Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Easily processing your "Waiting For" list

Remember The Milk can be useful to manage tasks that you’ve delegated to others: aside from the sharing and sending features we offer, you can simply remind yourself which things you’re waiting on from others. This week’s tip, shared by jamesr404, explains how he does this and

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Updates

Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPad: now with push syncing

Hot on the heels of the shiny new real time updating for the Remember The Milk web app, we’re excited to announce that our iOS apps now support push syncing (no app update required). This means that any changes made to your account will automatically be pushed out to

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Real time updating comes to the Remember The Milk web app

Users of our Android app have enjoyed real time push syncing for a while now. We’ve always wanted to add this real time updating awesomeness to the web app, and with the help of Scala, Akka, Netty and Unfiltered, we’re excited to announce that real time updates are

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: DIY with Remember The Milk

Owning a home can imply a great deal of DIY (Do It Yourself) maintenance; we’ve discussed work in a new home previously, but they require more ongoing work too. This week’s tip, shared by dankjewelske, offers an idea for how to get a few things done at home

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting stuff done when money is tight

No matter what your economic situation, it can be helpful to keep an eye out for opportunities to save money – or at least to avoid spending it. This week’s tip, shared by daubs, describes a way to keep track of which tasks you can do without spending any money.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Working on and off your computer

Working at a computer is a frequent task for many of us; just ask Bob! If that sounds like you too, then you will appreciate this week’s tip, shared by ubuntudroid, which discusses a way to keep feeling productive when you need a computer break. As I’m currently

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Monk to Done, a GTD approach

One of our perennial posts on this blog has been “Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk”, a guest post by Doug Ireton, a fellow Remember The Milk user. This week’s tip, shared by waldir.leoncio, offers a simplified method for keeping track of your tasks in a similar way.

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Updates

An update on offline access without Gears

We’re big fans of offline web apps at Remember The Milk; when Google Gears was released in 2007, we spent a  caffeine-fuelled weekend coding insanely to make Remember The Milk the first web app after Google Reader to work offline with Gears. As many of you know, Google stopped

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking your group-buy coupons

This week’s tip, shared by bigphinsphan, highlights a great way to use your task list to organize your group-buy coupons and their locations, details, and expiration dates: I’ve started tracking my discount coupons purchased through sites like Groupon, restaurant.com, Living Social, etc. I will create a location

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Living abroad and phoning home

In our increasingly global world, communication can be tricky; when you consider timezones halfway around the world, it can be downright difficult just to find time to get in touch. This week’s tip, shared by robyn.sukenik, discusses a few ideas about how to find the right window time

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Preparing for a garage sale

Holding a garage/yard sale can be a good way to sell things that you no longer want but that others may find useful; however, preparing for it can often be a big job. This week’s tip, shared by debuck3, offers a way to help make the preparatory work

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Cooling off before making big purchases

Many people set themselves their own rules for how and when to make big purchases, often including some time to decide on the purchase. In a different take on impulse shopping, this week’s tip (shared by tomrush) incorporates an additional component of “cooling off” before deciding to make any

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