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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking your group-buy coupons

This week’s tip, shared by bigphinsphan, highlights a great way to use your task list to organize your group-buy coupons and their locations, details, and expiration dates: I’ve started tracking my discount coupons purchased through sites like Groupon, restaurant.com, Living Social, etc. I will create a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Living abroad and phoning home

In our increasingly global world, communication can be tricky; when you consider timezones halfway around the world, it can be downright difficult just to find time to get in touch. This week’s tip, shared by robyn.sukenik, discusses a few ideas about how to find the right window time

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Preparing for a garage sale

Holding a garage/yard sale can be a good way to sell things that you no longer want but that others may find useful; however, preparing for it can often be a big job. This week’s tip, shared by debuck3, offers a way to help make the preparatory work

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Cooling off before making big purchases

Many people set themselves their own rules for how and when to make big purchases, often including some time to decide on the purchase. In a different take on impulse shopping, this week’s tip (shared by tomrush) incorporates an additional component of “cooling off” before deciding to make any

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: #Chore for #Reward

If you find yourself hitting the postpone button too often on tasks you’re avoiding, this week’s tip from fabian.hemmert may be helpful: he describes how he rewards himself with more “fun” tasks only after completing some of his chores. For me, there are two basic kinds of

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making your boss happy

When working on teams, it can be helpful to separate your own tasks from those that require more teamwork; when working with your boss, this is even more important. This week’s tip, shared by dennis.tarwood, discusses a useful way to separate one’s own tasks from those that

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing college readings as a student with ADHD

Organizing oneself in college can be difficult, especially when one has ADHD. This week’s tip, shared by elisabethericson, discusses some specifics in setting up an entire semester of readings for the most effective day-to-day management. This isn’t revolutionary by any means, but as a college student

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Help us decide! Vote on ideas for Remember The Milk

We love getting feedback here at Remember The Milk, and it seems like you guys love sending it too – there’s been 24,150 posts in our Ideas forum since we launched. :) With that much feedback, we can’t implement every idea (no matter how many bananas we feed Bob

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting to 100 push-ups

If you have a hard time remembering to exercise or tracking your routines, this week’s tip, shared by danigiri, may help; Dani discusses using Remember The Milk to work up to 100 push-ups. Recently I stumbled onto this book ‘7 weeks to 100 push-ups’ that details a

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Introducing Remember The Milk for iPad

We’re huge iPad fans here at Remember The Milk (our moms are, too!) and consider it to be a revolutionary (and magical :) new device. So when Apple announced that developers could start building apps for the iPad, our resident mobile app guru was on the case. That was just

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Serendipitous tasks

Who says you can’t plan serendipity? This week’s tip, shared by thorstenvpk, describes a nice idea for scheduling surprise tasks: For some days of the month, not every day, but likely often, I set a task for me or my friends to be surprised. For myself that could

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