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Organizing your lists is an important step to keep your information ready when you want it. This week’s tip comes from gustavo.marins, who shares a simple way to keep a group of checklists within reach for reference. I use Remember The Milk together with Evernote to manage various
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From day to day, it can be difficult to decide which tasks to work on, especially if your day can change! This week’s tip comes from jansona, who suggests a simple system to be able to “bubble up” tasks or to—shall we say—"float them away"
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Gift time around birthdays and holidays can be really tricky: “Wait, what do they want?” or “Wait, what do I want?” This week’s tip from adamrakich is beautiful in its simplicity: keep track of gifts for the right occasion, whether you’re shopping for someone else or someone else
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Finding your older tasks can be very helpful: “Oh, that’s easy to do now!” or “I can check this off because I did something different since then.” mjbenoit asked a specific question about this: How do I find tasks that haven’t been updated, and may need to be
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Managing projects usually means a lot of tasks, so any way to make keeping track of them smoother is very helpful. Cue this week’s tip from drfrankbuck that starts with a simple premise: a project is just a task with subtasks. Then, with one Smart List, each of your
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Staring down a long list in a given day can feel intimidating, even if it’s a reasonable number of tasks. In this week’s tip, fant suggests an easy way to pace yourself: show tasks only as their due time approaches. That way you can focus on just the
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The best to-do list is the one you can take with you… and sometimes that means “data portability”. While a full account backup is available in JSON format, a lightweight CSV can be an appealing option at other times. “Why not both?” This week’s tip features a MilkScript that
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Wanting revenge is a common feeling, but acting on it is (just maybe) not always for the best. This week’s tip comes from countdiso, who plots a course for all of us through common scenarios of revenge. The key is… waiting! Delay your response and you may find you
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For a certain kind of task, you may add it and imagine that you’ll remember later what “Download PDF from website” means. But you may return to it and think, “Well where was I supposed to click? I don’t see it now.” For this kind of task, pelowski
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Keeping in touch with people takes a bit of effort, conscious or not. Here's a quick tip from patch to use tags and repeating tasks to stay in regular touch with friends and family, and to keep notes so you remember what you want to talk about. Let’
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Juggling the email and tasks all week can be a lot. Anything to make that easier is a big help! This week’s tip comes from dougbrown77, who shares a quick way to add a follow-up task when you are using email. A quick forward, a quick tag, and you