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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting to 100 push-ups

If you have a hard time remembering to exercise or tracking your routines, this week’s tip, shared by danigiri, may help; Dani discusses using Remember The Milk to work up to 100 push-ups. Recently I stumbled onto this book ‘7 weeks to 100 push-ups’ that details a routine to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Serendipitous tasks

Who says you can’t plan serendipity? This week’s tip, shared by thorstenvpk, describes a nice idea for scheduling surprise tasks: For some days of the month, not every day, but likely often, I set a task for me or my friends to be surprised. For myself that could

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Zen priorities

Spending a little too much time prioritizing, and not enough doing? This week’s tip, shared by kkingman, shows a different way to use priorities to highlight just the tasks you need to focus on each day: Adding a priority when I added a task always seemed so arbitrary. All

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Winning contests

Many people use Remember The Milk to keep track of all sorts of tasks—work, home; urgent, important; etc. This week’s tip, shared by radmoose, describes a way to keep track of contests you’d like to enter. While I live an active life with a constantly changing list,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking conference deadlines

Many students and professionals attend regular conferences throughout the year. This week’s tip, shared by nickelsen, describes one way to keep track of upcoming conferences and their deadlines. Research assistants and PhD students within the same research area often attend the same scientific conferences. Until now, each researcher managed

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Magician's Choice

This week’s tip, shared by biokinton, discusses how a magician can use Remember The Milk to manage their tricks. Like many of the tips we share here, it’s interesting to think how it could be applied to other things as well. So, not only is RTM infinitely useful

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Creating "bucket lists" for better living

If you use Remember The Milk to keep track of everything, you may want to create a Smart List for those less urgent tasks that would be satisfying to complete. This week’s tip, shared by lon247, highlights a way to create so-called bucket lists: There are things that I’

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Get a refund on price drops

This week’s tip, shared by mmorowitz, features a novel way to use Remember The Milk to help save money after a large purchase: I recently purchased a new dishwasher from a local retailer. I asked if they had a price-drop guarantee. They, like many retailers, will guarantee you the

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Getting movie recommendations from friends

If you forget which movies your friends suggest, this week’s tip, shared by gordonswaby, offers a solution for how they can get a recommendation to you that you’ll actually watch later. :) I’m really picky about the movies I watch and I’m highly annoyed when I watch

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Developing a good habit

In this week’s tip, bazman90 recounts how he used a series of tasks to help him drink more water: I had a health check in work recently and was told I was only just hydrated enough, so I thought what would help me remember to drink water regularly through

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