Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Flexible packing lists for all types of trips

Keeping a packing list is indispensable for making sure you pack everything you need for your trips. This week’s tip, shared by quam, combines the Remember The Milk email import service with task notes to keep templates for future trips always handy and ready to be added.

How many times have I entered a plane or opened the suitcase at the hotel realizing I had forgotten something? Toothbrush, slippers, charger cable, or my favourite shampoo.

Here’s a way to generate packing lists for the different type of trips you make:

• First create a list called something like “Packing”.
• Then create a task called something like “PackingLists” with lowest priority and no due date.
• Now you add notes to this task, like for example:
--skiing vacations
scarf !3 ^today
gloves !2 ^today
sun glasses !1 ^today
UV protection lipstick !1 ^today
and more items...
-end-
-- business trip 3 days
2 ties !2 ^today
3 shirts !1 ^today
pair of spare shoes !3 ^today
business cards !1 ^today
and more items...
-end-

Now when it’s time to pack your bag, just search the PackingList task, copy the text from one of your notes, and send it to your RTM import email address with the subject “Packing”.

Whenever you want to add an item, you can edit the note or create a new one for a new kind of trip: e.g. Christmas holidays at Mom’s, or business trip 5 days.

You could also share the list with all of your travel buddies.

Hope this might help you, and you never ever forget a thing when traveling.

Thanks for sharing this tip, quam! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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