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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Baking some task batches with a shell script

When you have a set of tasks you do frequently, it can be handy to have them ready to go each time. This week’s tip, shared by fabianhemmert, demonstrates this for business trips with a handy shell script that even generates the due dates. I often go on business

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making notes to self with repeating tasks

It can be helpful to make notes to yourself, but it’s also easy to set them aside. This week’s tip, shared by robfreundlich, shows how you can use due dates and repeats to keep your notes fresh on your mind. I have some things I need to remind

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remembering to comment on blogs

There are a variety of reasons why you may not comment on a blog right away, but you may want to later on. To help you remember to return to it, this week’s tip from thisjones suggests quickly adding a task that’ll take you right to the URL.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Killing zombies—zombie tasks, that is!

Particularly if you have an ultra-organized system for your tasks, you may miss a task a time or two. This week’s tip, shared by 7ohnf1ne, shows you how to find anything that slips through the cracks and file it away for later. “Zombie” tasks, for me, are tasks that

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Paying your bills with Remember The Milk

Keeping up with your bills can be a tedious affair every month, as Bob knows. This week’s tip, shared by robyn.sukenik, offers a simple setup with repeating tasks and notes that will help you always have the correct information to pay your bills quickly. I’ve used Remember

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping a list of birthdays

Social media does a good job reminding you of some people’s birthdays, but you may miss others. With this week’s tip, shared by radmoose, you’ll never forget another birthday, and you’ll even see them coming up so you can plan accordingly. Most people seem to rely

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Creating workflows in Remember The Milk

You’ve worked hard on a task and consider it “done” – but you’re still waiting on someone else to review your work. With this week’s tip, shared by alexander.waleczek, it’s tags and Smart Lists to the rescue! Read on to learn how you can create workflows

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Focusing with a Smart List

Working through a single list can be an efficient way to work through your day. This week’s tip, shared by tomi, pulls together a few different sets of tasks, including tasks added today, to see just what you need to. I hit a new record of #rtmstats (completed 3,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A work list that works hard for you

We love excellent uses of Smart Lists to show a specific set of tasks and to hide the rest. This week’s tip, shared by ashley.banks, shows a useful collection of immediate and upcoming tasks, includes those without due dates, and hides some repeating tasks you may not need

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Curating a personalized queue of videos

If you have some downtime and would love to catch up on some videos you’ve come across, try this week’s tip! jehnaz shares their method, using URLs and time estimates on the tasks to have a ready-to-go queue for as much time as you have. I discovered recently

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