It’s easy to go all-in on tags and have a tag for everything you need to stay organized and, well, on task. To keep perspective on what’s what, olliebaum suggests descriptions to keep your tags organized. Not only can you have a task ready for describing your tags,
Managing or operating a retail store or business involves lots of repeating work—daily, weekly, less often. asenchak describes their setup for keeping track of everything easily, and also mentions the added flexibility of assigning work for others based on the total time estimated.
In operating a retail store or
Networking with contacts can be a hands-on affair, and can easily take a lot of time. However, with a few minutes it can be easily set up to be a simple matter with a series of small tasks, as demonstrated by dillo99 in this week’s tip.
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Sometimes it feels like the more organized you are the more daunting it can be to look over your tasks. Why not build in some focus to your organization? dominic.spachmann shares this week’s tip, which focuses on two Smart Lists that let you focus only on what you
Especially for the procrastinators among us, sometimes it can be good to take a look at those tasks you just haven’t completed in some time. Using an advanced sort, kathryn.robinson shares a tip walking you through finding your most-postponed tasks so you can take care of them one
Keeping a contact log sounds good in theory, but seems like a lot of tedious work. This week’s tip, shared by hwebbjr, shows a simple way to set it up so it “catches” tasks automatically and keeps them handy for searching later.
As a school administrator, documentation is king.
Making a grocery list is a regular affair, but can be time consuming. tricia.mcknight shares a tip this week showing how to make a list quickly based on what you usually buy, and showing how much your list should cost once you get to the grocery store.
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The first weeks of school can be overwhelming with everything going on. This week’s tip, shared by dishbreak, suggests using tags for individual classes so you can quickly add tasks as appropriate and pull them up via Smart Lists as schoolwork progresses.
School’s starting for a lot of
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a great setup to help you see only what you can do at any given time, and what better way to set that up in Remember The Milk than with Smart Lists? kariwhit shares this week’s tip about a streamlined setup using tags and
Postponing a task is easy, but sometimes you can get in a routine of putting something off. This week’s tip, shared by stevenov, suggests a repeating task and a Smart List to help remind you to review those tasks, so you can either get to them or cut them
Tags can be a flexible way to organize your tasks, so we’re always interested in how people are using them. This week’s tip, shared by karlicoss, highlights some useful ways of using tags to keep up with friends and family and for managing a variety of tags.
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If you thrive on structure, this week’s tip would likely be interesting. dembo shares a means of structuring tasks via tags and an advanced sort to help plan your today (and tomorrow).
I am trying to move away from a two-step process:
1. capture all tasks (RTM is great