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Updates

Android app update: Now Ice Cream Sandwich ready

Before Bob T. Monkey heads off for the holidays, we wanted to bring you version 2.0.7 of Remember The Milk for Android. This update includes a bunch of small enhancements and bug fixes, detailed below. Enhancements: * Update widgets for Ice Cream Sandwich (we prepared the app for ICS

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Short-term crisis management

When something unexpected happens, it can be hard to pick up and move forward. Or, at least, there may be a lot to pick up. This week’s tip, shared by evanblackerby, discusses how he used Remember The Milk to navigate a tough situation he had never dealt with before.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of past and future gifts

As we’re approaching the holidays, you may be starting to organize your gift lists for others. This week’s tip, shared by miquelmartin, suggests a few ways to keep track of gifts you bought last year, to help organize your gifts this year, and to save a few ideas

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Multitasking while watching TV

Often in the evenings, you may want to relax in front of the TV or get some small things done. This week’s tip, shared by scave31, offers a way to have your cake and eat it too: get some things done while still enjoying some downtime. I’m new

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: My Tickler Setup

If you’re using Remember The Milk to set up a GTD system, you’ll know that it is important to keep track of upcoming tasks due on a particular date. Traditionally, you would keep these items in a set of folders—a “tickler” file. This week’s tip, shared

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Updates

Android app bug squishing update, the sequel

Bob T. Monkey brings us another bug squishing release, following our big Remember The Milk for Android update. Version 2.0.5 includes: Enhancements: * Improve updates to lists/widgets using locatedWithin search criteria. Bug fixes: * Fix display of “every last [DAY] of the month” repeat intervals. * Fix issue with parsing

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk for GTD in a School Environment

Students know that organizing your assignments across classes can be a tedious affair, even with a syllabus in hand. This week’s tip, shared by astavrow, aims for a streamlined, organized setup to keep all assignments straight to make the most of your semester. There’s a great post on

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: See tasks due where you are

If you ever take out your phone to recall which errands you need to run, this week’s tip, shared by alasnik, is for you. In it, he discusses a way of using locations while mobile to zero in on what you have to do nearby. I’ve been enjoying

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Behind the Scenes

Join the Remember The Milk team: JavaScript Ninja

Do you dream of a world where the browser reigns supreme, and all applications are a beautifully constructed and obsessively optimized mish-mash of cleanly namespaced JavaScript, crafty HTML and minimalist CSS? Do you wake up screaming “OH NO! NOT ANOTHER [favourite quirky browser here] BUG!” as cross-browser development

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Updates

Android app bug squishing update, part II

Bob T. Monkey’s been busy with another bug squishing release, following our big Remember The Milk for Android update. Version 2.0.2 includes: Enhancements: * Initial sync now uses 50% less memory. * Updates to localizations for Chinese (Simplified), Danish, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese (Brazil). Bug fixes: * Fix issue

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: The Boss List

It can be hard to have the clearest perspective about what you did in the past year, so this week’s tip, shared by rossruns, describes a way to keep track of some big items for use in a performance review. Like many folks out there, I have an annual

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