It can be really handy to plan your day with time estimates – “how much work did I plan for myself today?” or “how many things can I get done on my errands?” – but this only helps if you have time estimates on your tasks, of course!
This week’s tip,
I think many of us can relate to having long lists of tasks – various projects, “anytime” tasks, and things we want to get to eventually. :) This week’s tip, shared by pauldb, suggests a quick way to focus only on what you can do now, or at least have chosen
Despite our best intentions, it’s easy to say something is due at a specific time but then not get to it right away. This week’s tip, shared by hiteshnh, is for those of us who rely on our reminders, but might miss them at the time.
Since I
If you do any commuting for school or work, it can be easy to forget something to bring for the day. This week, racheocity suggests a simple Smart List to help make sure you don’t leave anything important at home.
I go to college, and live off-campus. I usually
We’ve highlighted a variety of different Smart Lists and methods over the years, but we’re always impressed to see how many new ideas are out there! This week’s tip, shared by jlottosen, is a simple, complete way to organize all your tasks into three main lists.
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It can be all too easy to get in the routine of “selecting all overdue tasks, postponing them” and then “selecting all tasks due today, postponing them too”, hoping you’ll get to them tomorrow.
This week’s tip, shared by rksnh6, suggests a better way: categorizing tasks with due
In perhaps our tastiest tip yet, this week Remember The Milk user radmoose shares how they make sure not to miss out on a good deal on tacos. :)
The fish taco place near me (well, around the US) has a deal every Tuesday after 2:30pm. $1.50 Fish Tacos!
Many tips we feature are bite-sized or address one particular Remember The Milk feature or help solve one particular organizational problem. This week’s tip, shared by martingchapman, breaks the mold though, by including a variety of approaches and Remember The Milk features for a comprehensive system that covers, by
It’s easy to set due dates on tasks that don’t have firm dates, and then end up postponing them a lot if you don’t get to them right away. In this week’s tip, kokuran shares an easier way to manage these kinds of tasks.
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There are a bunch of reasons you might wish to increase your credit limit – it may help your credit score, make more available to you in case of an emergency, or even give you better status with your bank/lender. This week’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday winning tip, shared
While we’ve covered both Getting Things Done and Zen To Done on the blog before, we think there’s room for other approaches to organizing your tasks.
Today we look at Remember The Milk user szemyed’s approach. As he mentions in his forum post, he likes GTD and
Customer relationship management, or CRM, can be a complex affair, covering a lot of different aspects of a business. This week’s tip, shared by sunjana1, describes a simple – yet thorough! – setup for CRM that requires little maintenance to keep up with, allowing more time to get back to getting
