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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Reusable lists and archiving tags

‘Tis the season for lists… and since holiday lists come up year after year, we thought we’d share a timely tip shared by winterkitten. Of course, this tip can be used all year long; it’s the gift that keeps on giving! Last year I made up a list

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Preparing for a baby's arrival

Expecting a baby can bring a whole new set of challenges to the uninitiated – I guess that applies to all new parents! Rather than flounder over the unknown, Remember The Milk user robyn.sukenik did what many of us can relate to in times of great anxiety: she made a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of coupons

It can be easy to lose track of coupons – diligently filed away in an organizer, set on the table by the front door, or stuffed in a pocket, your bag, or your car. This week fanny.rutten shares a tip for using Remember The Milk to keep track of your

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organize your Christmas shopping

‘Tis the season! If you’re doing some Christmas shopping and are having some trouble keeping everything organized, this week’s tip may help. lessilly suggests keeping a master list and another for the current year; that way, you can keep track of everyone and easily add incidental gifts and

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Saving new music for later

As you may expect, the Remember The Milk team is quite keen on simple, automatic ways to add and to manage our tasks. This week’s tip, shared by arunaugustine is just one of those; you can use Remember The Milk to remember the… music! Do you hear some wonderful

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Job searching with Remember The Milk

Finding a new job can be difficult: lots of legwork, deadlines, and wading through search results. (“Which website did I find that on?”) Well, Remember The Milk is good at helping you make lists, and this week’s tip comes from tardis88 to help you prioritize a list of potential

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Staying motivated with completed tasks

It can be easy to look at a long list of tasks for the day and to get discouraged. However, to help watch as the proverbial scales tip in your favor, this week’s tip, shared by tvjames, recommends keeping an eye on how much you’ve already done today.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Nightly follow-up reminders

We’ve talked before about multitasking while relaxing, but perhaps you’ve found (like I have) that sometimes you need a more concrete reminder to get some things done before the day is over? This week’s tip, shared by mbmccormick, suggests using your daily reminder to let you know

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Sending email… in the future!

Sometimes you want to send out an email message, but you’re not ready yet. This week’s tip, shared by eric.kates, describes a quick way to get your message started so when you’re ready to send it, you’re already halfway there. Especially handy on the go!

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of dragons (yes, dragons!)

It seems like so many video games these days are tough to keep up with: they either have large enough worlds that it’s hard to remember everything, they require a lot of time (and in some cases specific times!), or all of the above. This week, janiceclee shares a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Reducing your overall number of tasks

You could argue that to-do lists are revolving by nature: as soon as you clear it, another day arrives and there’s more to do. Some days may feel like 2 steps forward and 3 steps back. This week’s tip, shared by byronsp, brings a different perspective into the

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking vehicle maintenance

Maintaining your vehicle can be a lot of work; you need to get the oil changed periodically, sure, but the tires need to be rotated, the wheels aligned, the fluids checked, and then the oil changed again. :) This week’s tip, shared by azclaire, suggests keeping track of this schedule

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