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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping your cosmetics fresh

Bob T. Monkey knows the importance of making sure cosmetics aren’t outdated (it takes a lot of makeup to keep him looking this good!). In this week’s tip, amberiam describes how you can keep track of your cosmetics with Remember The Milk. There’s almost nothing more disgusting

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Self-improvement with Remember The Milk

We’ve talked before about cultivating good habits – once about a general method to develop a habit, and another time specific to reading more. If there’s one thing that’s key, it’s repetition. For more general reflection and self-improvement, a lot of repeating tasks may not be as

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember to read Tips & Tricks Tuesday

You can’t get much more meta than this week’s simple tip, shared by davidscottweaver: Even though I follow RTM on Facebook and Google+, I sometimes forget to read the week’s winner of Tips & Tricks Tuesday. So I created a task for just that with the URL

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Creating a habit of reading

It’s said that it takes a month to create a habit. If you’ve gotten out of the habit of reading but want to get back into it, this week’s tip, shared by chandra.gaajula, should help: a quick task will encourage you to keep up with your

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organizing chores with Remember The Milk

Keeping house can be a daunting task – or set of tasks! This week’s tip, shared by lostintranslatn, describes a way to break down your household chores into manageable chunks, and also offers an easy way to make sure everything’s in order when you have guests! I use RTM

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Superlist!

While it’s nice to have your tasks all in their own lists, it can sometimes make things hard to scan. It’s also possible to get overwhelmed looking at your lists if they have a lot of tasks that aren’t due for quite a while. Superlist to the

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping your home address current

Anyone who’s moved frequently and/or recently will understand how tedious it can be to remember to update your address everywhere. This week’s tip, shared by joshmock, suggests keeping a list of tasks tucked away so you can make sure your bills (and your movie deliveries!) arrive at

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Agile software development with tags

There’s practically a zillion different ways you can use Remember The Milk (admittedly we haven’t counted, but we’re pretty sure it’s close to a zillion). This week’s tip is shared by marco.vermeulen, who’s come up with an interesting way to use tags for

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Replacing old batteries

There’s nothing worse than having a leaky battery ruin a toy or gadget, and anyone with a lot of batteries around – technophiles, parents, technophile parents? – will understand that it’s easy for some to get neglected. This week’s tip, shared by chris.daida, reminds you to check your

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Packing for trips by tagging tasks

We’ve discussed the benefit of having a travel checklist previously. This week’s tip, shared by tanis.7x, is similar but comes with a twist – using tags to plan your next trip after a previous trip. If you have a few types of trips planned in the upcoming year

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Should, Could, and Would lists

This week’s tip comes from thorstenvpk, who suggests simplifying to a few lists. Without further ado: I am overwhelmed with tagging, contexting and all that prioritization stuff. Only 4 lists are in my RTM setup: The main list: collecting all the stuff. These 3: ‘Should’, 'Could’, and '

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