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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Saving time with simple Smart Lists

Feel like you’re spending more time organizing your tasks than actually doing them? This simple time-saving tip from dwbrown77 takes advantage of Smart Lists to help sort your tasks with minimal effort: Many GTD solutions force you to spend more time categorizing etc then I feel is worth it

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember The Milk - A lifesaver for a college student

This week’s helpful tips come from mooryan’s experiences using Remember The Milk as a college student: I’ve used many different task management methods and systems, but RTM is here to stay. I love how I can really manage my whole life (work, school, personal, family, church, etc.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A better "Upcoming" list

This week’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner, RTM user davidscottweaver, explains how he came up with an incredibly useful “Upcoming” Smart List using the advanced search options: Since I only like to see tasks in my main lists (@Home, @Work, and @Car) that are due, overdue, or have no

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Catching up on reading

Got a shelf full of half-read books that are silently mocking you? (I know I do.) This week’s tip, from RTM user adjectivenoun, will help you plough through those pages: Do you ever have those books that you really want to finish but that just won’t die? My

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Chipping away at massive tasks

Finding some of your tasks a little bit daunting? Try this helpful tip from RTM user jhmorris: I have tasks on my to-do list which have been on there forever, I have no inclination to do anything about them. I’m blind to them. Some of these are massive tasks

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tagging tasks with weather conditions

Looking for tasks to do on a rainy day? Try tagging your tasks with weather conditions, as described by RTM user christoph76: Tags representing certain weather conditions can be very useful for organizing indoor or outdoor activities on a “Someday Maybe” list. I started to collect things I’d like

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: New Year's resolutions

Yup, it’s that time of year again! Why not try benb’s tip, and see how many New Year’s resolutions you can keep in the coming year? You’ve got Remember The Milk to help! :) It’s nearly the end of the year, and I decided to enter

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping tabs on shoddy customer service

This week’s tip comes from RTM user ianmcn, who shares a fantastic way to keep track of and document your customer service dealings: Whenever I have to make calls regarding some utility or service, I put the task into RTM (naturally!). Then while on the phone I create a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Managing snags in a new home

This week’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner, RTM user p.dade, shares a helpful tip for keeping track of imperfections in a new home: I have recently moved into a new home and have been going through the process of ‘snagging’ or checking for imperfections. I have found RTM

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Making a travel checklist

If you have travel plans for the holidays, this tip’s for you! RTM user mrgage shared some great ideas to ensure stress-free travel preparation: Inspired by GTD guru David Allen’s Travel Checklist, I set out to make my own with RTM. I tend to travel across country a

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Talking to the doctor

This helpful tip, shared by RTM user mehardin, is useful not only for an upcoming doctor’s appointment, but any kind of meeting where you want to make sure you have everything covered: I have my semi-annual checkup in a couple of days, and I keep thinking of different things

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