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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: The Boss List

It can be hard to have the clearest perspective about what you did in the past year, so this week’s tip, shared by rossruns, describes a way to keep track of some big items for use in a performance review. Like many folks out there, I have an annual

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Zen to Done

We’ve covered some organizational methods in the past, namely Getting Things Done and Monk to Done. This week’s tip, shared by sssimon, demonstrates how to organize your tasks using a similar approach, Zen to Done, in Remember The Milk. The goal of this post is to show how

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Catching up on tasks using Smart Lists

Sometimes your tasks can get the better of you, and suddenly looking at your to do list feels overwhelming. However, this week’s tip, shared by bookworm, describes a way to break your list of tasks into smaller, more manageable lists. I keep separate lists for tasks relating to different

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk with Monday meetings

Remember The Milk can be useful for keeping track of what you have to do, as well as what you have already completed. This week’s tip, shared by taylor.andrew, discusses how you can use both in weekly meetings to keep things on track. At work, we recently introduced

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Running to-do lists

It can be difficult to manage “today’s” tasks when sometimes there’s too much to do on a given day. This week’s tip, shared by kylir, suggests using priorities instead of due dates for any tasks that don’t need to be done on a specific day. I’

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Wall of widgets

Remember The Milk for Android features home screen widgets for you to see what’s going on at a glance. This week’s tip, shared by joooc, shows how to see what’s going on at a glance… four ways over. I use RTM widgets on my Android phone to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Breaking down tasks in your job search

Unemployment can be overwhelming, but this week’s tip, shared by skylar.curtis, discusses a way to help break down things that you can do to help find a job. I graduated law school and took the bar exams about a month ago. This means that I’ve been unemployed

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dude, where's my car?

Frequent travelers among us will surely be familiar with this scenario: you’ve just returned from a long and/or great trip and are walking out of the airport when you realize you don’t quite remember where your car is; you’ve either misplaced the card or note or

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Checking out new songs

“What was the name of that song?” If you’ve ever been bothered by forgetting a song, you’ll appreciate this week’s tip, shared by vkhubani, which offers a simple way to keep track of what new songs you hear so you never forget again. When I’m in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Domain watching

If you own your own internet domain name, you’ll know that it can be hard to keep track of any renewal dates, often a year or more from when you register them. This week’s tip, shared by b3njamin, suggests using tasks to be reminded of expiring domains you

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Remember The Milk in a daily stand-up meeting

Using Remember The Milk to manage your tasks helps you keep track of what you have to do, and what you have recently completed. This week’s tip, shared by lasthunter, discusses how you can keep this info handy for daily use. Agile software development really goes along the GTD

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