Andrew Conkling

Technical Support Engineer at Remember The Milk.

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Andrew Conkling
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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning holiday gifts

You may be reading this thinking, “It’s too early in the year to be planning gifts for the holidays!” Read on: in this week’s tip, laurie09 suggests starting to keep track of any holiday shopping you may do out of season, so as the holidays approach you have

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Creating habits for personal growth

It is pretty satisfying to complete any task you’ve put on your list for a given day, but what about those that fit with some larger goals you’ve set for yourself? In this week’s tip, kochava outlines a method for setting a goal and using a daily

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Adding tasks in unexpected places

It’s great to be able to add tasks via Twitter, but often getting something over to Twitter, especially from another app or website, can be the tricky part. This week’s tip, shared by taylor.andrew, suggests using a Tweet button (which seems to be showing up in more

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Memorizing passwords

With so much opposing password advice – “your password should be unique”, “your password should be hard to guess”, “do not write your password down!” – it can be tricky to remember a really effective password. This week’s tip, shared by toastmoartl, suggests a few tasks spread out over a month

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing objectives for a periodic review

When preparing for a performance review, it can often be difficult to summarize what you’ve worked on over the last quarter or, worse, the last year. This week’s tip, shared by dogrover, outlines how to keep track easily so you have a ready list each time you are

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Staying on track with chores

It can be difficult to keep up with household chores, especially when you think of how soon everything will get dusty again… :) This week’s tip, shared by bobbied, suggests looking just at what you have to do today so you can keep up without worrying about what will need

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting ready for a vacation

If you’re anything like I am, you’ll approach each vacation with a longer list of things to get ready and a larger fear of forgetting something. This week’s tip, shared by christopher.spence, suggests thinking about these things ahead of time and making a separate list so

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Renewing deals

It’s nice to get a promotional rate on Internet, phone, or other services you pay for periodically. This week’s tip, shared by jjustice suggests looking into further deals when those run out to make the most of your money. I move to a new apartment every year or

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Be productive everywhere!

Remember The Milk can help you be productive at home, work, or elsewhere. This week’s tip, shared by b2m, takes this to another level with a Smart List that will help you be productive everywhere by showing you tasks that don’t need to be done at specific locations.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping your cosmetics fresh

Bob T. Monkey knows the importance of making sure cosmetics aren’t outdated (it takes a lot of makeup to keep him looking this good!). In this week’s tip, amberiam describes how you can keep track of your cosmetics with Remember The Milk. There’s almost nothing more disgusting

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Self-improvement with Remember The Milk

We’ve talked before about cultivating good habits – once about a general method to develop a habit, and another time specific to reading more. If there’s one thing that’s key, it’s repetition. For more general reflection and self-improvement, a lot of repeating tasks may not be as

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