Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Updates

The ginormous Remember The Milk for Android update

Our promised Android app update is finally here, and it’s a big one! We’ve overhauled the UI of the app and the widgets, snuck in some cool new features and new widgets too, and… The basic app is now free for everyone! Until now, our Android app has

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Behind the Scenes

Birthday #6

Wow, it’s hard to believe we’re six years old today! We want to say a massive thanks to the over 3.1 million people who’ve entrusted Remember The Milk with their tasks, and of course an extra big thanks to the lovely folks who support us with

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk with Monday meetings

Remember The Milk can be useful for keeping track of what you have to do, as well as what you have already completed. This week’s tip, shared by taylor.andrew, discusses how you can use both in weekly meetings to keep things on track. At work, we recently introduced

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Running to-do lists

It can be difficult to manage “today’s” tasks when sometimes there’s too much to do on a given day. This week’s tip, shared by kylir, suggests using priorities instead of due dates for any tasks that don’t need to be done on a specific day. I’

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Wall of widgets

Remember The Milk for Android features home screen widgets for you to see what’s going on at a glance. This week’s tip, shared by joooc, shows how to see what’s going on at a glance… four ways over. I use RTM widgets on my Android phone to

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Updates

Squishing bugs in MilkSync for Microsoft Outlook

If there’s one thing that Bob T. Monkey hates, it’s bugs (all bugs, but particularly the software kind). That’s why he’s excited that the latest update to MilkSync for Microsoft Outlook, version 1.0.22, squishes even more of the tricky creatures. We don’t usually

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Breaking down tasks in your job search

Unemployment can be overwhelming, but this week’s tip, shared by skylar.curtis, discusses a way to help break down things that you can do to help find a job. I graduated law school and took the bar exams about a month ago. This means that I’ve been unemployed

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dude, where's my car?

Frequent travelers among us will surely be familiar with this scenario: you’ve just returned from a long and/or great trip and are walking out of the airport when you realize you don’t quite remember where your car is; you’ve either misplaced the card or note or

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Checking out new songs

“What was the name of that song?” If you’ve ever been bothered by forgetting a song, you’ll appreciate this week’s tip, shared by vkhubani, which offers a simple way to keep track of what new songs you hear so you never forget again. When I’m in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Domain watching

If you own your own internet domain name, you’ll know that it can be hard to keep track of any renewal dates, often a year or more from when you register them. This week’s tip, shared by b3njamin, suggests using tasks to be reminded of expiring domains you

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk in a daily stand-up meeting

Using Remember The Milk to manage your tasks helps you keep track of what you have to do, and what you have recently completed. This week’s tip, shared by lasthunter, discusses how you can keep this info handy for daily use. Agile software development really goes along the GTD

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