Andrew Conkling

Technical Support Engineer at Remember The Milk.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew Conkling
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Following up with people with a series of tasks

Keeping up with people can be difficult. It can seem like some people just have a knack for it, but Remember The Milk user darhull shares her secret: a series of tasks to keep up with business contacts. Leveraging Remember The Milk for email, she makes setting this up exceedingly

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Learning a new language with repeating tasks

Learning a secondary language requires regular effort: a few minutes per day will create momentum and help you retain what you’ve learned. In this week’s tip, Cyrille shares a simple way to use repeating tasks to learn new vocabulary in a secondary language. In addition to to-do list

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Moving house with a list of tasks

Moving is an ordeal unto itself, and comes with a variety of tasks both small and large, important and urgent, and plenty in between. This week’s tip, shared by julio.bree, suggests breaking down your list of tasks so they stay organized and straightforward, keeping you level-headed! Hello everyone,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using priorities to measure progress

Sometimes bigger tasks can seem to pile up, which can be discouraging or distracting. This week’s tip, shared by hiteshnh, suggests distinguishing in-progress tasks with priority 1. Using RTM for my project management role, I came to realize that it is not uncommon for tasks to be piled up

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of work projects

When you’re balancing your day-to-day work with future projects and ideas, it can be tricky to juggle everything. This week’s tip, shared by adamrakich, describes a nice way to keep your projects on your radar without them cluttering up your daily work. At my work, I have my

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of produce

Bob eats bananas all the time – but for the rest of us it may take a bit more work to make sure we’re eating our fruits & vegetables. This week’s tip, shared by niemansj, puts the “produce” in “productive” by suggesting a list to make sure you eat

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of reading assignments

For those in school, it can be tough to keep up with assignments and readings. This week’s tip, shared by polindsay, suggests keeping track in a list so you can pull it up when mobile or at a computer, or even print it out for an easy stash in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using the mobile apps to record ideas immediately

When an idea comes to mind, or you remember something you have to do, the moment can be fleeting – and don’t those moments always arise at the most inopportune times? This week’s tip, shared by jacktuttle, suggests adding a task to your Inbox so you can get it

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making a list of school supplies

If you’ll be shopping for school supplies anytime soon, you’ll know it can seem like a long list of items. This week’s tip, shared by jeanniebean, shows a nice way to keep track of the best place to buy all your supplies. My son is starting kindergarten

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing others' tasks in separate lists

Using lists it’s possible to be very organized and productive without having too many distractions while you’re getting things done. This week’s tip, shared by kuntal.raval, shows that you can be so organized you can pay it forward and help others with their tasks as well!

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A simple meal diary with repeating tasks

Eating well is very good for you, but takes a bit of work. In this week’s tip, olliebaum started by setting up a task to plan lunch, and ends up with a nice meal diary – useful for making a habit of eating lunch daily, planning a good time for

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