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: Magician's Choice

This week’s tip, shared by biokinton, discusses how a magician can use Remember The Milk to manage their tricks. Like many of the tips we share here, it’s interesting to think how it could be applied to other things as well. So, not only is RTM infinitely useful

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Creating "bucket lists" for better living

If you use Remember The Milk to keep track of everything, you may want to create a Smart List for those less urgent tasks that would be satisfying to complete. This week’s tip, shared by lon247, highlights a way to create so-called bucket lists: There are things that I’

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Updates

Seeking 100 testers for our iPad app

The launch of our iPad app is right around the corner, but we have one thing left to do: test! We’re super excited about this app, and would love to be able to invite every single member of our Pro Tester Program to help us test, but this time

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Get a refund on price drops

This week’s tip, shared by mmorowitz, features a novel way to use Remember The Milk to help save money after a large purchase: I recently purchased a new dishwasher from a local retailer. I asked if they had a price-drop guarantee. They, like many retailers, will guarantee you the

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Support for Japan

Remember The Milk users from Japan have always been great supporters of our service; the city with by far the most Remember The Milk users in the world is Tokyo (with other cities in Japan not far behind), indicating the level of support we’ve been fortunate enough to receive.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting movie recommendations from friends

If you forget which movies your friends suggest, this week’s tip, shared by gordonswaby, offers a solution for how they can get a recommendation to you that you’ll actually watch later. :) I’m really picky about the movies I watch and I’m highly annoyed when I watch

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Developing a good habit

In this week’s tip, bazman90 recounts how he used a series of tasks to help him drink more water: I had a health check in work recently and was told I was only just hydrated enough, so I thought what would help me remember to drink water regularly through

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Recurring Projects and Smart Add

This week’s tip, shared by hogan82, covers using our email service plus Smart Add to quickly add a series of tasks related to a specific project. [Using Smart Add and email] I now create task lists for recurring projects (e.g., quarterly patch updates) in Microsoft Word that include

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of untagged tasks

It’s great to be organized—a list of tasks, all lined up and ready to be completed—but it helps to set up methods to help keep yourself organized too. This week’s tip, shared by sylviavas, features a great method for organizing those tasks that you add quickly:

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Half Marathon Training

If your exercise routine seems unmanageable, check out this week’s tip, shared by robyn.horn, on training for a half marathon: Recently, I felt pretty overwhelmed looking at my datebook, trying to keep all of my training and cross-training straight for an upcoming half marathon – so I simplified. I

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dieting with Remember The Milk

If you’re keeping up with some New Year’s resolutions in full swing, or just watching what you eat, this week’s tip shared by bonniefaust, offers a good way to keep tabs on what you’re eating: Like many people, my husband and I made a New Years

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