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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dude, where's my car?

Frequent travelers among us will surely be familiar with this scenario: you’ve just returned from a long and/or great trip and are walking out of the airport when you realize you don’t quite remember where your car is; you’ve either misplaced the card or note or

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Checking out new songs

“What was the name of that song?” If you’ve ever been bothered by forgetting a song, you’ll appreciate this week’s tip, shared by vkhubani, which offers a simple way to keep track of what new songs you hear so you never forget again. When I’m in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Domain watching

If you own your own internet domain name, you’ll know that it can be hard to keep track of any renewal dates, often a year or more from when you register them. This week’s tip, shared by b3njamin, suggests using tasks to be reminded of expiring domains you

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk in a daily stand-up meeting

Using Remember The Milk to manage your tasks helps you keep track of what you have to do, and what you have recently completed. This week’s tip, shared by lasthunter, discusses how you can keep this info handy for daily use. Agile software development really goes along the GTD

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Easily processing your "Waiting For" list

Remember The Milk can be useful to manage tasks that you’ve delegated to others: aside from the sharing and sending features we offer, you can simply remind yourself which things you’re waiting on from others. This week’s tip, shared by jamesr404, explains how he does this and

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Remember The Milk for iPhone and iPad: now with push syncing

Hot on the heels of the shiny new real time updating for the Remember The Milk web app, we’re excited to announce that our iOS apps now support push syncing (no app update required). This means that any changes made to your account will automatically be pushed out to

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Real time updating comes to the Remember The Milk web app

Users of our Android app have enjoyed real time push syncing for a while now. We’ve always wanted to add this real time updating awesomeness to the web app, and with the help of Scala, Akka, Netty and Unfiltered, we’re excited to announce that real time updates are

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: DIY with Remember The Milk

Owning a home can imply a great deal of DIY (Do It Yourself) maintenance; we’ve discussed work in a new home previously, but they require more ongoing work too. This week’s tip, shared by dankjewelske, offers an idea for how to get a few things done at home

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting stuff done when money is tight

No matter what your economic situation, it can be helpful to keep an eye out for opportunities to save money – or at least to avoid spending it. This week’s tip, shared by daubs, describes a way to keep track of which tasks you can do without spending any money.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Working on and off your computer

Working at a computer is a frequent task for many of us; just ask Bob! If that sounds like you too, then you will appreciate this week’s tip, shared by ubuntudroid, which discusses a way to keep feeling productive when you need a computer break. As I’m currently

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Monk to Done, a GTD approach

One of our perennial posts on this blog has been “Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk”, a guest post by Doug Ireton, a fellow Remember The Milk user. This week’s tip, shared by waldir.leoncio, offers a simplified method for keeping track of your tasks in a similar way.

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An update on offline access without Gears

We’re big fans of offline web apps at Remember The Milk; when Google Gears was released in 2007, we spent a  caffeine-fuelled weekend coding insanely to make Remember The Milk the first web app after Google Reader to work offline with Gears. As many of you know, Google

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