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Behind the Scenes

Why a monkey and not a cow?

We were recently asked an excellent question on the forums: why do we have a stuffed monkey for our mascot, and not a cow? We didn’t really have a great answer for that, but the very next day we walked into the post office and were confronted by a

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Buzz

Taking web applications offline with Google Gears

A little while ago, the good folks at Google Code asked us if we were willing to share our experiences with using Google Gears to add offline functionality to RTM. As we’re big fans of Google APIs (we do use a fair few of them) and I’m an

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Updates

Scheduled maintenance

Firstly, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to those who have already upgraded to a Pro account. We really appreciate your support! Secondly, it’s hardware upgrade time :) Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, starting at 7pm Sydney time (view in your timezone)

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Updates

Introducing Remember The Milk Pro

How it all began… Three years ago this month, two desperately disorganized people (that’s us) were fed up with constantly forgetting things (yes, including the milk). Inspired by the awesomeness of Gmail, which had launched earlier that year, we decided to build a web application that would (hopefully!) help

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Updates

Sorted

It’s been a much requested feature for a while now, so we’re excited to finally bring sorting to RTM. You can sort your lists and Smart Lists by priority, due date, or task name – just click the sorting button on the top right of the list (sorry, it

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Featured Apps

More cool ways to use Remember The Milk

Mind Like A Sieve Yahoo! Widget Graeme McCormack has developed the awesomely named Mind Like A Sieve Yahoo! widget for RTM. This handy widget lets you can complete or postpone tasks, or open them on the RTM website, just by right-clicking on the task name. The widget’s flexible

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Updates

Twitter talk

It’s been very cool to watch rtm’s ever-growing list of Twitter friends since we launched Remember The Milk for Twitter this week. We were excited to see that people have already come up with some really creative ways to interact with RTM on Twitter, and just wanted

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Updates

Back in a bit...

The site is temporarily unavailable due to some hardware issues (it looks like the new hardware we installed over the weekend might be playing up). We’re working to get everything back up and running again as quickly as possible. More updates to come – thanks for your patience. Update 5:

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Updates

Twitter your tasks

We’re big fans of Twitter, an awesome service which poses the simple question, “What are you doing?”, and lets you post your activities and thoughts (so long as they’re 140 characters or less). You can send updates to Twitter via SMS, IM, the website, and third-party applications,

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Updates

Scheduled maintenance

Remember The Milk will be down for scheduled maintenance tomorrow, starting at 2pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). The site will be down for up to an hour. We’ll do our best to complete this maintenance as quickly as possible, and we’ll post again here once we’

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Updates

Speak Japanese?

Last month we launched the official Remember The Milk Japan Blog at blog.rememberthemilk.jp We want to thank blogger Hiroshi Miyazaki, who’s been doing an awesome job covering RTM news and providing valuable tips on using Google Gears for offline access, using the mobile version, and sending tasks

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Buzz

Remember The Milk in PC World

The Second Golden Age of Software: Oh, and consider this: The RTM team consists of two people (and, the service’s site says, one stuffed monkey). I don’t know how many programmers Microsoft has working on Outlook, but it’s a heck of a lot more than that. And

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