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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Monitoring warranties with tasks' due dates

Product warranties are effective ways to make sure you can enjoy reliable products. If you do have a problem though, it’s good to watch the end dates of those warranties. This week, remigiusz.franek suggests making a list of your warranties and their end dates so you can take

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning dinner with Remember The Milk

After a long day of completing other tasks, deciding what to cook for dinner can be difficult. This week’s tip, shared by ann.kennis, suggests planning meals ahead so you don’t have to worry about it at mealtime! Coming up with something decent to cook for dinner during

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Behind the Scenes

Birthday #10

Whew! It’s incredibly hard to believe it’s been that long, but ten years ago today we launched our little app on the Interwebs. We’d like to say a huuuge thank you to everyone who’s supported us over the past ten years. Plus, an extra special thanks

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Updates

MilkSync now supports Microsoft Outlook 2016

Already upgraded to Office 2016? The latest version of MilkSync now supports Microsoft Outlook 2016 (yay!). Version 1.0.26 also supports new installations of MilkSync on Windows 10. Bob hopes you enjoy the syncing goodness!

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Memorizing passages with repeating tasks

Memorizing literary passages or quotations requires some regular work and repetition to get it into your short-term memory, then to move it to your long-term memory. This week’s tip, shared by darhull, exemplifies this process using Remember The Milk tasks and repeats. If you’re someone who

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Baking some task batches with a shell script

When you have a set of tasks you do frequently, it can be handy to have them ready to go each time. This week’s tip, shared by fabianhemmert, demonstrates this for business trips with a handy shell script that even generates the due dates. I often go on business

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making notes to self with repeating tasks

It can be helpful to make notes to yourself, but it’s also easy to set them aside. This week’s tip, shared by robfreundlich, shows how you can use due dates and repeats to keep your notes fresh on your mind. I have some things I need to remind

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remembering to comment on blogs

There are a variety of reasons why you may not comment on a blog right away, but you may want to later on. To help you remember to return to it, this week’s tip from thisjones suggests quickly adding a task that’ll take you right to the URL.

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