Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Tips & Tricks

Guest Post: Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk

I’m happy to introduce a guest post from Doug Ireton, who’s written a fantastic guide to Getting Things Done with RTM. Doug is a Sr. Platform Engineer on the Windows Server team at Nordstrom, a luxury clothing retailer based in Seattle, Washington. He is an avid Remember The

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Updates

Scheduled maintenance [complete]

Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow (Sunday), starting at 4:00pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). The site will be down for up to three hours while we perform an upgrade to improve site performance, and we’ll post again here once we’re done.

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Updates

Network problems [resolved]

A number of network carriers around the US have been experiencing problems today, unfortunately causing some issues with connections to our primary data center. This means you might experience trouble loading RTM, depending on your location and the route that your Internet connection decides to take to our servers. Our

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Updates

New for Pro: Introducing MilkSync for BlackBerry

It’s been a much-requested feature, so we’re very excited today to be launching the second application based on our MilkSync task synchronization platform: MilkSync for BlackBerry! MilkSync for BlackBerry (as demonstrated by Bob T. Monkey in the above photo) is an application that synchronizes Remember The Milk with

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Buzz

Webware 100 Winner!

We’re thrilled that Remember The Milk is a CNET Webware 100 Awards winner in the Productivity category. Thanks to everyone who voted for RTM! It’s a big honour to be included; after receiving more than 5,000 nominations, the editors selected 300 finalists. The top 100 Web 2.

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Updates

Taming your email with Gmail and Remember The Milk

As an organization freak, I love reading about how other people manage their email (I’m on a never-ending quest to attain Inbox Zero, so I need all the advice I can get). This month, it was awesome to see that two fantastic bloggers have shared how they’re using

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Featured Apps

Getting organized with Tasque

If you’re a GNOME user looking for a simple-yet-powerful task management tool that integrates with RTM, then check out the very cool Tasque by Boyd Timothy and Calvin Gaisford. Boyd and Calvin worked on Tasque as part of a Novell Hackweek project, and gave a demonstration of the application

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Featured Apps

Mooing away with Common Lisp

Edgar Gonçalves has put together an awesome (and feature-rich!) Common Lisp API kit for RTM and has written about his experiences working with CL and the RTM API on his blog: Enter Common Lisp. Perhaps the fastest way to do some scripting in my mind, but I’ve yet to

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Updates

Add the cow to your desktop with Google Gears

Are you using Remember The Milk with Google Gears so you can manage your tasks offline? The latest version of Google Gears comes with a handy new feature – the option to create a shortcut icon on your desktop for quick access to RTM. If you’re connected to the Internet,

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Behind the Scenes

We grew!

We’re really excited to announce today that we have a new member of the RTM team – and it’s a human! (Unlike the last time…) Ab recently graduated with his Computer Science degree from the University of New South Wales and, like the rest of the team, resides in

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Updates

Scheduled maintenance

Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance today, starting at 2:30pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). The site will be down for up to two hours while we perform some upgrades, and we’ll post again here once we’re done. Thank you for your patience!

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Behind the Scenes

Half a million organized people

We could never have imagined this when we started Remember The Milk, but we’re ecstatic to have reached 500,000 users! (That’s Bob with his ecstatic face above… I know it looks a lot like his regular face, but trust me, he’s happy.) We wanted to say

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