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Bob T. Monkey organizes some tags

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Some awesome ways to use tags for your tasks

Tags can be a flexible way to organize your tasks, so we’re always interested in how people are using them. This week’s tip, shared by karlicoss, highlights some useful ways of using tags to keep up with friends and family and for managing a variety of tags. 1.

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Bob T. Monkey studies different organization methods

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Structured sets of tasks for today and tomorrow

If you thrive on structure, this week’s tip would likely be interesting. dembo shares a means of structuring tasks via tags and an advanced sort to help plan your today (and tomorrow). I am trying to move away from a two-step process: 1. capture all tasks (RTM is great

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Bob T. Monkey works on his tasks on his laptop

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Categories of lists to organize everything

This week’s tip comes from mkpolkowski, who outlines a few types of lists and Smart Lists that come together as a comprehensive setup! Projects, general-purpose lists, and Smart Lists to help cover all sorts of scenarios—check out the tip for all the details. :) I have created my own

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Bob T. Monkey remembers the milk

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Smart Lists organize themselves for you

With just a bit of effort you can set up Smart Lists to organize themselves! dougbrown77 shares this tip for using keywords and dates to have everything in place… so you can get right to completing your tasks. Remember The Milk’s greatest strength is in automating the Getting Things

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Bob T. Monkey decides what to do today

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: What to do (and not to do) today?

Deciding what to do in a given day can be daunting, but just as important and perhaps easier is deciding what not to do. This week’s tip, shared by jlam, suggests using this as a framework for planning your day. I’ve often found myself looking at a list

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Bob T. Monkey consults a map to find nearby tasks

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Filtering nearby tasks with a Smart List

Smart Lists can be great to show you just the tasks you want at any given time. dominic.spachmann takes that on the road this week, sharing a Smart List to show a specific set of nearby tasks. I did not use the “nearby” function very much, since it shows

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Bob T. Monkey with a newborn

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Parenting with Remember The Milk

Parenting can feel like All The Things all at once, but nothing helps like a good list! theodor.schulte’s tip this week starts with a shared list and runs with it to manage all things baby. With a newborn child, your life is changing a lot. Nothing is like

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Bob T. Monkey with one of his favorite quotes

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Your own daily quotations

Quotations can be a source of wisdom, inspiration, motivation, and so on. Making them readily accessible makes them easier to enjoy. This week’s tip, shared by guillaume.babin, shares an easy way to start your own list of quotations. Each day I add a wisdom sentence as a task

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Bob's working on his water-drinking habit

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Forming routine habits with tasks and reminders

Repeating tasks can keep you productive day in and day out, but darhull’s tip takes things to another level this week—using repeating tasks, reminders, and estimates to build a habitual routine out of your tasks. I enjoyed Grant’s post here. I’ve also been using RTM for

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Bob T. Monkey works on Remember The Milk

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11 super useful tips to get more out of Remember The Milk

There’s a lot inside Remember The Milk. Bob’s been coding for more than a decade without so much of a hint of a complaint. (We think the supply of bananas has helped!) But with all those years of work on new features and tools, even Bob has almost

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Bob T. Monkey works on his laptop

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Automatic priorities with advanced sorting

Prioritizing your tasks can be an important step in feeling organized, but it can feel like it takes too much extra time. This week’s tip, shared by hiteshnh, suggests using the advanced sorting to prioritize your tasks automatically. Why settle for just priorities when you can do much more

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