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: Adding birthday reminders with Address Book

Always forgetting to mail out those birthday cards? RTM user odelaney has come up with a cool way to hook up RTM with your Mac Address Book: I wanted to setup a way of getting automatic tasks sent to RTM when someone’s birthday was coming up. I know I

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Buzz

Webware 100 Winner (again!)

We were thrilled to learn that RTM is a Webware 100 Awards winner in the Productivity category, for the second year in a row. Thanks to everyone who voted us! :) It’s a big honour to be included; after receiving more than 6,000 nominations, the editors selected 300 finalists.

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember to pamper yourself

Who said tasks can’t be fun? RTM user burdejanie posted this fantastic tip on the Tips & Tricks forum: One element that I’ve been using that others might be interested in adding is adding “pamper me” updates. I’ve created a list of things I’d like to

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Task status at a glance with Ambient Devices

This week’s tip has made me jealous; it has to be one of the coolest ways to view your task status. RTM user aroussos explains the awesome hack he posted this week on the Tips & Tricks forum: In my continuing quest to have the best task/life integration,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Staying in touch

It’s not often that a tip posted on the Tips & Tricks forum makes me laugh, but this one did (only because I’m slightly embarrassed to confess that I’m a follower of this tip!). Like many people, RTM user doster likes to stay in contact with old

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Behind the Scenes

Join the RTM team: Technical Support Engineer

Are you a great troubleshooter and on the lookout for a challenging technical support role, but also love to tinker with code on the side? If you’re a technically-minded people person, and want to help over 1.5 million people use RTM and all its services, then this position

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Memorising and motivation

This week’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday entry is a bit different to the ideas we’ve shared over the last few weeks. Firstly, we have two winners - david.esposito1 and dwr816 - and secondly, we’re moving away from technical tips and looking at how RTM can help

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using sleeper tags

Welcome to this week’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday! This week we’re looking at the idea of “sleeper tags”, as suggested by RTM user rajjan. This tip allows you to decide how far in advance (in relation to the due date) a task appears in your RTM Smart List.

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember The Tags

Today’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday entry is so helpful, I’m not sure how I’ve been able to use Remember The Milk without it! Thanks to ralfvd for posting this on the forum. As I’ve mentioned in the past few weeks, the beauty of RTM is its

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Featured Apps

Windows Vista sidebar gadget for Remember The Milk

For Windows Vista users: check out the fantastic I Forgot The Milk gadget created by ilab. This customizable gadget gives quick access to your RTM tasks directly from the Vista sidebar, and makes it easy to add and edit your tasks and notes. Looking for more ways to interact with

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Time Estimates

This week’s idea comes from RTM user chandra.gaajula, who shared a great tip in the Tips & Tricks forum recently. Like me, Chandra sounds like he has lots of different tasks in various lists and he likes to know how much time he needs to set aside to

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Updates

Now supported: IE8

With the recent release of IE8, we’ve been tweaking RTM to make sure that it runs as smoothly as possible in this browser; we’re now happy to add IE8 to our list of officially supported browsers. IE8 is faster than previous versions of IE (making RTM faster too!

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