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
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
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. :)
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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
If you’re sharing lists with others, or even if not, it can be helpful to keep track of tasks that are in progress. This week’s tip, shared by jamezzz, uses two features—giving tasks and tags—to keep track of those tasks in creative ways.
I was looking
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
For night owls, the party doesn’t stop after midnight. With erlloyd’s tip this week, your productivity doesn’t have to suffer either. :) Using a special Smart List, you can customize your “bedtime” and keep up the fun in the wee hours.
I have a late sleep schedule, so
Reviewing your tasks can be helpful, but it can also be tedious to stay on top of. This week’s tip, shared by fizzyice, brings some automation to reviewing your tasks in a Smart List using the updated date—you don’t even need to rely on start or due
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
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
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
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