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Tips & Tricks
This week’s tip comes from mkpolkowski, who outlines a few types of lists and Smart Lists that come together as a comprehensive setup! Projects, general-purpose lists, and Smart Lists to help cover all sorts of scenarios—check out the tip for all the details. :) I have created my own
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With just a bit of effort you can set up Smart Lists to organize themselves! dougbrown77 shares this tip for using keywords and dates to have everything in place… so you can get right to completing your tasks. Remember The Milk’s greatest strength is in automating the Getting Things
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Deciding what to do in a given day can be daunting, but just as important and perhaps easier is deciding what not to do. This week’s tip, shared by jlam, suggests using this as a framework for planning your day. I’ve often found myself looking at a list
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Smart Lists can be great to show you just the tasks you want at any given time. dominic.spachmann takes that on the road this week, sharing a Smart List to show a specific set of nearby tasks. I did not use the “nearby” function very much, since it shows
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Parenting can feel like All The Things all at once, but nothing helps like a good list! theodor.schulte’s tip this week starts with a shared list and runs with it to manage all things baby. With a newborn child, your life is changing a lot. Nothing is like
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Quotations can be a source of wisdom, inspiration, motivation, and so on. Making them readily accessible makes them easier to enjoy. This week’s tip, shared by guillaume.babin, shares an easy way to start your own list of quotations. Each day I add a wisdom sentence as a task
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For yearly events, it’s easy to fall back on what you did the year before as you plan the details. This week’s tip, shared by aforementionedthoughts, is part diary / part planner, using our Evernote integration and reminders to force your reflections to the front of your mind as
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Repeating tasks can keep you productive day in and day out, but darhull’s tip takes things to another level this week—using repeating tasks, reminders, and estimates to build a habitual routine out of your tasks. I enjoyed Grant’s post here. I’ve also been using RTM for
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Prioritizing your tasks can be an important step in feeling organized, but it can feel like it takes too much extra time. This week’s tip, shared by hiteshnh, suggests using the advanced sorting to prioritize your tasks automatically. Why settle for just priorities when you can do much more
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Paying your bills on time can be super satisfying, and can even save you some money. This week, aforementionedthoughts shares a tip on keeping track of them easily to save a bit of extra money. Remember The Milk is a key part of my process to make sure I am
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If you keep track of follow-up tasks, you probably know that sometimes it can feel like tasks upon tasks. This week, jjcardil shares a tip to keep those follow-ups together in a Smart List and, well, to follow up on them. One of the challenges I face with my to-do
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Having your birthdays separate from your other tasks can make it harder to organize. This week’s tip comes from alex1ua, who suggests putting all birthdays and events in your tasks. Then you’ll have all of them in one place and can keep track not only of birthdays but