Tips & Tricks
When postponing a task isn’t quite what you want, what do you do? This week’s tip comes from fizzyice, who “pauses” tasks using the updated date and a tag. You can make the task disappear for a bit in their Smart List, and automatically return. To pause tasks
Tips & Tricks
Repeats can be very handy for regular tasks, but some tasks don’t need to go on and on indefinitely. This week’s tip comes from vdichev, who points out some instances where you can use “until” or “for X times” in your repeats. (See more details on our repeat
Tips & Tricks
Parenting can be especially overwhelming, but lillaurel knows how to calm our minds: with tasks, of course! Repeating tasks, short-term tasks, long-term tasks, and even developmental milestones—these suggestions will help you navigate your role as parent. My daughter is almost 1 now, and RTM has come in handy in
Tips & Tricks
It can be all too easy to buy something when you decide you want it, but sometimes you find you don’t actually need it. This week’s tip, shared by hugo_homem, suggests sleeping on a purchase for a month—you’ll be reminded of it later and can
Tips & Tricks
When looking at your Remember The Milk tasks, it may take some thought to remember why you added something. This week’s tip comes from jhonnysabino, who realized that making a descriptive task name—one that answers “why” do the task—would help to complete it. “Clear hearts, full task
Tips & Tricks
When you’re ready to exercise it’s not always easy to recall the route you had planned. odlny suggests in this week’s tip to save the route in a task’s URL, and then you can pull it up from the task—or even from the reminder! I
Tips & Tricks
It can be easy to overlook or to forget about cultural events happening in your area. This week’s tip comes from stellina.1, who suggests keeping an “Events” list that you can use to check for indoor and outdoor events, or events ending soon. I live in a small
Tips & Tricks
With Remember The Milk, Smart Lists are a powerful way to view only the tasks you want. This week’s tip, shared by richard.fox (with improvements suggested by wes.foster), is a series of Smart Lists set up to always show you just the tasks you can work on
Tips & Tricks
Some tasks are so periodic that a list can help you complete them whenever you have the time. This week’s tip comes from guybehindtheguy, who uses a list to help stay in touch with business contacts regularly. Each task repeats and the list is sorted by due date, so
Tips & Tricks
If you take different types of vacations, you’ll know that some preparation is common—don’t leave home without your toothbrush! But other things may not need to be done if you’re not camping, not driving, etc. This week’s tip is stonecritter’s simple method for planning
Tips & Tricks
Bob may lead a hectic life, but thanks to this week’s tip from Remember The Milk user rebjr, he’ll stay on top of his car maintenance and remember to get that fur trimmed! Here’s more from rebjr: I use Remember The Milk to keep track many of
Tips & Tricks
It’s great to have a complete grocery list but what if you forget about what you have in your refrigerator? This week’s tip, shared by thisjones, suggests keeping a list of your groceries so you make sure to eat everything before they expire. I have a bad habit