Andrew Conkling

Technical Support Engineer at Remember The Milk.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew Conkling
Bob T. Monkey packs for a trip

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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

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Bob T. Monkey with a watch

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using a task's dates for basic time management

Keeping track of time spent on a task is useful for reporting later. This week’s tip, shared by danielalbu, suggests giving yourself tasks to note the time you start on them, then marking the time afterward when completing them. As a freelancer, sometimes you want to know how much

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Bob T. Monkey FaceTimes with his favorite uncle, whose name is curiously also Bob.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping in touch with friends with repeating tasks

Keeping in touch with friends feels like one of those things that should happen automatically, but we all know it doesn’t always work that way. This week’s tip comes from kurtvan, who suggests tasks that repeat on a random interval so you don’t become too predictable. :) I

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Bob T. Monkey with a stack of books

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking what you read and want to read

Making a list of books you want to read and have read is a nice way to always have something at the ready. dillo99 shares a tip this week, laying out a nice way to keep track of everything easily—series of books, articles and websites too! My wife and

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Bob T. Monkey receives a banana shipment

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of shipments with a quick task

If you’re as addicted to online shopping as Bob is, check out this week’s tip. rossgoodman shares a simple way to add a link via Twitter from Amazon or another site that gives you a link to track an item’s shipment. If you buy lots of items

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Bob T. Monkey with Christmas presents

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning for annual events

The holidays and New Year are a great time for planning out your annual events—'tis the season! This week’s tip comes from raymond.finn who suggests keeping a list of tasks around a specific event, and completing and archiving the list when the event is done. That

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Bob T. Monkey with tags

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using tags to prioritize your tasks further

If three priority levels aren’t enough for you, you may want to add more. mtitos shares a tip this week suggesting to use number tags, 1–10, to create 10 priorities to keep your tasks and lists prioritized just as you want! For me, the three priority levels that

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Bob T. Monkey on a laptop

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using TextExpander to generate large sets of tasks

Some projects require a large set of tasks in sequence but specific to each project. Wouldn’t it be nice to quickly create a customized set of tasks for each project? This week, pszaro shares a tip using TextExpander to generate a custom sequence of tasks that can be emailed

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Bob T. Monkey with vitamins

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Forming habits with repeating tasks

Building habits involves a fair amount of repetition and motivation. This week, grant shares a tip of using repeating tasks in Remember The Milk alongside a daily task to build your desired habits and to keep them going. Recently I’ve been using Remember The Milk to build some habits

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