Emily Boyd

Hello! I'm Emily, co-founder of Remember The Milk.

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Emily Boyd
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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Multitasking while watching TV

Often in the evenings, you may want to relax in front of the TV or get some small things done. This week’s tip, shared by scave31, offers a way to have your cake and eat it too: get some things done while still enjoying some downtime. I’m new

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: My Tickler Setup

If you’re using Remember The Milk to set up a GTD system, you’ll know that it is important to keep track of upcoming tasks due on a particular date. Traditionally, you would keep these items in a set of folders—a “tickler” file. This week’s tip, shared

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Updates

Android app bug squishing update, the sequel

Bob T. Monkey brings us another bug squishing release, following our big Remember The Milk for Android update. Version 2.0.5 includes: Enhancements: * Improve updates to lists/widgets using locatedWithin search criteria. Bug fixes: * Fix display of “every last [DAY] of the month” repeat intervals. * Fix issue with parsing

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk for GTD in a School Environment

Students know that organizing your assignments across classes can be a tedious affair, even with a syllabus in hand. This week’s tip, shared by astavrow, aims for a streamlined, organized setup to keep all assignments straight to make the most of your semester. There’s a great post on

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: See tasks due where you are

If you ever take out your phone to recall which errands you need to run, this week’s tip, shared by alasnik, is for you. In it, he discusses a way of using locations while mobile to zero in on what you have to do nearby. I’ve been enjoying

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Behind the Scenes

Join the Remember The Milk team: JavaScript Ninja

Do you dream of a world where the browser reigns supreme, and all applications are a beautifully constructed and obsessively optimized mish-mash of cleanly namespaced JavaScript, crafty HTML and minimalist CSS? Do you wake up screaming “OH NO! NOT ANOTHER [favourite quirky browser here] BUG!” as cross-browser development haunts you

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Updates

Android app bug squishing update, part II

Bob T. Monkey’s been busy with another bug squishing release, following our big Remember The Milk for Android update. Version 2.0.2 includes: Enhancements: * Initial sync now uses 50% less memory. * Updates to localizations for Chinese (Simplified), Danish, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese (Brazil). Bug fixes: * Fix issue

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: The Boss List

It can be hard to have the clearest perspective about what you did in the past year, so this week’s tip, shared by rossruns, describes a way to keep track of some big items for use in a performance review. Like many folks out there, I have an annual

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Updates

Android app bug squishing update

Following our big Remember The Milk for Android update last week, we discovered a few bugs that had managed to sneak through into the release. :( Bugs just won’t do, so we’ve released version 2.0.1, including: Enhancements: * Updated layout of 2x2 widget to show more tasks. * Updates

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Zen to Done

We’ve covered some organizational methods in the past, namely Getting Things Done and Monk to Done. This week’s tip, shared by sssimon, demonstrates how to organize your tasks using a similar approach, Zen to Done, in Remember The Milk. The goal of this post is to show how

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Updates

We taught Siri to add tasks to Remember The Milk

From the moment we tried Siri on our shiny new iPhone 4S, we knew we had to teach Siri to add tasks to Remember The Milk. A few caffeine-fuelled days later, and we’re super excited to announce that we’ve done just that! You can now ask Siri to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Catching up on tasks using Smart Lists

Sometimes your tasks can get the better of you, and suddenly looking at your to do list feels overwhelming. However, this week’s tip, shared by bookworm, describes a way to break your list of tasks into smaller, more manageable lists. I keep separate lists for tasks relating to different

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