an Internet connection, then sync up later when you're back online — perfect for plane trips.
For Pro users, smart auto-sync makes it easy to stay up-to-date — changes you make are automatically sent to Remember The Milk within seconds. Background sync completion means that if you leave the app mid-sync you don't have to worry — the app will finish up your sync with Remember The Milk and make sure you're in sync.
Organize your way.
Organize efficiently by list, Smart List, tag, or location and prioritize your tasks. Not sure what's next? See at a glance how many tasks are due today, tomorrow, and this week. Don't like the ordering? Choose to sort by priority, due date, or task name for each list. Of course, you can review your completed tasks with a fast switch between incomplete and complete tasks.
Keeping on top of tasks.
Manage your tasks easily with a few taps. All the fields you've come to know and love are supported (task name, list, priority, due date/time, repeat, time estimate, tags, location, and URL) and you can even customize the fields shown. So if you're big on tagging, you can set that field to always display when adding tasks.
There are flexible options for setting due dates and times, too; choose from days in the upcoming week, a full date/time picker, or enter your own in any of the supported formats.
Get stuff done with gestures.
Tap tasks with two fingers to quickly complete or postpone in the task list: pull down to reveal the Complete button, pull up to reveal the Postpone button.
You can also perform actions on several tasks at once. Just tap Edit on a task list to complete, postpone, prioritize, move, tag, and set the due date for tasks. You can also perform all these actions and more while editing a single task.
Add tasks the Smart way.
Add tasks quickly (and with as many properties as you like!) by using Smart Add syntax, e.g., "Pick up the milk tomorrow", "Order stationery #work", "Return books in 2 weeks @Library", and more. The auto-complete feature makes adding tasks with Smart Add super fast.
Smart Add saves you time too, with support for adding by context: tasks added to your today list will be due today, while tasks added to Smart Lists inherit their criteria. So, if your Smart List shows all your high priority tasks that are due today and located at the office (due:today AND location:office), any tasks added to this Smart List will automatically inherit all these properties.
Notes… that look like notes.
Need to store additional info about a task? Write a note (or notes!) for quick reference.
Email addresses, phone numbers and links in your notes conveniently auto-link to Mail, Contacts and Safari.
See tasks located nearby.
Like to take your iPad everywhere you go? Take the chance to add your favorite locations to the app. You can see tasks located nearby with one tap, in the Nearby view, so you can plan the best way to get things done.
A powerful tasks search engine in your hands.
Not only can you search for tasks by name, you can use any of the advanced search operators supported in the web app for more powerful searching. Want to find your high priority tasks due in the upcoming week and tagged with 'bananas'? No problem!
Save your favorite searches as Smart Lists for quick access. (For anyone new to this feature, Smart Lists are very handy; they're similar to Smart Playlists in iTunes, but allow you to easily see tasks that match your desired criteria, rather than music!)
Accessibility and VoiceOver support.
We're passionate about accessibility, and excited that the app has full support for VoiceOver, the iPad's gesture-based screen reader.
Available in 20 languages.
Remember The Milk for iPad is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Polish, Czech, and Greek. Interested in helping to make the app available in your language? We'd really appreciate any help — please check out our online translation program.
Available in two flavors: Free and Pro
Like our iPhone app, the iPad app comes in two flavors: Free and 
. In the free version, you'll be able to sync manually once every 24 hours with the Remember The Milk servers, which is great for backing up your tasks and notes online.
The Push Notification service is also unavailable in the free app (we can't give you everything free, now can we? :). But aside from that, you get all the goodness of our iPad app… free!
Exclusive to Pro: Unlimited auto-syncing + Push Notification service
Want to keep all your devices in sync without that pesky once-every-24-hours limit? Don't fancy having your syncing style cramped? Craving some of those sweet Push Notifications? No problem, that's where Pro accounts come in! Upgrade to Pro, and ye shall receive:
- Unlimited auto-syncing with Remember The Milk online. That's right, just let the app sync for you, or tap that little 'sync' button as often as you please.
- Smart auto-sync that automatically sends task changes to Remember The Milk within seconds. No more wondering if you have changes that need syncing!
- Keep in sync with your tasks on multiple devices. Got an iPhone as well as an iPad? Maybe you also use another device? The syncing goodness means you'll have your tasks up-to-date everywhere you use the app.
- Push Notification reminders and badge updates. Not only will we send you lovely Push Notification reminders, but if you add or change tasks via another Remember The Milk interface (like, say, the web app), we'll make sure to update the badge number on your device via Push Notification to reflect these changes.
And don't forget the other Pro benefits, including membership in our Pro Tester Program, priority support via email, and of course that little icon next to your name to indicate your awesomeness.
Thanks to…
A big thanks to the Remember The Milk users in the Pro Tester Program who helped us to test the app, gave us lots of feedback and reported bugs. (Unfortunately we could only invite 100 testers, as there's a limit on the number of devices that can be authorized for iPad testing, but we would have loved to invite everyone!)
Want Remember The Milk on your iPad?
Awesome! Here's the link you'll need to launch iTunes and download the app:
Want to learn more, or have any questions about the app? Please check out our Remember The Milk for iPad mini-site. We hope you enjoy the app as much as we enjoyed building it! :)
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Remember The Milk for Gmail updated with Firefox 4 support
Thursday, April 7, 2011 by Emily Boyd
We've released an update today to the Remember The Milk for Gmail add-on, improving our support for Firefox 4. Before the update, our add-on wasn't playing too nicely with the latest Firefox release, sometimes causing the browser to freeze. :(
If you're using this add-on with Firefox, the browser should automatically update for you; if it hasn't, please manually update the add-on to version 1.0.6.
As usual, you can find the current status of the Remember The Milk for Gmail add-on by visiting the status page; we frequently update the add-on to support each new version of Gmail's code.
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Seeking 100 testers for our iPad app
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Emily Boyd
The launch of our iPad app is right around the corner, but we have one thing left to do: test!
We're super excited about this app, and would love to be able to invite every single member of our Pro Tester Program to help us test, but this time we're looking for just 100 testers. (Why 100? That's the magic number of iPads that Apple lets us authorize for testing.)
So, how are we going to decide which 100 nice people receive invites? We toyed around with the idea of planting tickets in chocolate bars, but decided to keep things simple, much to Bob's chagrin.
We'll be emailing all the members of our Pro Tester Program later this week, asking everyone to indicate whether they'd be interested in testing the new app. If you're an iPad-owning* Pro member who hasn't already completed their tester profile… well, we'd recommend doing it pretty quickly. :)
We'll be randomly selecting 100 people out of those interested (selection method not yet determined, anyone got an especially large hat?), and inviting this group to start testing the app next week.
If you're interested in updates on the test, please follow us on Twitter or Facebook. We look forward to sharing the app with everyone shortly!
*It's going to be a tad bit difficult to test the app without an iPad, but if you don't have one just yet, not to worry! As long as you'll have an iPad in your hot little hands by early next week, please complete your tester profile.
Update March 31: The 100 testers have now been notified; thanks to everyone who was interested!
Update April 26: Remember The Milk for iPad has been submitted to Apple for approval. Woohoo! :)
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Share how many tasks you've completed in 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010 by Emily Boyd
Wondering how much you've accomplished with Remember The Milk this year? Just login to the web app, and we'll tell you how many tasks you've completed in 2010.
We've also added an option to share your achievement via Twitter or Facebook, if you'd like to let everyone know what a productivity freak you are. :)
Happy New Year, everyone! We hope you have an awesome (and productive ;) 2011!
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Now with 'Always use HTTPS' goodness
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 by Omar Kilani
Ever since we launched Remember The Milk, we've supported secure and encrypted access over HTTPS to the website for all users (of course, passwords are always encrypted when sent over the Internet :).
Today we're making it even easier to always use a secure connection when accessing your tasks on the Remember The Milk website, with the introduction of the 'Always use HTTPS' setting, now available under the 'Settings' screen in your account.
Turning this setting on does a couple of things:
- Ensures that HTTPS is used even if you forget to use a 'https' address when accessing Remember The Milk.
- Only sends the cookies that identify you to Remember The Milk over HTTPS.
- Enables Strict Transport Security in browsers that support it (which includes Google Chrome, Firefox 4, and any version of Firefox with the latest version of the NoScript extension).
If you use Remember The Milk on any public or untrusted networks, or would just like to know your tasks are always encrypted when transferred to your browser, please turn on this feature today.
Note: Remember The Milk apps such as our Android and iPhone apps, as well as all MilkSync apps, already transfer all data over HTTPS for extra security, so this setting won't affect those apps.
We hope you enjoy using your shiny new always-encrypted Remember The Milk. :)
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Remember The Milk now available in the Chrome Web Store
Wednesday, December 8, 2010 by Emily Boyd
Remember The Milk is now available in the just launched Chrome Web Store, a place for Google Chrome users to discover and install apps.
Once you install the Remember The Milk app, it's added to your Chrome start page so you can login with a single click. (You can also right-click on the app icon and choose "Open as pinned tab" for quick access.)
For those wondering, the version of the web app available in the Chrome Web Store is the same as the one at www.rememberthemilk.com (nothing new just yet, sorry!). We're very excited about the future possibilities for the web app though (particularly taking advantage of cool new stuff like HTML5). We're big Chrome fans, and it's the browser we think provides the best experience for Remember The Milk, so we recommend giving it a try if you haven't already. :)
If you're a Google Chrome user, please be sure to visit our Remember The Milk app page, install the app, and give us a rating or review!
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