Emily Boyd

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

San Francisco, California
Emily Boyd
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Updates

Feature updates

Here’s what we’ve been busy adding this week… Shorter email addresses When we created the feature for adding tasks via email, one of our big concerns was ensuring that spam wouldn’t appear in to-do lists (hey, we didn’t want to invent task spam!). We gave everyone

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Jabber and Yahoo! Messenger reminders now supported

We’ve added support for Jabber and Yahoo! Messenger reminders. You can enable these reminder services under Settings / Reminders. Looks like we now support all instant messaging services! Woohoo!

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Updates

AIM reminders down

For anyone who has their Remember The Milk account set to send reminders via AIM, unfortunately AIM reminders are 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 once again. Thanks to

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Updates

Introducing Quick Add

Ever forgotten to pay the phone bill? Failed an exam because you forgot when it was? Missed out on tickets to that once-in-a-lifetime Hilary Duff concert because you forgot when they went on sale? Didn’t get to own that vintage Cabbage Patch Kid you saw on eBay because you

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Updates

Updates

We’ve been busy, and so have our users – the last three days have been our most active to date. We’re sorry we haven’t blogged for a while, but we’ve been fixing bugs and developing new and exciting features based on the enormous amount of feedback we’

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Updates

Top 5 questions

Here are the top 5 questions we’ve received since launch, and their answers. 1. Will Remember The Milk be available in my language? We’ve received many offers to translate Remember The Milk into different languages. We currently have volunteers interested in translating into Chinese (Traditional), German, Italian, Japanese,

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Behind the Scenes

50,000 tasks

As of… right now, there are over 50,000 to-do tasks being managed with Remember The Milk. We’ve received a tremendous amount of feedback over the past 5 days, and thought we’d share some of it. Around the web Goyishekop: New web services are emerging thick and fast…

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Stability issues ("blank pages") addressed

Some users have reported seeing blank pages and the “lists.load failed, try again?” message over the past day or so. This turned out to be a problem within our caching layer, and we think we’ve now addressed it. If the issue persists, please let us know. We’re

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Behind the Scenes

Day One

Thank you to the thousands of people from all over the world who’ve signed up and tried Remember The Milk over the past day. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response we’ve received; sorry if we’re a little slow replying to emails right now (remember, we’re

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Updates

Remember The Milk is live!

It’s been a long year, but we’ve finally launched our super secret project, Remember The Milk. The coolest, easiest, bestest way to manage your to-do lists!

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