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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Easily processing your "Waiting For" list

Remember The Milk can be useful to manage tasks that you’ve delegated to others: aside from the sharing and sending features we offer, you can simply remind yourself which things you’re waiting on from others. This week’s tip, shared by jamesr404, explains how he does this and

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: DIY with Remember The Milk

Owning a home can imply a great deal of DIY (Do It Yourself) maintenance; we’ve discussed work in a new home previously, but they require more ongoing work too. This week’s tip, shared by dankjewelske, offers an idea for how to get a few things done at home

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting stuff done when money is tight

No matter what your economic situation, it can be helpful to keep an eye out for opportunities to save money – or at least to avoid spending it. This week’s tip, shared by daubs, describes a way to keep track of which tasks you can do without spending any money.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Working on and off your computer

Working at a computer is a frequent task for many of us; just ask Bob! If that sounds like you too, then you will appreciate this week’s tip, shared by ubuntudroid, which discusses a way to keep feeling productive when you need a computer break. As I’m currently

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Monk to Done, a GTD approach

One of our perennial posts on this blog has been “Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk”, a guest post by Doug Ireton, a fellow Remember The Milk user. This week’s tip, shared by waldir.leoncio, offers a simplified method for keeping track of your tasks in a similar way.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking your group-buy coupons

This week’s tip, shared by bigphinsphan, highlights a great way to use your task list to organize your group-buy coupons and their locations, details, and expiration dates: I’ve started tracking my discount coupons purchased through sites like Groupon, restaurant.com, Living Social, etc. I will create a location

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Living abroad and phoning home

In our increasingly global world, communication can be tricky; when you consider timezones halfway around the world, it can be downright difficult just to find time to get in touch. This week’s tip, shared by robyn.sukenik, discusses a few ideas about how to find the right window time

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Preparing for a garage sale

Holding a garage/yard sale can be a good way to sell things that you no longer want but that others may find useful; however, preparing for it can often be a big job. This week’s tip, shared by debuck3, offers a way to help make the preparatory work

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Cooling off before making big purchases

Many people set themselves their own rules for how and when to make big purchases, often including some time to decide on the purchase. In a different take on impulse shopping, this week’s tip (shared by tomrush) incorporates an additional component of “cooling off” before deciding to make any

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: #Chore for #Reward

If you find yourself hitting the postpone button too often on tasks you’re avoiding, this week’s tip from fabian.hemmert may be helpful: he describes how he rewards himself with more “fun” tasks only after completing some of his chores. For me, there are two basic kinds of

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making your boss happy

When working on teams, it can be helpful to separate your own tasks from those that require more teamwork; when working with your boss, this is even more important. This week’s tip, shared by dennis.tarwood, discusses a useful way to separate one’s own tasks from those that

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing college readings as a student with ADHD

Organizing oneself in college can be difficult, especially when one has ADHD. This week’s tip, shared by elisabethericson, discusses some specifics in setting up an entire semester of readings for the most effective day-to-day management. This isn’t revolutionary by any means, but as a college student with ADHD

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