Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Updates

Server issues

We’ve experienced some intermittent server issues over the past day or so, which has meant that the site has been briefly unavailable at times. We’re working our hardest to resolve this, and apologise to everyone inconvenienced by the outages. This is the first time that we’ve experienced

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Remember The Milk In Your Language

We really enjoy hearing from people all around the world who use Remember The Milk to manage their daily lives. Many users have requested that we make the service available in their native language so that their friends and family can use it too. We’d love to make our

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Use Remember The Milk from your phone

How many times have you walked into the supermarket and realised that you’ve not only forgotten your shopping list, but everything that was on it? Never again! You can now access your Remember The Milk lists wherever you are with our new mobile-friendly version at https://m.rememberthemilk.com/

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Gadu-Gadu reminders now supported

Earlier today we received an email from Krzysztof in Poland. Krzysztof and many of his friends use Remember The Milk, and he asked if we could provide Gadu-Gadu reminders (Gadu-Gadu is the most popular instant messaging service in Poland). So, we got to work. To make things more challenging, the

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Announcing the Remember The Milk API

Over the last couple of months, we’ve been quietly working away on some new additions to the Remember The Milk service. We’re excited to announce today that the Remember The Milk API is now ready for public use. The API allows developers to write applications that interact with

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Show tasks on your calendar (part 2)

We recently added the ability to view your tasks with calendar software – it turns out this feature is a popular one! We’ve now made it a little easier to subscribe to your tasks, and have added detailed instructions (with screenshots) to our help section. If you’re looking for

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Show tasks on your calendar

The iCalendar service now features the ability to export tasks as events. This means that you can view your tasks with calendar software such as Google Calendar, Apple iCal and Mozilla Sunbird, which will normally only display events (and not tasks) on the calendar. To access your tasks as events,

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Edit multiple tasks and more

New features! No, not the ‘big new things’ that we’ve been working on (yet!), but here are a few little improvements that we’ve made in the meantime. Multi-edit mode Need to tag a bunch of tasks at once, or give them the same due date? Introducing multi-edit mode.

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Behind the Scenes

Remember The Milk... powered by coffee

We’re hard at work on some big new things here at Remember The Milk headquarters, which means our coffee consumption has increased accordingly (and we were already big coffee addicts!). Don’t believe us? Check out how much Bob T. has been drinking all by himself… and that’s

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AIM reminders down

Reminders via AIM are unfortunately down right now (other instant messenger networks are unaffected). We’re in touch with AOL, and hope to have this resolved soon. Update: AIM reminders are working again. Sorry to everyone inconvenienced by the downtime.

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Now with tagging, searching, and Smart List goodness

We’ve been working hard on our latest release, and we’re excited to announce that Remember The Milk now has three major new features: tagging, searching, and (our personal favourite) Smart Lists. Tagging You can now add tags (otherwise known as keywords) to tasks to make them easier to

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Behind the Scenes

Happy New Year

The team at Remember The Milk would like to wish everyone a happy, safe, and organized new year :) We look forward to helping all of our wonderful users (hi to all those new users who read about Remember The Milk in Popular Science!) organize their lives (and stick to their

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