Some of you may have experienced problems with our Remember The Milk for Gmail Firefox extension this week – it turned out that Google made some significant coding architecture changes to Gmail, and unfortunately our extension wasn’t compatible with these changes.
We know just how much many of you were
A couple of weeks ago, we had scheduled maintenance at RTM while we completed some upgrades and added additional hardware. Unfortunately some of the new hardware hasn’t performed quite as well as we would have liked, so we need to schedule a second round of maintenance to switch hardware
We’re super excited to be visiting Tokyo later this month, and thought that it would be the perfect location to host our first ever RTM meetup. If you’re in Tokyo, please join us and other RTM users on January 20 for some drinks at The Pink Cow (naturally!
There’s an article about Remember The Milk in the Australian Financial Review today – thanks to Josh Gliddon for writing about us! If you’re interested, you can read the article online here :)
Whew, it’s been one busy year at RTM HQ. It’s been so much of a blur that we had trouble remembering what we’d done this year, so we thought we’d end the year by sharing some of our favourite happenings from 2007.
Crazy about the iPhone
Here’s one for users of GNOME (a desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems). Sebastian Pölsterl has created a handy Deskbar module for Remember The Milk. It supports adding new tasks; searching your incomplete tasks; and completing, postponing, deleting, moving, and changing priority of your tasks. Cool :)
Using GNOME? Check
Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow (New Year’s Day), starting at 5pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). The site will be down for up to two hours while we perform some upgrades and add additional hardware.
In addition to making RTM a little faster
If you’re a Mac user, you may be familiar with the incredibly handy Quicksilver, which allows you to rapidly perform tasks on your Mac with quick keyboard shortcuts.
Brian Moore has created an awesome Quicksilver plug-in, Remember The Milk for Quicksilver, bringing RTM and Quicksilver together. You can quickly
It’s no secret that we’re big Google fans here at Remember The Milk: we provide task management in Google Calendar, have an iGoogle Gadget, send reminders via Google Talk, show task locations with Google Maps, and provide offline access with Google Gears.
However, integration with one Google product
When we heard that the founders of one of our fave sites, reddit, happened to be in Sydney, we jumped at the chance to meet up with them. We’ve spent many an hour procrastinating on reddit (particularly visiting links from the programming community), so it was awesome to meet
Remember The Milk is now available in Danish, Portuguese (Portugal), and Romanian, bringing the total number of available languages to 24 (yay!). Thank you to all of the awesome translation volunteers around the world who have helped to make this possible!
If you’d like to use RTM in one
We were thrilled to see Remember The Milk included in a new Japanese book, シゴトはネットで片づける!, which is all about using Web 2.0 tools for GTD.
Unfortunately I can’t tell you what it says because my Japanese skills are a little lacking, but author of RTM Japan blog Hiroshi
