Remember The Milk in 2016: Year in Review
It’s been a busy year for us at Remember The Milk! Bob can barely remember all the things we got up to, so we thought we’d end the year by sharing some of our favorite happenings from 2016.
The new Remember The Milk
We kicked off the year with a big launch. We built a new Remember The Milk from the ground up, and brought you a whole set of shiny new apps. We launched new apps for the web, Mac desktop, iPhone, iPad, Android phones & tablets, BlackBerry 10, and Fire.
We were also able to pack in a whole bunch of (much requested!) new features. Some of the highlights were subtasks, drag and drop reordering, tag colors, all-new sharing, notifications, individual task reminders, advanced sorting, start dates, and offline mode for the web app. Bob doesn’t know how he ever lived without subtasks!
Bring on the desktop apps
Desktop apps for Remember The Milk were a hugely popular request (and Bob was pretty keen to have them, too!). We were excited to launch apps for both Windows and Linux, which joined our Mac app to complete our little desktop apps family. These apps bring all the functionality you get in your browser into a handy standalone version, and you can get desktop notifications, too.
On a technical note, we also ended up rebuilding our Mac app, switching to a shiny new Chrome-based engine provided by Electron. This made things much faster (and as a bonus, less buggy too!).
Android app updates
Since releasing whole new Android and iOS apps early in the year, we’ve continued to improve our mobile apps with a bunch of updates throughout the year. On Android, we added support for multi-window and Smart Lock, made it possible to see statistics at a glance, added an option to quickly add due and start times, and fixed an assortment of annoying bugs.
And iOS app updates, too
Over on iOS, we added 3D Touch support to our app. The app icon shows the last two views visited when using 3D Touch, and we now have a compact overview widget too! (Did you know that you can also 3D Touch tasks and notes to quickly look at them? No? Well now you do! :)
We added Complete/Postpone actions to task reminder notifications, so you can complete or postpone tasks super quickly on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. We also released a share extension, made it possible to see statistics at a glance, and added an option to quickly add due and start times.
Alexa, meet Remember The Milk!
This was one of our favorite launches. Our Skill for Alexa brings the power of Remember The Milk to your Alexa-enabled device. Tell Alexa to remind you, and she’ll add the task to your list. Ready to get things done? Just ask Alexa what’s due today. Need some help? Ask Alexa to give a task to a contact, like the ever-helpful Bob T. Monkey. (Our Alexa integration is US only right now, sorry to non-US folks!)
Be on the bleeding edge
Do you want bug fixes and performance improvements even if things could be slightly less stable? We launched release channels for our web and desktop apps, just for you! Choose whether you want to be on the “stable” release channel (the default), or the “beta” channel. You can find this setting under Account settings -> General -> Release Channel.
Introducing themes
This was another of our favorite new features. You can now choose from over 100 beautiful themes to make the web and desktop apps your own. From reviewing the most popular themes, we now know that you guys really like coffee (hey, us too!) and space (both the nebula and moon themes were very popular).
A faster MilkSync
We couldn’t leave out Microsoft Outlook syncing! We updated MilkSync so that it starts up much faster, plus added support for our new start dates feature. Oh, and Bob fixed a bunch of bugs too. :)
The team, in person!
Our team is distributed around the world, with Remember The Milk team members living on four different continents (with five different time zones!). We were lucky to get the opportunity earlier this year to get together in real life with the people (and monkey) we work with every day. From chocolate tours to glow-in-the-dark mini golf to competitive oatmeal-eating, we had a great time in Montreal.
What’s next?
Bob and the rest of the team are busy cooking up new stuff and working to improve Remember The Milk. We can’t wait to share what we’re working on! We’re on a never-ending quest to make the world more organized and productive, so be sure to let us know how we can help you. ;)
Thanks for using Remember The Milk, and happy holidays from everyone on the team! :)
