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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Pausing tasks using the updated date

When postponing a task isn’t quite what you want, what do you do? This week’s tip comes from fizzyice, who “pauses” tasks using the updated date and a tag. You can make the task disappear for a bit in their Smart List, and automatically return. To pause tasks

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Ending your repeating tasks

Repeats can be very handy for regular tasks, but some tasks don’t need to go on and on indefinitely. This week’s tip comes from vdichev, who points out some instances where you can use “until” or “for X times” in your repeats. (See more details on our repeat

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Parenting with Remember The Milk

Parenting can be especially overwhelming, but lillaurel knows how to calm our minds: with tasks, of course! Repeating tasks, short-term tasks, long-term tasks, and even developmental milestones—these suggestions will help you navigate your role as parent. My daughter is almost 1 now, and RTM has come in

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Updates

Web and desktop update: Bug squishing galore!

For this update, Bob’s been busy squishing a whole bunch of annoying bugs in the web and Mac desktop apps (there’s nothing Bob hates more than bugs). Here’s what’s new in this release: Version 1963 – August 1, 2016 * Fixed: Deleting a sorting configuration would sometimes case

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Sleeping on purchases before spending money

It can be all too easy to buy something when you decide you want it, but sometimes you find you don’t actually need it. This week’s tip, shared by hugo_homem, suggests sleeping on a purchase for a month—you’ll be reminded of it later and can

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Descriptive task names for encouraging motivation

When looking at your Remember The Milk tasks, it may take some thought to remember why you added something. This week’s tip comes from jhonnysabino, who realized that making a descriptive task name—one that answers “why” do the task—would help to complete it. “Clear hearts, full task

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Behind the Scenes

2016 Remember The Milk Retreat – Montreal

Our team at Remember The Milk is distributed around the world, with team members living on four different continents (with five different time zones!). We mostly communicate via Slack, and while we’re big Slack fans, once in a while it’s nice to get together in real life with

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Bob T. Monkey goes running

Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Quickly accessing planned exercise routes

When you’re ready to exercise it’s not always easy to recall the route you had planned. odlny suggests in this week’s tip to save the route in a task’s URL, and then you can pull it up from the task—or even from the reminder! I

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