Andrew Conkling

Technical Support Engineer at Remember The Milk.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew Conkling
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Maintaining warranties on jewelry

Warranties are very helpful: if something breaks, you can fix it! Of course, if your warranty has a renewal/inspection period, there’s a lot of incentive to keep it up. This week’s tip, shared by thisjones, offers a simple way to use repeating tasks to make sure you

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Razor-sharp focus with Smart Lists

It’s handy to collect your tasks in a bunch of lists from all spheres of life. It’s also handy to use Smart Lists to collect sets of tasks across all your lists so you can group them together in different ways. This week’s tip, shared by clziegler,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A quick look at new tasks with a Smart List

There are a variety of ways to add tasks quickly – a look at our Apps page will show you many of them! Following up on that, this week’s tip, shared by mvl1729, shows a quick way to see just those tasks you added today – to add a tag, move

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking Facebook notifications with the Gmail add-on

Whether you’re managing a page for a business, posting the cutest pictures of your kitten, or just celebrating your birthday, it’s easy to get bogged down with Facebook notifications. This week’s tip, shared by dougbrown77, shows a neat way to use our Gmail add-on to collect all

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Automatic prioritization using Smart Lists

Many of our most interesting tips involve a unique use of Smart Lists. We’ve talked about how they can help show you specific sets of tasks, but this week’s tip, shared by mikejd30, shows how Smart Lists can effectively provide automatic priorities for you. I’m more into

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of Kickstarter projects with tags

Kickstarter is a neat site for supporting creative projects. If you’ve ever supported a project there, you’ll know that there can be a lot of deadlines – when a project needs to be funded, when it is expected to deliver, and a lot of updates along the way. This

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping up with birthdays, one month at a time

Especially in a large family it’s not always the easiest thing to keep up with birthdays one at a time – buying cards, making calls, sending gifts. This week’s tip, shared by natenauert, suggests keeping up with them a month at a time. My wife and I are both

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Repeat on specific days

The ‘after’ repeat is handy: the next task will only appear after the current one is completed. This week’s tip, shared by matthew.bassett, shows a few examples of using this to really control your repeats. I recently discovered that you can give a day name when specifying '

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Smart List for tasks without time estimates

It can be really handy to plan your day with time estimates – “how much work did I plan for myself today?” or “how many things can I get done on my errands?” – but this only helps if you have time estimates on your tasks, of course! This week’s tip,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Focus on your doable tasks with a 'now' tag

I think many of us can relate to having long lists of tasks – various projects, “anytime” tasks, and things we want to get to eventually. :) This week’s tip, shared by pauldb, suggests a quick way to focus only on what you can do now, or at least have chosen

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