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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Defining GTD contexts with what's available

David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) approach is a popular method for organizing your lists and tasks. This week’s tip, shared by kyle.faber, suggests a unique way to frame GTD contexts in Remember The Milk, as tools instead of locations. So using RTM to accomplish my personal

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Prioritizing schoolwork with a Smart List

Entering an entire syllabus worth of assignments into a “School” Remember The Milk list can be daunting to look over afterward. This week’s tip, shared by vergenzt, shows a Smart List that can show you just what’s coming up – just the due date and priority, and you’ll

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Practicing a new language with Remember The Milk

With our language support (thanks to our awesome translators!), Remember The Milk can be a neat way to test your foreign language skills: just change the language, test out the app, and change your setting back when you’re done. This week’s tip, shared by relevart, suggests something a

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Birthday #8

This weekend we celebrated Remember The Milk turning eight years old. Amazingly, Bob doesn’t look like he’s aged a bit since October 2005… We’d like to say a gigantic thank you to everyone who’s supported us over the past eight years, with an extra special thanks

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning your day with time estimates

Ever have a time when you take a look at your list for the day and realize you have way too much to do? This week’s tip, shared by susani, shows a handy Smart List that will let you know how much you have planned for the day to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Separating timed and untimed tasks with Smart Lists

Managing your tasks can be an all-day affair… particularly if you use your tasks to manage your day! :) This week’s tip, shared by robert.ward, offers a helpful process for managing some tasks at specific times and others more generally throughout the day. A lot of my daily

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Prioritize your e-books with Remember The Milk

With Remember The Milk you can make a list of anything, sort it, prioritize, and complete the tasks in it. This week’s tip comes from mathieu.hubeek, who shows off our recent Evernote integration to keep a running list of books to read. I just love my Sony e-

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Improving memory with repeating tasks

It is said that there are three things that will help you remember something: repetition, repetition, and repetition. :) This week’s tip, shared by donkiely, suggests simply using repeating tasks for retaining and memorizing something. There are a few pieces of crucial information that I always want to have fresh

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking gift cards with location alerts

It’s easy to tuck a gift card away, only to forget about it when you get to the store. Or you use part of one and have a balance left – but how much? This week’s tip, shared by libertyjohnson, suggests a nice way to keep track of your

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Leveling up with achievements

Achievements in games are like icing on the cake as you play and can often help keep you coming back. This week’s tip, shared by kittenrose, suggests a simple way to use them in everyday life, where they can be even more motivating! :) So I’m a bit of

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Join the Remember The Milk team: Technical User Support

Do you enjoy helping people? Are you an enthusiastic Remember The Milk user who’s familiar with all of its crazy features? Do you have the technical skills to investigate and resolve bug reports? We have a full-time, “work from anywhere” Technical User Support position available at Remember The

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Maintaining warranties on jewelry

Warranties are very helpful: if something breaks, you can fix it! Of course, if your warranty has a renewal/inspection period, there’s a lot of incentive to keep it up. This week’s tip, shared by thisjones, offers a simple way to use repeating tasks to make sure you

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