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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remembering to show gratitude

Some tasks can be necessary to get things done, while others are the type that simply make your day better. This week’s tip, shared by kateoneill, suggests passing on a bit of joy by being mindful of one’s gratitude for others! I keep meaning to write more thank

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning a holiday party

The holidays can be rather hectic times, particularly surrounding parties – for all their fun, they often require a lot of planning! This week’s tip, shared by vkhubani, shows a few ways to help navigate the planning process to make them less hectic and more fun! I am planning a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Simple GTD using Remember The Milk

We’ve featured a few different GTD setups in the past but, perhaps as a testament to the flexibility of Remember The Milk, there are a variety of useful ways to set things up. This week’s tip, shared by mattssoncarl, outlines a straightforward setup for projects and other tasks.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping an eye on old tasks with a Smart List

It can be difficult to think about older tasks that you may not have gotten to in a while. This week’s tip, shared by alexriabtsev, suggests a way of honing in on the most important tasks you may have forgotten about so they don’t get left behind! How

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Budget tracking with Remember The Milk

Keeping up with your bills each month is no small feat, especially considering the typical choices seem to be paying the basic ones automatically or keeping a stack of paper bills that arrive in the mail. This week’s tip, shared by hwebbjr, offers an easy method for tracking your

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Defining GTD contexts with what's available

David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) approach is a popular method for organizing your lists and tasks. This week’s tip, shared by kyle.faber, suggests a unique way to frame GTD contexts in Remember The Milk, as tools instead of locations. So using RTM to accomplish my personal

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Prioritizing schoolwork with a Smart List

Entering an entire syllabus worth of assignments into a “School” Remember The Milk list can be daunting to look over afterward. This week’s tip, shared by vergenzt, shows a Smart List that can show you just what’s coming up – just the due date and priority, and you’ll

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Practicing a new language with Remember The Milk

With our language support (thanks to our awesome translators!), Remember The Milk can be a neat way to test your foreign language skills: just change the language, test out the app, and change your setting back when you’re done. This week’s tip, shared by relevart, suggests something a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning your day with time estimates

Ever have a time when you take a look at your list for the day and realize you have way too much to do? This week’s tip, shared by susani, shows a handy Smart List that will let you know how much you have planned for the day to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Separating timed and untimed tasks with Smart Lists

Managing your tasks can be an all-day affair… particularly if you use your tasks to manage your day! :) This week’s tip, shared by robert.ward, offers a helpful process for managing some tasks at specific times and others more generally throughout the day. A lot of my daily repeating

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Prioritize your e-books with Remember The Milk

With Remember The Milk you can make a list of anything, sort it, prioritize, and complete the tasks in it. This week’s tip comes from mathieu.hubeek, who shows off our recent Evernote integration to keep a running list of books to read. I just love my Sony e-reader

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Improving memory with repeating tasks

It is said that there are three things that will help you remember something: repetition, repetition, and repetition. :) This week’s tip, shared by donkiely, suggests simply using repeating tasks for retaining and memorizing something. There are a few pieces of crucial information that I always want to have fresh

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