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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping a gift list

It’s never too early to start thinking about the gift-giving season (it is November, after all!). This week’s tip comes courtesy of RTM user xaandria, who shares a great tip for keeping track of gifts you’re planning to make or buy: I’ve made a tab

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Updates

Goodbye, Beta

The particularly observant among you might have noticed something missing when you logged into Remember The Milk this morning; that’s right, the “Beta” in our logo is gone! When we launched Remember The Milk four years ago, we had this quaint idea that we’d leave beta once we

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Behind the Scenes

Join the team: Scala hacker

Did you fall in love with Scala at first sight? Do you dream of actors, DSLs, implicits and pattern matching? We have a full-time position available for a Scala Hacker (Server-side Engineer) at Remember The Milk. If this sounds like you, and you’d like to join us

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Saving time and frustration at the video store

This week’s winner, RTM user kristian.domagala, shared a helpful tip to prepare for video store visits: When going to the video store to hire out a DVD, I used to find it very frustrating to try to find something that I wanted to see. Either I didn’t

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Updates

iPhone app update: Now with Smart Add goodness

The latest version of the Remember The Milk app is now available on the App Store – w00t! The biggest addition in version 1.2.0 is support for Smart Add with a handy new ‘Add Task’ bar. Add tasks quickly (and with as many properties as you like!) by using

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Bring your tasks to the desktop with GeekTool

GeekTool is a handy utility for Mac OS X that allows you to embed all kinds of stuff (specifically files, images, or command output) on your Mac desktop. Seeking a way to show Remember The Milk tasks on the desktop, RTM user dws90 has written and shared a script for

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Going crazy with advanced searches

This week’s tip comes courtesy of RTM user wcitypoe, who has some fantastic examples of just how advanced you can get with the advanced search operators. While wcitypoe describes it as “how to be far too complex with RTM’s advanced search”, but I say there’s no such

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Behind the Scenes

Birthday #4

Four years ago yesterday, we breathed a sigh of relief: after more than a year of development, our super-secret project was finally ready to launch! Little did we know that the adventure of Remember The Milk was only just beginning… Five days after our launch, there was already a

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Create a Smart Add cheat sheet on your phone

Want to use Smart Add when emailing tasks to Remember The Milk, but having trouble remembering all the different properties you can include alongside your task name? Try this helpful tip from RTM user jwander14 (while jwander14 is using an iPhone, this general idea will work on many phones). I

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Updates

Mmm, Donut

Bob’s feeling slightly ill after consuming a few too many baked goods to celebrate the launch of Android 1.6 (aka “Donut”). Despite his sugar-induced stupor, Bob reminded me to let everyone know that Remember The Milk for Android is Donut-tested and ready (yay!). This might be

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Featured Apps

App for the milk brings your tasks to the desktop

Looking to get your Remember The Milk fix on your desktop? App for the milk is a handy new desktop client developed by Christoph Peter. The app allows you to manage your tasks in a stand-alone window, and works both online and offline (changes made when offline will be

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Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember the blog

Bloggers have a lot of regular tasks: from the obvious “write a new blog post” task, to researching topics, tweaking the design and features, and blog promotion. RTM user and blogger, soloviov, shared four great tips on using Remember The Milk to stay on top of these tasks and “make

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