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Bob T. Monkey with tags

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using tags to prioritize your tasks further

If three priority levels aren’t enough for you, you may want to add more. mtitos shares a tip this week suggesting to use number tags, 1–10, to create 10 priorities to keep your tasks and lists prioritized just as you want! For me, the three priority levels that

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Bob T. Monkey on a laptop

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using TextExpander to generate large sets of tasks

Some projects require a large set of tasks in sequence but specific to each project. Wouldn’t it be nice to quickly create a customized set of tasks for each project? This week, pszaro shares a tip using TextExpander to generate a custom sequence of tasks that can be emailed

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Bob T. Monkey with vitamins

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Forming habits with repeating tasks

Building habits involves a fair amount of repetition and motivation. This week, grant shares a tip of using repeating tasks in Remember The Milk alongside a daily task to build your desired habits and to keep them going. Recently I’ve been using Remember The Milk to build some habits

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Bob T. Monkey reading 'Getting Things Done'

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk to set up GTD

A perennial favorite has been a classic post about setting up GTD in Remember The Milk. After this year’s big update we thought it would be good to highlight a new method. jpuphill shares how you can use subtasks and start dates alongside other Remember The Milk features to,

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Bob T. Monkey with his passport

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping a travel list

Preparing for travel can be so stressful—"I’m sure I’m forgetting something!“ This week, deleigh shares a tip for keeping track of everything from beginning to end so as never to forget anything. You can even help your friends too! I have a list called Travel List:

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Magic wand illustration.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: See what's coming up on the next weekday

Sometimes it can be helpful to preview what’s coming up and mentally prepare for the tasks ahead. That’s where the “Tomorrow” view comes in, but what if you want to see what’s coming up on your next workday instead? This week, simon.miner shares a helpful tip

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Bob T. Monkey with a lot of Lego

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Skip tasks you’re waiting on to create Action Lists

When scanning your Smart Lists, it can sometimes be difficult to see what you can do if you’re waiting on something or someone to complete a task. This week’s tip, shared by stevenov, suggests tagging those tasks and excluding them, thus making a “no-filler” Action List. You can

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Bob T. Monkey on vacation at Disneyland

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keep track of what you plan to do on vacation

Preparing for a vacation or trip can mean a lot of tasks and a lot of thinking and planning. It’s easy to get caught up in all the details and forget some of the things you had thought to do. This week’s tip, shared by radmoose, suggests keeping

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Bob T. Monkey with Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Creating template lists by duplicating tasks

Some things that come up from time to time don’t quite warrant a task repeat, but you want to complete the same tasks each time. This week’s tip, shared by echarles, suggests keeping a master copy of those in a list, where you can duplicate all of the

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Bob T. Monkey with Super Mario

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making your tasks into a game

If you have a tough list of tasks to get through, or if you just want some extra fun in your day, this week’s tip is for you. Remember The Milk user erin_milk suggests playing with your tasks, using points and/or emojis to make completing your tasks

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