Andrew Conkling

Technical Support Engineer at Remember The Milk.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew Conkling
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing your financial life

Managing your finances can be a big task – or list of tasks! This week’s tip, shared by bynbutterfly, outlines a very thorough method for keeping up on all aspects of your finances. I felt overwhelmed to manage bank accounts, especially multiple credit cards and debit accounts. By using Remember

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting a daily reminder later in the day

Many people like to get a daily reminder in the morning to help set the tone for the day – “here’s what will be on your plate today”. This week’s tip, shared by nodonovan, suggests viewing your tasks themselves in the morning and using the daily reminder later in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Staying up late with Smart Lists

If you’re a night owl who just seems to be hitting your stride after midnight, this week’s tip is for you. igorrs shares a Smart List for keeping track of when you actually go to bed, so you can get everything done late at night. If you go

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Borrowing and lending with tags

If you ever lend things to others, you probably know the feeling of suddenly realizing you never got that one thing back! Or you might avoid borrowing things, because they’ll constantly be on your mind while you have them. This week’s tip, shared by dominikhajduk, offers a reprieve

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Adding a bit of fun to your Eisenhower matrix

We recently shared an Eisenhower matrix that helps you organize your tasks by importance/urgency. This week’s tip, shared by fabian.kurmann, adds a fun twist: adding some, well, fun tasks into the mix so you enjoy being productive that much more. I think the Eisenhower method is pretty

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Following TV shows with repeating tasks

Now that Bob is done catching up on the rest of The IT Crowd, he’s been watching more current TV. This week’s tip, shared by derboti, is very handy for him and maybe for you too – derboti shows a simple way to keep track of when your favorite

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Focusing on time with Smart Lists

We’re always interested to see how users use Smart Lists to break up their tasks into manageable chunks. This week’s tip, shared by pescacebes, demonstrates four Smart Lists that use tasks’ priorities and due dates to keep track of tasks that matter today, this week, and what else

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing your time with an agenda

It’s not always easy to keep track of a day’s events alongside your task list – sometimes it can feel like doing one will be at the expense of the other. This week’s tip, shared by lebacon6, shows a simple strategy for making the most of busy days

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Putting projects on hold by archiving lists

If you keep track of projects or groups of tasks in lists, you’ll find that sometimes you end up with some extras you’ve put off or otherwise aren’t working on. This week’s tip, shared by jcfisher, suggests archiving those lists to keep your list of lists

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing your energy with tags

It’s not always appropriate to think of your tasks in terms of how much time they will take; many times it can be better to think of them in terms of how much energy they require. This week’s tip, shared by jacob.l, shows a simple way to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: 8 glasses of water per day, 2 at a time

Drinking enough water is important for your health, but it’s difficult to keep track of and can be a bit daunting to think about over the course of a day. This week’s tip, shared by rtm_user_123, suggests breaking down this goal into smaller steps that help

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A Smart List to find next actions

It’s possible to use Smart Lists to be very organized and to help prioritize your tasks and your time. This week’s tip, shared by megan.strickland, takes it one step further: a Smart List that helps you sift through what you can work on next… with less effort.

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