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: Organising your tag cloud

One of the handiest features of RTM is the ability to categorise and label each task using tags. Tags are simply keywords that you can use to make it easier to find tasks and to organise them for later use. These tags are stored in the tag cloud, which appears

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Buzz

A man in a cow suit?

How great is this photo! I came across it while browsing through Flickr and had to share it on the blog. This young man is an Education student at Purdue University and he was involved in an info session about Web 2.0 technologies and their role in teaching and

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday

Welcome to the very first Tips & Tricks Tuesday! This is going to be a weekly spot where I’ll bring to you some of the most useful Remember The Milk tips and tricks that have been posted on the forums by our wonderful users. If you’re looking for

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Featured Apps

Remember The Milk with GNOME Do

Here’s one for users of GNOME (a desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems, for the uninitiated). Peng Deng has created a cool Remember The Milk plugin for GNOME Do. The plugin allows you to filter your tasks (and use advanced search operators) as well as quickly create new tasks,

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Behind the Scenes

5 RTM humans + 1 monkey meet in Sydney

Last week was an especially exciting one for the RTM team: we held our very first in-person development team meetup since Michael and Arty have joined us, and we got to meet our newest team members for the first time! Michael flew over to Sydney from Mexico City, and Arty

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Behind the Scenes

The new girl

Hi everyone! My name is Krissy and I’m the new Community Manager here at Remember The Milk. I’ve been a user of RTM for about a year now and I love it. I’ve found that I’m a lot more productive if I write tasks down and

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Behind the Scenes

An extraordinarily belated happy 2009!

Wow, 2009 is really flying by isn’t it? It seems like yesterday we were celebrating Christmas and New Years and here we are in February already. If this first month or so is anything to go by, 2009 will zip past before we know it! We’re (more than

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Behind the Scenes

Happy Monkey Day!

Yes, today is Monkey Day, a holiday celebrated internationally on December 14. We’re big fans of all things simian at RTM; we even have a monkey on our team. In honour of Monkey Day, we gave Bob T. Monkey the day off. He headed to a favourite monkey holiday

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Updates

Remember The Milk for iPhone (minor app updates)

Since the launch of our app on the App Store last month, we’ve released several new versions containing a bunch of bug fixes and enhancements (full details of the changes we’ve made are available in the release notes, for those interested in the nitty gritty). The latest version

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Updates

Now supported: Google Chrome

We remarked 3 months ago how popular the just-released Google Chrome was proving with RTM users. At that time, we hadn’t yet added Google Chrome to our list of ‘officially’ supported browsers (as we usually wait for browsers to come out of the beta stage). As Google Chrome recently

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Updates

Seven new languages available

Remember The Milk is now available in Albanian, Catalan, Esperanto, Lithuanian, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. This brings the total number of available languages to 31 (w00t!) – thank you to all of the wonderful translation volunteers from around the world who have helped to make this possible! :) RTM understands due

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