Andrew Conkling

Technical Support Engineer at Remember The Milk.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew Conkling
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Lightweight issue tracking

If you’ve ever worked on a software project, you’ll know that bugs and issues stack up faster than you can work on them. This week’s tip, shared by cadetblue, describes a way to use email, Smart Lists, and sharing to quickly put together an issue tracker. Issue

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Goin' home

If you live far from home, you can relate to needing to be very intentional about what special things you do when you make a trip there. This week bordaigorl describes how they organize these things before, during, and after a trip home. I live far from home for long

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Flash cards with Remember The Milk

People use Remember The Milk to keep track of all sorts of things, but this week odelaney shares a tip for a unique method to remember all sorts of specific details: flash cards! odelaney even has a video demonstration too, included below. (Is this the first tip with a corresponding

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using tags to organize groups of tasks

Tags are one of our favorite features for organizing tasks. This week’s tip, shared by reconfiguring, shows a few ways of using tags very effectively to organize groups of tasks – for specific meetings, but also as a means of categorizing tasks more generally too. As I have to manage

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of new music

If you try to keep up with new music, you know it can be a lot of work! Not to worry: in this week’s tip, tom.vanbaarle shares a thorough and simple method for keeping up with new recommendations, and for knowing what to buy. Besides using RTM for

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Asking yourself questions

Aside from more direct tasks, Remember The Milk can help you keep track of a variety of things. This week’s tip, shared by cole.jennette, demonstrates keeping track of questions you want to be on your mind… perhaps as a way of making a decision, something to check on,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Selling unwanted items online

Plenty of us have some things around the house that we could stand to get rid of. Armed with a camera and the internet, that’s very easy these days! In this week’s tip, yosri describes how they have started working through their pile of stuff by making a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Upcoming tasks, with a twist

Many are celebrating the new year this month. What better time to take a look at what’s coming up? This week, arwild01 shares a nice, simple way to see what’s coming up in the next week without getting distracted by unimportant things or forgetting about very important things.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Reusable lists and archiving tags

‘Tis the season for lists… and since holiday lists come up year after year, we thought we’d share a timely tip shared by winterkitten. Of course, this tip can be used all year long; it’s the gift that keeps on giving! Last year I made up a list

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Preparing for a baby's arrival

Expecting a baby can bring a whole new set of challenges to the uninitiated – I guess that applies to all new parents! Rather than flounder over the unknown, Remember The Milk user robyn.sukenik did what many of us can relate to in times of great anxiety: she made a

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