Andrew Conkling

Technical Support Engineer at Remember The Milk.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew Conkling
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting (and staying) limber

Stretching and light exercise is very beneficial, and certainly possible at a computer with a short break, but it’s easy to get focused and to forget to ever do it. This week’s tip, shared by milkiglo, removes that obstacle – and also suggests the possibility of taking your stretching

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A more encouraging 'Today' Smart List

Sometimes it can feel like you’ll never get through today’s tasks or, even worse, that you haven’t gotten anything done all day! To help with that, this week’s tip, shared by taylor.andrew, suggests a quick addition to your Smart Lists to keep your day in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A comfortable set of lists and Smart Lists

The “complete” methods we share for how fellow users organize their tasks and lists tend to be quite thorough. This week’s tip, shared by dbblues, is comparatively simple: he aimed for a simpler set of lists, Smart Lists, and tags to keep everything organized across his apps. Thought I’

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using a Smart List for a Landing Pad

It’s possible to have so many tasks that new ones can get lost. If your Inbox isn’t working out for you, this week’s tip may help: idickinson suggests a way to add tasks quickly, including on the go, while maintaining the rest of their system. I’m

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Automatic quadrants using priorities and due dates

We recently covered an Eisenhower matrix to separate important and urgent tasks. We thought we’d, well, square things off with another take on quadrants. This week’s tip, shared by cek1227, suggests 5 quadrants – yes, 5! – to prioritize your tasks. The Four Quadrants from Covey are very helpful, but

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using 'kill' dates with Smart Lists

Due dates seem like a pretty straightforward property, but it’s always interesting to see some different uses for them. This week, cadetblue shares a tip for using dates as a “kill” switch – complete the task or get rid of it! Often I use RTM not only to record activities

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Smart Lists to break down long lists

Long lists can seem inevitable when organizing or planning things thoroughly, and they can be a bit overwhelming to look at entirely. This week’s tip, shared by lars_m, describes a few Smart Lists to help break down a long list into some more manageable pieces. As a PhD-student

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning a week at a time

It’s easy to get into a routine of postponing too many tasks too often. This week’s tip, shared by marthe.marthe, suggests a straightforward method for keeping track of just the current week, making your lists and projects more manageable. I have tried many things to get my

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: An Eisenhower Matrix using Smart Lists

An Eisenhower matrix can be a useful way to separate and to prioritize important tasks versus urgent ones. This week’s tip, shared by mehardin, suggests an automatic setup of these four quadrants using Smart Lists. It’s difficult when planning our day and our actions to lose sight between

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of important questions

Whether it’s your boss, family, friends, or someone else, it’s easy to think of something you want to ask someone… but not have the opportunity to ask it right away. This week’s tip, shared by visruts, offers an easy way to keep track of these questions until

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remembering to show gratitude

Some tasks can be necessary to get things done, while others are the type that simply make your day better. This week’s tip, shared by kateoneill, suggests passing on a bit of joy by being mindful of one’s gratitude for others! I keep meaning to write more thank

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning a holiday party

The holidays can be rather hectic times, particularly surrounding parties – for all their fun, they often require a lot of planning! This week’s tip, shared by vkhubani, shows a few ways to help navigate the planning process to make them less hectic and more fun! I am planning a

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