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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using a Smart List for a Landing Pad

It’s possible to have so many tasks that new ones can get lost. If your Inbox isn’t working out for you, this week’s tip may help: idickinson suggests a way to add tasks quickly, including on the go, while maintaining the rest of their system. I’m

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Automatic quadrants using priorities and due dates

We recently covered an Eisenhower matrix to separate important and urgent tasks. We thought we’d, well, square things off with another take on quadrants. This week’s tip, shared by cek1227, suggests 5 quadrants – yes, 5! – to prioritize your tasks. The Four Quadrants from Covey are very helpful, but

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using 'kill' dates with Smart Lists

Due dates seem like a pretty straightforward property, but it’s always interesting to see some different uses for them. This week, cadetblue shares a tip for using dates as a “kill” switch – complete the task or get rid of it! Often I use RTM not only to record activities

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Smart Lists to break down long lists

Long lists can seem inevitable when organizing or planning things thoroughly, and they can be a bit overwhelming to look at entirely. This week’s tip, shared by lars_m, describes a few Smart Lists to help break down a long list into some more manageable pieces. As a PhD-

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning a week at a time

It’s easy to get into a routine of postponing too many tasks too often. This week’s tip, shared by marthe.marthe, suggests a straightforward method for keeping track of just the current week, making your lists and projects more manageable. I have tried many things to get my

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: An Eisenhower Matrix using Smart Lists

An Eisenhower matrix can be a useful way to separate and to prioritize important tasks versus urgent ones. This week’s tip, shared by mehardin, suggests an automatic setup of these four quadrants using Smart Lists. It’s difficult when planning our day and our actions to lose sight between

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of important questions

Whether it’s your boss, family, friends, or someone else, it’s easy to think of something you want to ask someone… but not have the opportunity to ask it right away. This week’s tip, shared by visruts, offers an easy way to keep track of these questions until

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remembering to show gratitude

Some tasks can be necessary to get things done, while others are the type that simply make your day better. This week’s tip, shared by kateoneill, suggests passing on a bit of joy by being mindful of one’s gratitude for others! I keep meaning to write more thank

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning a holiday party

The holidays can be rather hectic times, particularly surrounding parties – for all their fun, they often require a lot of planning! This week’s tip, shared by vkhubani, shows a few ways to help navigate the planning process to make them less hectic and more fun! I am planning a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Simple GTD using Remember The Milk

We’ve featured a few different GTD setups in the past but, perhaps as a testament to the flexibility of Remember The Milk, there are a variety of useful ways to set things up. This week’s tip, shared by mattssoncarl, outlines a straightforward setup for projects and other tasks.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping an eye on old tasks with a Smart List

It can be difficult to think about older tasks that you may not have gotten to in a while. This week’s tip, shared by alexriabtsev, suggests a way of honing in on the most important tasks you may have forgotten about so they don’t get left behind! How

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Budget tracking with Remember The Milk

Keeping up with your bills each month is no small feat, especially considering the typical choices seem to be paying the basic ones automatically or keeping a stack of paper bills that arrive in the mail. This week’s tip, shared by hwebbjr, offers an easy method for tracking your

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