Behind the Scenes

Highlights of 2007 (as shown by Bob T. Monkey)

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

We fell in love at first sight with the iPhone, and just knew we had to create Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPod touch (okay, so those emails that we were receiving every day asking, “Where’s RTM for the iPhone?” might have encouraged us too).

RTM and Gmail, sitting in a tree…

We only just launched it, but that doesn’t stop it from being one of our faves :) Remember The Milk for Gmail combines, you guessed it, RTM and Gmail for all kinds of task management goodness. W00t!

RTM Pro!

Launching Pro accounts back in August was a pretty big step for us. We’d like to thank everyone who has upgraded their RTM account to Pro since then – we love you! :)

Thanks to you awesome folks, we can keep Bob adequately nourished (he consumes a lot of bananas, what with all the coding that we make him do). Thank you for supporting RTM!

Attack of the gadgets

From the Dashboard Widget for OS X to the Netvibes module to the Yahoo! Widget to the Deskbar module, it really was gadgets galore at RTM this year. There were also improvements to the Google gadgets, and for those looking for other quick ways to add tasks, there was Launchy, Quicksilver, and Firefox Sidebar integration too. (Special thanks to Yoel, Graeme, Sebastian, Don, Brian, John, and everyone who has developed with the API!)

Twitter and Jott your tasks

We love creating new and handy ways to work with your tasks. So, we developed Twitter integration, making it possible to add tasks and interact with RTM using Twitter (via SMS, IM, the website, and third-party apps).

Also very handy is Jott integration. Thanks to the nice folks over at the incredibly cool Jott, you can now add tasks to RTM using only your voice. It’s especially useful when you’re out and about, and suddenly remember something you need to add to RTM.

Syncing with your Milk

It had been highly requested ever since we started RTM. September saw the launch of MilkSync, our super cool task synchronization platform that allows RTM to talk to other software and devices. Yay!

The first application based on this sync platform was MilkSync for Windows Mobile (which also happened to be our first Pro feature).

Speaking Japanese (and more)

This year we launched the Remember The Milk Japan blog at blog.rememberthemilk.jp, and welcomed the wonderful Hiroshi Miyazaki as the official Japanese blogger for RTM. We didn’t forget other languages either, with more localizations this year: Danish, Hungarian, Latvian, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), and Romanian. Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped to make RTM available in 24 languages!

We drank coffee in this proportion to our body sizes

Going offline with Gears

One of the really cool new technologies launched this year was Google Gears (so cool, in fact, that it was #1 on the list of the 25 Most Innovative Products of the Year).

After much caffeine, we launched offline access with Google Gears, so you can manage your tasks on a plane or anywhere that’s Internet-less.

Remember the application

The application is very much the heart of RTM – we launched a bunch of improvements (including some cool Smart List functionality), overhauled our architecture making things faster, added the much-requested sorting, and announced the new version of the application, RTM reloaded in November. The website wasn’t left out either, with a complete redesign, the addition of the Tips & Tricks forum, and an upgraded support system.

Bob at his first trade show... aw, growing up!

Adventures of a mascot

Bob T. Monkey continues to be as cheeky as ever. He had quite an action-packed year, getting up to mischief at CeBIT, speed geeking (!) at Google Developer Day, and catching up with the reddit founders.

Bob was joined this year by a new RTM mascot, Cow, who helped us to celebrate our second birthday in October. Cow is already showing impressive coding ability (for a stuffed animal).

And with that, the entire RTM team would like to wish everyone a happy and organized New Year :)