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: Tracking gift cards

If you have a birthday or other holiday coming up, it may be a good time to check out this week’s tip, shared by stesch, about keeping track of gift cards: I received a number of gift cards over the holidays for everything from movie theaters to Macy’s

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Behind the Scenes

Birthday #5

It’s been an exciting five years for us here at Remember The Milk as we’ve grown from a small idea shared by two people (and a stuffed monkey!) to a globally distributed little team of passionate people spread across four continents. Earlier this year, we said thank you

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: How does your garden grow?

How does your garden grow? For dorcas, who shared this week’s tip, the answer is, “With RTM, a PC and pretty tasks all in a row.” Gardening can be great: looking at pretty things, eating tasty fresh things that you have conjured out of the soil, gentle exercise, something

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Avoiding impulse shopping

This week’s tip, shared by miquelmartin, offers a way to keep yourself from buying something as soon as you see it: Whenever I get all enthusiastic about buying something, I find it helps to keep my fingers off it, and make a task such as “Consider buying this” due

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dinner planning with Remember The Milk

We hear about a lot of different things that Remember The Milk users keep track of with their tasks. This week’s tip, shared by erlang, shows how you can use your tasks to manage your family’s meals: First, me and my wife have a shared list in Remember

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Efficient errands with tagging and Smart Lists

This week’s tip, shared by dina.demaio, will help any frequent shoppers make the most of their time out. There have been many times when I’d get home from Target and look at my grocery list, only to realize that I could have picked up the essentials (diapers,

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Behind the Scenes

Join the team: Systems Administrator

Do you spend your days thinking of the perfect way to automate deployment and monitoring of systems? Do thoughts of unpackaged files send shivers down your spine? Do you know your puppets from your chefs? We have a full-time position available for a Systems Administrator at Remember The Milk. If

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Make an email alias to easily add your tasks

This week’s simple, helpful tip comes from rusharound: I love the RTM email address that puts items into your list. The trouble is, it’s a hard one to remember. I made an email alias with my ISP that forwards all email sent to todo@mydomain.com to my

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: The "Ugh!" List

If you find yourself missing or forgetting some tasks, this week’s tip, shared by mark.szoke should help you track those tasks that you keep putting off or that slip under your radar: I have a nasty habit of continually postponing certain tasks, or just “forgetting” to put a

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Updates

Freeing Remember The Milk for iPhone

Until now, our iPhone app has been available as a free download on the App Store only for those of you with a Pro account. We’ve been thinking, though: what if we could share the Remember The Milk love with even more people and help them be productive too,

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