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: #Chore for #Reward

If you find yourself hitting the postpone button too often on tasks you’re avoiding, this week’s tip from fabian.hemmert may be helpful: he describes how he rewards himself with more “fun” tasks only after completing some of his chores. For me, there are two basic kinds of

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making your boss happy

When working on teams, it can be helpful to separate your own tasks from those that require more teamwork; when working with your boss, this is even more important. This week’s tip, shared by dennis.tarwood, discusses a useful way to separate one’s own tasks from those that

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing college readings as a student with ADHD

Organizing oneself in college can be difficult, especially when one has ADHD. This week’s tip, shared by elisabethericson, discusses some specifics in setting up an entire semester of readings for the most effective day-to-day management. This isn’t revolutionary by any means, but as a college student with ADHD

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Updates

Help us decide! Vote on ideas for Remember The Milk

We love getting feedback here at Remember The Milk, and it seems like you guys love sending it too – there’s been 24,150 posts in our Ideas forum since we launched. :) With that much feedback, we can’t implement every idea (no matter how many bananas we feed Bob

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting to 100 push-ups

If you have a hard time remembering to exercise or tracking your routines, this week’s tip, shared by danigiri, may help; Dani discusses using Remember The Milk to work up to 100 push-ups. Recently I stumbled onto this book ‘7 weeks to 100 push-ups’ that details a routine to

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Introducing Remember The Milk for iPad

We’re huge iPad fans here at Remember The Milk (our moms are, too!) and consider it to be a revolutionary (and magical :) new device. So when Apple announced that developers could start building apps for the iPad, our resident mobile app guru was on the case. That was just

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Serendipitous tasks

Who says you can’t plan serendipity? This week’s tip, shared by thorstenvpk, describes a nice idea for scheduling surprise tasks: For some days of the month, not every day, but likely often, I set a task for me or my friends to be surprised. For myself that could

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Zen priorities

Spending a little too much time prioritizing, and not enough doing? This week’s tip, shared by kkingman, shows a different way to use priorities to highlight just the tasks you need to focus on each day: Adding a priority when I added a task always seemed so arbitrary. All

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Winning contests

Many people use Remember The Milk to keep track of all sorts of tasks—work, home; urgent, important; etc. This week’s tip, shared by radmoose, describes a way to keep track of contests you’d like to enter. While I live an active life with a constantly changing list,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking conference deadlines

Many students and professionals attend regular conferences throughout the year. This week’s tip, shared by nickelsen, describes one way to keep track of upcoming conferences and their deadlines. Research assistants and PhD students within the same research area often attend the same scientific conferences. Until now, each researcher managed

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Updates

Remember The Milk for Gmail updated with Firefox 4 support

We’ve released an update today to the Remember The Milk for Gmail add-on, improving our support for Firefox 4. Before the update, our add-on wasn’t playing too nicely with the latest Firefox release, sometimes causing the browser to freeze. :( If you’re using this add-on with Firefox, the

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