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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Adding a bit of fun to your Eisenhower matrix

We recently shared an Eisenhower matrix that helps you organize your tasks by importance/urgency. This week’s tip, shared by fabian.kurmann, adds a fun twist: adding some, well, fun tasks into the mix so you enjoy being productive that much more. I think the Eisenhower method is pretty

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Following TV shows with repeating tasks

Now that Bob is done catching up on the rest of The IT Crowd, he’s been watching more current TV. This week’s tip, shared by derboti, is very handy for him and maybe for you too – derboti shows a simple way to keep track of when your favorite

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Focusing on time with Smart Lists

We’re always interested to see how users use Smart Lists to break up their tasks into manageable chunks. This week’s tip, shared by pescacebes, demonstrates four Smart Lists that use tasks’ priorities and due dates to keep track of tasks that matter today, this week, and what else

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing your time with an agenda

It’s not always easy to keep track of a day’s events alongside your task list – sometimes it can feel like doing one will be at the expense of the other. This week’s tip, shared by lebacon6, shows a simple strategy for making the most of busy days

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Putting projects on hold by archiving lists

If you keep track of projects or groups of tasks in lists, you’ll find that sometimes you end up with some extras you’ve put off or otherwise aren’t working on. This week’s tip, shared by jcfisher, suggests archiving those lists to keep your list of lists

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing your energy with tags

It’s not always appropriate to think of your tasks in terms of how much time they will take; many times it can be better to think of them in terms of how much energy they require. This week’s tip, shared by jacob.l, shows a simple way to

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An update on Heartbleed

As you’ll likely have heard, this week a new security vulnerability was announced in OpenSSL, a technology used to secure most of the traffic on the Internet. This vulnerability is known as Heartbleed. Like many web services, Remember The Milk uses OpenSSL to maintain the privacy of data sent

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: 8 glasses of water per day, 2 at a time

Drinking enough water is important for your health, but it’s difficult to keep track of and can be a bit daunting to think about over the course of a day. This week’s tip, shared by rtm_user_123, suggests breaking down this goal into smaller steps that help

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A Smart List to find next actions

It’s possible to use Smart Lists to be very organized and to help prioritize your tasks and your time. This week’s tip, shared by megan.strickland, takes it one step further: a Smart List that helps you sift through what you can work on next… with less effort.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting (and staying) limber

Stretching and light exercise is very beneficial, and certainly possible at a computer with a short break, but it’s easy to get focused and to forget to ever do it. This week’s tip, shared by milkiglo, removes that obstacle – and also suggests the possibility of taking your stretching

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A more encouraging 'Today' Smart List

Sometimes it can feel like you’ll never get through today’s tasks or, even worse, that you haven’t gotten anything done all day! To help with that, this week’s tip, shared by taylor.andrew, suggests a quick addition to your Smart Lists to keep your day in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A comfortable set of lists and Smart Lists

The “complete” methods we share for how fellow users organize their tasks and lists tend to be quite thorough. This week’s tip, shared by dbblues, is comparatively simple: he aimed for a simpler set of lists, Smart Lists, and tags to keep everything organized across his apps. Thought I’

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