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Product news, tips and tricks, and updates from the team behind Remember The Milk, the smart to-do app for busy people.

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing checklists with Evernote

Organizing your lists is an important step to keep your information ready when you want it. This week’s tip comes from gustavo.marins, who shares a simple way to keep a group of checklists within reach for reference. I use Remember The Milk together with Evernote to manage various

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Bob T. Monkey with 20 chocolate chip cookies.

Behind the Scenes

Birthday #20

This week, we celebrated Remember The Milk’s twentieth birthday! 🎉 Back in 2005, Remember The Milk was just a small idea shared by two humans and one enthusiastic stuffed monkey. It’s hard to believe we’re now celebrating two whole decades of helping people all around the world get

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Remember The Milk icon and widget on iOS 26.

Updates

iOS update: Now with support for iOS 26 and watchOS 26!

Our latest release updates the app to support iOS 26 and watchOS 26. If you’ve updated to the latest iOS or watchOS, you need to download this update! 😊 Here’s what you’ll find in version 10.0.1: * Improved: We’ve made a whole bunch of fixes to

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Tips & Tricks

Request for your best Tips & Tricks ideas!

Just like a good coffee, we like enjoying our Tips & Tricks posts regularly. To that end, we need your help! We are requesting a fresh batch of your tips, whether you are using Remember The Milk in a unique way, have found something especially helpful, or have a fancy

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Bob tangled up in gift wrapping and ribbon.

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making a list of gift ideas for yourself and others

Gift time around birthdays and holidays can be really tricky: “Wait, what do they want?” or “Wait, what do I want?” This week’s tip from adamrakich is beautiful in its simplicity: keep track of gifts for the right occasion, whether you’re shopping for someone else or someone else

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Bob holding a red microfiber duster.

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using a Smart List to find stale tasks

Finding your older tasks can be very helpful: “Oh, that’s easy to do now!” or “I can check this off because I did something different since then.” mjbenoit asked a specific question about this: How do I find tasks that haven’t been updated, and may need to be

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Bob relaxing with a tea and a heating pad.

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Stress-free is the way

Staring down a long list in a given day can feel intimidating, even if it’s a reasonable number of tasks. In this week’s tip, fant suggests an easy way to pace yourself: show tasks only as their due time approaches. That way you can focus on just the

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Bob sitting in front of a wooden ampersand, contemplating all the possible combinations.

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Convert your tasks to CSV with MilkScript

The best to-do list is the one you can take with you… and sometimes that means “data portability”. While a full account backup is available in JSON format, a lightweight CSV can be an appealing option at other times. “Why not both?” This week’s tip features a MilkScript that

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Bob deciding to play his UNO reverse card.

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: “Plotting” revenge with tasks due later

Wanting revenge is a common feeling, but acting on it is (just maybe) not always for the best. This week’s tip comes from countdiso, who plots a course for all of us through common scenarios of revenge. The key is… waiting! Delay your response and you may find you

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Complementing your task with a screencast

For a certain kind of task, you may add it and imagine that you’ll remember later what “Download PDF from website” means. But you may return to it and think, “Well where was I supposed to click? I don’t see it now.” For this kind of task, pelowski

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