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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Recurring Projects and Smart Add

This week’s tip, shared by hogan82, covers using our email service plus Smart Add to quickly add a series of tasks related to a specific project. [Using Smart Add and email] I now create task lists for recurring projects (e.g., quarterly patch updates) in Microsoft Word that include

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of untagged tasks

It’s great to be organized—a list of tasks, all lined up and ready to be completed—but it helps to set up methods to help keep yourself organized too. This week’s tip, shared by sylviavas, features a great method for organizing those tasks that you add quickly:

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Half Marathon Training

If your exercise routine seems unmanageable, check out this week’s tip, shared by robyn.horn, on training for a half marathon: Recently, I felt pretty overwhelmed looking at my datebook, trying to keep all of my training and cross-training straight for an upcoming half marathon – so I simplified. I

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dieting with Remember The Milk

If you’re keeping up with some New Year’s resolutions in full swing, or just watching what you eat, this week’s tip shared by bonniefaust, offers a good way to keep tabs on what you’re eating: Like many people, my husband and I made a New Years

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of small reimbursements

If you have trouble remembering to whom you’ve lent money then this week’s tip, shared by chrisstreeter, shows you a way to keep track: Whenever someone owes me money (I buy movie tickets, concert tickets, pay a house bill), I create a new task with a 1 week

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Track your cash spending

Whether or not you use a financial tool to track your finances, this week’s tip—shared by nekodojo—will help you keep track of your cash; no more wondering where it’s gone. :) I use Quicken for tracking my finances. Luckily my bank has everything linked up electronically, but

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember your thank-yous

Got gifts? This week’s tip, shared by cainebryce, is for you! With all the giving that happens during the holidays, here’s a way that I’m starting to use in order to keep track of the people I want to send thank-you cards or emails to. Two of

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keep on top of your car's basic maintenance

If you own an automobile, you know how much periodic maintenance they require; it can be a lot to keep up with. This week’s tip, shared by pzbiegiel, helps to make keeping up with maintenance more manageable. Everyone knows that one way to maximize gas mileage on your vehicle

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Fast input for tasks using snippets

If you send a lot of tasks by email, this week’s tip, shared by jans.roeber, may interest you; it provides a quick way to supply a task’s properties to send via email. For the fast entry of task via email I’ve created a snippet called “rrtm”

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Track your Christmas shopping

This week’s timely tip, kindly shared by jessica.bierman, might help to make your Christmas shopping (and gift giving) just a little bit more sane: I use Remember The Milk to track my Christmas shopping. I have multiple family Christmas celebrations and so I use tags to sort out

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Never forget to watch a movie

If you’re having a hard time finding some weekend entertainment, why not watch a movie? This week’s tip, shared by jchirschy, offers a way to recall that one movie you really wanted to check out: Every time I go to rent a DVD, it is the same question:

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Clean up your credit history with Smart Add

This week, ryanburnett shares a tip about keeping track of your credit score by requesting a report from each credit agency once a year. Throughout our lives, whether it’s in college or afterwards, we’ve had several opportunities to get free *something* for signing up for a credit card.

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