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: Separating tasks by context

Getting distracted by all the tasks you can’t do in your current context? This tip shared by ralfvd provides a great solution using a clever Smart List: My list of activities is split in locations, @work, @home, @phone, @web etc. During my working day, I can complete all activities

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Start your list with the least important task

We all know the feeling – your task list is just so long that you have absolutely no idea where to start (and you’re wondering if heading straight back home to bed is a valid option). Try this tip shared by joheine the next time you’re having trouble getting

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Adding tasks via text message

As sandiegan discovered, there’s a neat trick with  Remember The Milk for Twitter – adding tasks super quickly via text message! So you don’t have a smartphone – big whoop. It’s still possible to remember “Oh, I have to do ____” and add it to RTM without having to write

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Shared lists for getting housework done

This handy tip from kerobb is a great way to use shared lists and keep on top of your chores. Thanks to this tip, I’ve shared lists with Bob to get him to help with the cleaning around here – he’s surprisingly good at doing the dishes! My husband

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Top 5 tasks

Having trouble deciding what to focus on? Keep getting distracted by the not-so-important tasks on your list? kathryn.white shared a great tip on selecting your “top 5” tasks to help you stay on track: After reading Michael Heppell’s book on How To Be Brilliant, one of his suggestions

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Minimize your food wastage

Ah, what to have for dinner tonight… it’s always a tricky question (and even more so when you have a fussy stuffed monkey in your household). zeebacca uses Remember The Milk to keep track of food purchases and expiry dates – a handy way to answer the “what’s for

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Spotify + Remember The Milk

This week’s tip, shared by odelaney (who’s lucky enough to have access to Spotify :), describes a great way to keep track of all the awesome new music you’ve always meant to listen to which has somehow gotten lost in a huge playlist: I’m an avid Spotify

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: The perfect bill organizer

Bills. There’s a lot of them and they’re everywhere. No one likes bills, but there’s one good thing about them – they’ve got due dates. And we all know where due dates love to live: Remember The Milk! This week, andrewcilento shares his tips on managing bills

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Updates

The future of offline: HTML5 and web standards

We’re big fans of offline web apps at Remember The Milk; when Google Gears was released in 2007, to say that we were excited would be an understatement. We spent a caffeine-fuelled weekend frantically coding to make Remember The Milk the first web app after Google Reader to work

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