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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Today's quick tasks

If you find yourself getting overwhelmed with a long list of tasks, or simply are looking for some quick things to get done, wheretheskygrows’ tip is one you should check out: Having so many things to do, sometimes it’s so easy to get overwhelmed even when you’re organized

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Filtering telephone calls

Many users describe trying to limit themselves to seeing the tasks that they can work on at present; this week’s tip, shared by davidscottweaver, makes excellent use of Smart Lists to only see as many phone calls as are important to be made where he is. I use a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Two-week Smart List

Ever feel overwhelmed by looking at all your tasks? This week’s tip, shared by patrick.conwell, lets you peek at your upcoming tasks without being inundated with all of them. I use RTM for everything I can think of. Some of the task have no due date, many do…

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking gift cards

If you have a birthday or other holiday coming up, it may be a good time to check out this week’s tip, shared by stesch, about keeping track of gift cards: I received a number of gift cards over the holidays for everything from movie theaters to Macy’s

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: How does your garden grow?

How does your garden grow? For dorcas, who shared this week’s tip, the answer is, “With RTM, a PC and pretty tasks all in a row.” Gardening can be great: looking at pretty things, eating tasty fresh things that you have conjured out of the soil, gentle exercise, something

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Avoiding impulse shopping

This week’s tip, shared by miquelmartin, offers a way to keep yourself from buying something as soon as you see it: Whenever I get all enthusiastic about buying something, I find it helps to keep my fingers off it, and make a task such as “Consider buying this” due

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Dinner planning with Remember The Milk

We hear about a lot of different things that Remember The Milk users keep track of with their tasks. This week’s tip, shared by erlang, shows how you can use your tasks to manage your family’s meals: First, me and my wife have a shared list in Remember

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Efficient errands with tagging and Smart Lists

This week’s tip, shared by dina.demaio, will help any frequent shoppers make the most of their time out. There have been many times when I’d get home from Target and look at my grocery list, only to realize that I could have picked up the essentials (diapers,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Make an email alias to easily add your tasks

This week’s simple, helpful tip comes from rusharound: I love the RTM email address that puts items into your list. The trouble is, it’s a hard one to remember. I made an email alias with my ISP that forwards all email sent to todo@mydomain.com to my

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: The "Ugh!" List

If you find yourself missing or forgetting some tasks, this week’s tip, shared by mark.szoke should help you track those tasks that you keep putting off or that slip under your radar: I have a nasty habit of continually postponing certain tasks, or just “forgetting” to put a

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