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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using tags for context

We’re big fans of tags around here for organizing our tasks across all our lists (and we have a few! :). This week’s featured tip comes from lnussdor, who shares some simple, no-fuss ideas for making the most of tags to stay streamlined and productive. I ascribe to the

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Adding tasks from PowerShell

Calling all systems admins and command-line lovers! This week’s tip, shared by selan, provides a quick way to add tasks while using Windows PowerShell. It can be handy when you want to add a server task, or anything else that comes to mind while you’re knee-deep in SQL

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Lightweight issue tracking

If you’ve ever worked on a software project, you’ll know that bugs and issues stack up faster than you can work on them. This week’s tip, shared by cadetblue, describes a way to use email, Smart Lists, and sharing to quickly put together an issue tracker. Issue

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Goin' home

If you live far from home, you can relate to needing to be very intentional about what special things you do when you make a trip there. This week bordaigorl describes how they organize these things before, during, and after a trip home. I live far from home for long

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Flash cards with Remember The Milk

People use Remember The Milk to keep track of all sorts of things, but this week odelaney shares a tip for a unique method to remember all sorts of specific details: flash cards! odelaney even has a video demonstration too, included below. (Is this the first tip with a corresponding

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using tags to organize groups of tasks

Tags are one of our favorite features for organizing tasks. This week’s tip, shared by reconfiguring, shows a few ways of using tags very effectively to organize groups of tasks – for specific meetings, but also as a means of categorizing tasks more generally too. As I have to manage

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of new music

If you try to keep up with new music, you know it can be a lot of work! Not to worry: in this week’s tip, tom.vanbaarle shares a thorough and simple method for keeping up with new recommendations, and for knowing what to buy. Besides using RTM for

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Asking yourself questions

Aside from more direct tasks, Remember The Milk can help you keep track of a variety of things. This week’s tip, shared by cole.jennette, demonstrates keeping track of questions you want to be on your mind… perhaps as a way of making a decision, something to check on,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Selling unwanted items online

Plenty of us have some things around the house that we could stand to get rid of. Armed with a camera and the internet, that’s very easy these days! In this week’s tip, yosri describes how they have started working through their pile of stuff by making a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Upcoming tasks, with a twist

Many are celebrating the new year this month. What better time to take a look at what’s coming up? This week, arwild01 shares a nice, simple way to see what’s coming up in the next week without getting distracted by unimportant things or forgetting about very important things.

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