Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Updates

Add your tasks to Google Personalized Homepage

We heard you! By popular demand, we’ve created a Remember The Milk gadget which you can add to your Google Personalized Homepage. You can now review your tasks alongside your calendar, mail, weather forecasts, and feeds (you can choose from hundreds of gadgets to personalize your page). What does

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Five new languages available

Our aim is to make Remember The Milk available in as many of the world’s languages as possible. Thanks to our translation volunteers, we’ve been able to add another five languages: Czech, Italian, Korean, Polish, and Russian (You can change your language preference on the Settings screen in

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Behind the Scenes

Birthday #1

Wow! It’s hard to believe that it’s been a whole year since we launched Remember The Milk. We’d like to say a huge thank you to all of our wonderful users (there are over 100,000 of you now!). Your valuable feedback has helped us to continually

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Updates

Scheduled maintenance

Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow night, starting at 7pm 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. Thanks for your patience! Update: The maintenance

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Put your tasks on the map

Remember The Milk makes sure that you never forget when tasks are due (or as New York Magazine put it recently, “Remember the Milk not only helps you remember to buy the damn milk, it hunts you down to make you remember to buy the damn milk”). With our new

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Events

Designing Remember The Milk (Sydney, August 31st)

I’ll be speaking at an upcoming Web Directions Free Event – so if you’re in Sydney and interested in learning more about the design of Remember The Milk, please come along :) Lessons learned from designing the interface of Remember The Milk Emily will talk about creating rich AJAX interfaces

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Four new languages available

Thanks to our wonderful translation volunteers, Remember The Milk is now available in: Bosnian, German, Swedish, and Turkish (You can change your language preference on the Settings screen in your account.) As with the first eight languages that we announced, Remember The Milk understands due dates and input in these

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Events

Building Remember The Milk (Sydney, August 3rd)

The Remember The Milk team will be presenting at the upcoming Sydney PHP Group meeting, to be held on Thursday, August 3rd at 6:30pm at New Horizons, Level 6, 31 Market Street, Sydney. Feel free to come along and say hi if you’re in the area. We’ll

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Skype reminders now supported

Furthering our never-ending quest to support reminders for every instant messenger service on Earth, we’ve added support for Skype reminders (text reminders, not voice at this stage – although we did toy with the idea of teaching Bob T. how to make Skype calls so he could do the reminders

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DoCoMo i-mode now supported

Welcome to those who have discovered that Remember The Milk speaks their language (unfortunately our blog is still English-only, but we’ll work on that :) After launching our multi-lingual service last week, we received many emails from users in Japan who were disappointed that the mobile version of Remember The

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Remember The Milk speaks your language

Over the past month, hundreds of volunteers have been working towards translating Remember The Milk into over 40 languages. We’re excited to announce the availability of the first eight languages, with more to follow shortly – Remember The Milk is now available in: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, UK English,

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Buzz

Getting Things Done with Remember The Milk

Tatsuya Yamaji has a great article in Business Mobile (Japanese only) on using Remember The Milk with David Allen’s Getting Things Done or GTD time management method. For those interested in GTD, some of our users have also been posting some helpful tips and tricks about GTD on the

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