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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keep calm and Remember The Milk

Keeping a list can be reassuring, but it can sometimes get ahead of you. This week fant shares three tips for preserving some sanity and calm as you juggle all the things! First Tip: The Sane Inbox Derived from the principle of “Do it Tomorrow” by Mark Forster, and my

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Bob T. Monkey brushes up on his GTD and kanban

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using GTD and kanban for a custom workflow

We are always interested in hearing about people’s setups for staying organized—there’s always quite a variety! This week’s tip from ioparaskev is an interesting workflow: it uses GTD and kanban principles to keep many things organized while also keeping a realistic perspective from week to week.

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Bob T. Monkey does some grocery shopping

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A grocery list that sorts automatically

When you’re shopping, making and ordering a list can be one of the most tedious parts. This week’s tip shares agentpenguin’s good idea: keeping your list ordered by the aisle or order automatically. I get tired of constantly re-entering different items into my RTM list “shopping,

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Bob T. Monkey organizes his projects

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organize your projects with a Smart List

Subtasks are handy for organizing sets of tasks, and many people use these for projects + project tasks. What about organizing those sets of tasks though? In a post about prioritizing tasks overall, jordy1971 shares a novel tip about making a Smart List for these groups of tasks. What a great

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Bob T. Monkey or Hypnotoad?

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Use descriptions to keep track of your tags

It’s easy to go all-in on tags and have a tag for everything you need to stay organized and, well, on task. To keep perspective on what’s what, olliebaum suggests descriptions to keep your tags organized. Not only can you have a task ready for describing your

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Bob T. Monkey celebrates our birthday with cake

Behind the Scenes

Birthday #12

It’s hard to believe that it’s been twelve years (a whole dozen!) since we launched Remember The Milk. It all began with two humans and one stuffed monkey in Sydney, Australia, and a crazy idea for an app… We’re still a pretty small team (there’s only

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Bob T. Monkey, purveyor of fine coffee

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keep your store with repeating tasks

Managing or operating a retail store or business involves lots of repeating work—daily, weekly, less often. asenchak describes their setup for keeping track of everything easily, and also mentions the added flexibility of assigning work for others based on the total time estimated. In operating a retail store or

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Sparkles illustration.

Updates

Introducing Remember The Milk for IFTTT

We’re big fans of IFTTT, an awesome service that makes it easy to connect the apps and services that you use every day (sometimes in creative and totally unexpected ways!). So, we’re super excited to announce that Remember The Milk for IFTTT is available today, exclusively for Pro

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Updates

The new and improved Remember The Milk for Siri

We’ve long had support for adding tasks via Siri (fun fact: Remember The Milk was the first non-Apple app to work with Siri!). We’re excited to be expanding this feature today, with updated support for Siri on iOS 11 and watchOS 4. In addition to adding tasks,

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Bob T. Monkey reviews his LinkedIn profile

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Networking made easy

Networking with contacts can be a hands-on affair, and can easily take a lot of time. However, with a few minutes it can be easily set up to be a simple matter with a series of small tasks, as demonstrated by dillo99 in this week’s tip. In my

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