Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Updates

Redesign time

As some of you may have noticed, we’ve just updated the Remember The Milk website with a whole new look. We also took the chance to reorganise the site’s content and navigation, so hopefully it should be a little easier to discover everything that RTM has to offer.

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Introducing the official Remember The Milk Japan Blog

One of the most challenging aspects of developing Remember The Milk is our focus on localizing the service into as many of the world’s languages as possible. The service is available in 21 languages, and we strive to make the site as comfortable to use for our Japanese users

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Behind the Scenes

Bob goes to Google Developer Day

The entire Remember The Milk team (both of us and the monkey) headed down to the Australian Technology Park this morning for Google Developer Day 2007. Over 400 developers attended the event and some really awesome tech was announced. RTM was one of six finalists in the “Speed Geeking” competition

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Get the milk faster than ever!

As our user base has grown to more than 200,000 users, we’ve worked hard over the past 1.5 years to ensure that Remember The Milk always loads as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, the load times haven’t been as fast as we’d like over the last

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Tips & Tricks

21 useful searches for your tasks

The advanced search operators in Remember The Milk are pretty powerful, and RTM users have come up with all kinds of creative searches to find the tasks they’re looking for. Following are some of the coolest searches that users have shared in the forums, as well as some handy

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Gadget improvements

We love gadgets here at Remember The Milk: we’ve created gadgets for iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage), Google Calendar, and Netvibes. These gadgets are a great way to review and manage your upcoming tasks. What’s new? We’re happy to introduce a much requested feature: you can now

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Behind the Scenes

Bob's CeBIT Adventure

This week’s been an exciting one for RTM mascot Bob T. Monkey: he attended CeBIT Australia in Darling Harbour. Bob spent time networking with fellow company mascots, made a bunch of new friends, and managed to get himself into some interesting situations… Check out the photos from Bob’s

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Behind the Scenes

200,000 and counting

Wow, it’s hard to believe that there are more than 200,000 of you now! It wasn’t too long ago that we were excited to see Remember The Milk pass 100,000 registered users. Thanks to each and every one of you for your support in our quest

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Updates

Scheduled maintenance

Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance today, starting at 12pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). The site will be down for up to two hours – we’ll do our best to complete the maintenance as quickly as possible. We apologise for this downtime, but we’re

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Updates

Network problems

Our primary data center is currently experiencing some network problems, making the site unavailable. Sorry to everyone for the inconvenience – we’ll post once this is resolved. Update 3:00PM Sydney time: The data center is still experiencing problems – unfortunately it looks like this is a power outage due to

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New language available

Following the launch of Hungarian and Norwegian last month, Remember The Milk is now available in Latvian. Thanks to the translation volunteers who have helped to make Latvian available! RTM understands due dates and input in Latvian too – so you can enter Monday or pirmdiena. If you’d like to

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Updates

The little things

We’ve added a bunch of improvements to Remember The Milk this week. We hope you like them! Add tasks to Smart Lists Smart Lists are one of the most powerful features in RTM: you can create a special list based on criteria that you define, and it’s automatically

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