Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Updates

Introducing Smart Add: a smarter way to add your tasks

We’re really excited today to be launching a big update to Remember The Milk – we’re calling it the Smart Add edition (you’ll see why in a minute!). With this update, we’ve focused on making it as fast and easy as possible to add your tasks to

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Mindless tasks for multi-tasking

Looking for tasks that don’t require too much thinking? Check out this helpful tip from RTM user lclarke522: I created a “mindless” tag for those tasks that take a decent amount of time, but don’t require much brain-power (washing dishes, packing orders, etc.). These are perfect tasks to

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Romance planning with Remember The Milk

This week’s winner, RTM user andrew.wilkie, shared a great tip for a more unusual use of Remember The Milk: romance planning! Bob’s been following this tip, and it’s already paying off (see photo, below). andrew.wilkie says: Regular romance is good, certainly if you are in

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Push yourself with Push Notifications

RTM user odelaney is training for the Marathon des Sables, 2011 – a 7-day running race, 150 miles across the Sahara Desert! He’s come up with a creative way of motivating himself, combining tasks with Push Notifications from the iPhone app. This is a great way to keep your motivation

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Featured Apps

Milk the Cow Dashboard Widget for OS X

If you’re looking for a neat way to check out your tasks from your Dashboard, this widget might be for you. Rich Hong’s recently updated Milk the Cow widget allows you to view (and filter!) your Remember The Milk tasks, and easily add and complete individual tasks. For

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Peeking at the week ahead with Smart Lists

This week’s winner, RTM user calexo, shared a cool Smart List set up that helps to keep the week nice and  organised. calexo has different Smart Lists to show tasks that are overdue, due today, due tomorrow, and completed today (for end-of-the-day satisfaction!). My favourite, though, is the Smart

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Updates

Remember The Milk is a-Twitter

We’re big fans of Twitter, and we know that many Remember The Milk users are too (well, there’s 40,000 of you following @rtm, which allows you to manage your tasks via Twitter, if that’s any indication!). We’re excited to announce that the RTM team is

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Behind the Scenes

Meet the Remember The Milk team: Andrew on support

Everyone knows about Bob T. Monkey, but who else is part of the RTM team? In this new series of “Meet the team” posts, I’ll introduce (and quiz!) my fellow human team members. First up, I’d like you to meet Andrew Conkling, tech support engineer. Andrew, what were

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing recipes and meals

We have two Tips & Tricks Tuesday winners this week! Thanks to RTM users nluoma and jkalvin, who both shared interesting tips for a pretty different, useful way to use the app: managing recipes (and we think Bob might need some help, judging by the pic below–what on earth

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Updates

More Cowbell

When we added customizable alert sounds to the iPhone app a few weeks ago, we were curious: would more folks prefer to have their iPhone “moo” or ring with a cowbell when tasks are due? Well, the results are in! Of those who chose a custom sound (we’re not

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making shopping easier

This week, RTM user morgan.parker shares a neat tip that uses a shared list for ultra-efficient shopping. My husband and I use a shared RTM list for our grocery shopping. Each of us can put items on the list when we think of it from either work, home or

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping your wallet small and tidy

Got a wallet so full of random items that it barely fits in your pocket? This week’s tip, shared by RTM user chris089, is for you. Do you know the feeling when you search for something in your wallet and you realize that for the last two months your

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