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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Taking care of postponed tasks

We often hear from users that taking care of old tasks can really help to feel better about what’s left to do. After cleaning up tasks you added long ago, this week’s tip, shared by kateoneill, suggests also looking at cleaning up postponed tasks. My morning RTM routine

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of frozen food

In addition to using Remember The Milk to plan your week’s meals, you may find that it helps to keep track of what’s in your freezer. This week’s tip, shared by carolsher, describes how to make sure your freezer doesn’t get too full… so maybe you

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Cleaning out old tasks with a Smart List

If you’ve been using Remember The Milk for any length of time, you may have added some tasks that just didn’t get done. This week’s tip, shared by chris089, suggests looking through those tasks to get them done or just to cut them loose. #5 of the

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Planning your meals

Eating at home can be inexpensive, healthy, and certainly tasty. It does take a bit more work at times, at least if you eat more than Bob’s usual dinner. This week’s tip, shared by flewtist, discusses how you can keep up with your meal planning – and any prep

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking academic conferences and papers

For students on top of deadlines at school, if you’re attending conferences, you can have those deadlines to contend with also. This week’s tip, shared by seamus.bradley, offers an effective way to keep track of a conference’s details so you make sure to submit your papers

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Short-term crisis management

When something unexpected happens, it can be hard to pick up and move forward. Or, at least, there may be a lot to pick up. This week’s tip, shared by evanblackerby, discusses how he used Remember The Milk to navigate a tough situation he had never dealt with before.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of past and future gifts

As we’re approaching the holidays, you may be starting to organize your gift lists for others. This week’s tip, shared by miquelmartin, suggests a few ways to keep track of gifts you bought last year, to help organize your gifts this year, and to save a few ideas

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Multitasking while watching TV

Often in the evenings, you may want to relax in front of the TV or get some small things done. This week’s tip, shared by scave31, offers a way to have your cake and eat it too: get some things done while still enjoying some downtime. I’m new

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: My Tickler Setup

If you’re using Remember The Milk to set up a GTD system, you’ll know that it is important to keep track of upcoming tasks due on a particular date. Traditionally, you would keep these items in a set of folders—a “tickler” file. This week’s tip, shared

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk for GTD in a School Environment

Students know that organizing your assignments across classes can be a tedious affair, even with a syllabus in hand. This week’s tip, shared by astavrow, aims for a streamlined, organized setup to keep all assignments straight to make the most of your semester. There’s a great post on

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: See tasks due where you are

If you ever take out your phone to recall which errands you need to run, this week’s tip, shared by alasnik, is for you. In it, he discusses a way of using locations while mobile to zero in on what you have to do nearby. I’ve been enjoying

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