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: Saving time and frustration at the video store

This week’s winner, RTM user kristian.domagala, shared a helpful tip to prepare for video store visits: When going to the video store to hire out a DVD, I used to find it very frustrating to try to find something that I wanted to see. Either I didn’t

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Updates

iPhone app update: Now with Smart Add goodness

The latest version of the Remember The Milk app is now available on the App Store – w00t! The biggest addition in version 1.2.0 is support for Smart Add with a handy new ‘Add Task’ bar. Add tasks quickly (and with as many properties as you like!) by using

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Bring your tasks to the desktop with GeekTool

GeekTool is a handy utility for Mac OS X that allows you to embed all kinds of stuff (specifically files, images, or command output) on your Mac desktop. Seeking a way to show Remember The Milk tasks on the desktop, RTM user dws90 has written and shared a script for

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Going crazy with advanced searches

This week’s tip comes courtesy of RTM user wcitypoe, who has some fantastic examples of just how advanced you can get with the advanced search operators. While wcitypoe describes it as “how to be far too complex with RTM’s advanced search”, but I say there’s no such

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Behind the Scenes

Birthday #4

Four years ago yesterday, we breathed a sigh of relief: after more than a year of development, our super-secret project was finally ready to launch! Little did we know that the adventure of Remember The Milk was only just beginning… Five days after our launch, there was already a crazy

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Create a Smart Add cheat sheet on your phone

Want to use Smart Add when emailing tasks to Remember The Milk, but having trouble remembering all the different properties you can include alongside your task name? Try this helpful tip from RTM user jwander14 (while jwander14 is using an iPhone, this general idea will work on many phones). I

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Updates

Mmm, Donut

Bob’s feeling slightly ill after consuming a few too many baked goods to celebrate the launch of Android 1.6 (aka “Donut”). Despite his sugar-induced stupor, Bob reminded me to let everyone know that Remember The Milk for Android is Donut-tested and ready (yay!). This might be handy to

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Featured Apps

App for the milk brings your tasks to the desktop

Looking to get your Remember The Milk fix on your desktop? App for the milk is a handy new desktop client developed by Christoph Peter. The app allows you to manage your tasks in a stand-alone window, and works both online and offline (changes made when offline will be synchronized

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember the blog

Bloggers have a lot of regular tasks: from the obvious “write a new blog post” task, to researching topics, tweaking the design and features, and blog promotion. RTM user and blogger, soloviov, shared four great tips on using Remember The Milk to stay on top of these tasks and “make

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Focusing on tasks due now, not later

This week’s tip comes courtesy of RTM user bunchbob, who shared this very handy search criteria: If you use the time feature in the due date to time things out, you can use the Smart List “dueBefore:now” and it will bring up anything you can do anytime today,

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Updates

New for Pro: Remember The Milk for Android

It turns out that Androids do dream of electric cows! We’re super excited to be launching Remember The Milk for Android, a feature-packed app that brings Remember The Milk goodness to your Android device. The app is now available as a free download on the Android Market for Pro

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Mind dumping with email + Smart Add

Too many tasks cluttering up your brain? Try out this very useful tip from RTM user ovanrijswijk: Those of you who are using RTM as a GTD-system might also be using “Mind Dumps”. A mind dump is simply a way for you to get everything out of your head and

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