Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Behind the Scenes

Introducing our new Community Manager, Japanese blog and Twitter

We’re excited to introduce Shun Fukuzawa, our new Community Manager (Japanese language). Shun’s re-launched our Remember The Milk Japan Blog at blog.rememberthemilk.jp, where he’ll be sharing all the latest Remember The Milk news, tips, and happenings. Remember The Milk is also now on Twitter in

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of vegetables

Do you find it hard to remember to eat your vegetables before they go bad? simon.blais shares his way of keeping track of weekly vegetable deliveries: To avoid wasting vegetables as much as possible, I keep an up to date list of the vegetables I have on hand to

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Behind the Scenes

Making the iPhone 4 more cow-like

We were ridiculously excited to get hold of the iPhone 4 here in Australia, at long last. After the thrill of unboxing, though, we discovered a serious issue with the device. Nope, not the antenna (that works just fine). It was much, much worse: the iPhone 4 didn’t have

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Avoid heatstroke with time-based tags

The awesomeness of tags is that you can use them to organize your tasks any way you want to. This tip, shared by Amy in Alabama, demonstrates a creative use of time-based tags: I live in the Deep South. It’s August. The heat index is 100+. There are some

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping your house clean, one room at a time

Have trouble maintaining a clean house? This tip shared by emily.hawe aims to turn cleaning from a daunting prospect to something that might actually get done: I don’t know about you, but I’m often overwhelmed by the idea of cleaning my whole house. I used to wait

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Automating library books

Library book automation? Yup, nkirsch has come up with a brilliant way to keep track of library books using Remember The Milk and a little bit of code: I use RTM, the API, and a Python script to crawl my local library’s RSS feed. I automatically find books that

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Updates

An update on support for iOS 4

Bob’s been furiously working away on our iPhone app to make it iOS 4 compatible, consuming vast amounts of bananas to get the job done. We were relieved when he finally emerged from his lab last week and gave us the “submit this to Apple for approval” nod (he’

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: The power of tagContains

The advanced search operators in Remember The Milk can be pretty powerful – particularly when used in a Smart List, as in this excellent example shared by sylviavas. I’ve gone from using regular lists almost exclusively to using tags and Smart Lists - they’re so versatile. But I have

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