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: Keeping track of small reimbursements

If you have trouble remembering to whom you’ve lent money then this week’s tip, shared by chrisstreeter, shows you a way to keep track: Whenever someone owes me money (I buy movie tickets, concert tickets, pay a house bill), I create a new task with a 1 week

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Track your cash spending

Whether or not you use a financial tool to track your finances, this week’s tip—shared by nekodojo—will help you keep track of your cash; no more wondering where it’s gone. :) I use Quicken for tracking my finances. Luckily my bank has everything linked up electronically, but

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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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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember your thank-yous

Got gifts? This week’s tip, shared by cainebryce, is for you! With all the giving that happens during the holidays, here’s a way that I’m starting to use in order to keep track of the people I want to send thank-you cards or emails to. Two of

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Updates

Now with 'Always use HTTPS' goodness

Ever since we launched Remember The Milk, we’ve supported secure and encrypted access over HTTPS to the website for all users (of course, passwords are always encrypted when sent over the Internet :). Today we’re making it even easier to always use a secure connection when accessing your tasks

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keep on top of your car's basic maintenance

If you own an automobile, you know how much periodic maintenance they require; it can be a lot to keep up with. This week’s tip, shared by pzbiegiel, helps to make keeping up with maintenance more manageable. Everyone knows that one way to maximize gas mileage on your vehicle

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Fast input for tasks using snippets

If you send a lot of tasks by email, this week’s tip, shared by jans.roeber, may interest you; it provides a quick way to supply a task’s properties to send via email. For the fast entry of task via email I’ve created a snippet called “rrtm”

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Updates

Remember The Milk now available in the Chrome Web Store

Remember The Milk is now available in the just launched Chrome Web Store, a place for Google Chrome users to discover and install apps. Once you install the Remember The Milk app, it’s added to your Chrome start page so you can login with a single click. (You can

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Behind the Scenes

Join the Remember The Milk team: Technical User Support

Do you enjoy helping people? Are you an enthusiastic Remember The Milk user who’s familiar with all of its crazy features? Do you have the technical skills to investigate and resolve bug reports? We have a full-time, “work from anywhere” Technical User Support position available at Remember The Milk.

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Track your Christmas shopping

This week’s timely tip, kindly shared by jessica.bierman, might help to make your Christmas shopping (and gift giving) just a little bit more sane: I use Remember The Milk to track my Christmas shopping. I have multiple family Christmas celebrations and so I use tags to sort out

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