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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Preparing for exams

Stressed about exams? RTM user qoqosz shares this tip to help you stay organized and avoid being overwhelmed by your study notes: Being a student is a hard work ;) Tons of lecture notes, homeworks, classes and so on. But the worst are exams. Time which you have to spend in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping a gift list

It’s never too early to start thinking about the gift-giving season (it is November, after all!). This week’s tip comes courtesy of RTM user xaandria, who shares a great tip for keeping track of gifts you’re planning to make or buy: I’ve made a tab for

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Saving time and frustration at the video store

This week’s winner, RTM user kristian.domagala, shared a helpful tip to prepare for video store visits: When going to the video store to hire out a DVD, I used to find it very frustrating to try to find something that I wanted to see. Either I didn’t

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Bring your tasks to the desktop with GeekTool

GeekTool is a handy utility for Mac OS X that allows you to embed all kinds of stuff (specifically files, images, or command output) on your Mac desktop. Seeking a way to show Remember The Milk tasks on the desktop, RTM user dws90 has written and shared a script for

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Going crazy with advanced searches

This week’s tip comes courtesy of RTM user wcitypoe, who has some fantastic examples of just how advanced you can get with the advanced search operators. While wcitypoe describes it as “how to be far too complex with RTM’s advanced search”, but I say there’s no such

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Create a Smart Add cheat sheet on your phone

Want to use Smart Add when emailing tasks to Remember The Milk, but having trouble remembering all the different properties you can include alongside your task name? Try this helpful tip from RTM user jwander14 (while jwander14 is using an iPhone, this general idea will work on many phones). I

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember the blog

Bloggers have a lot of regular tasks: from the obvious “write a new blog post” task, to researching topics, tweaking the design and features, and blog promotion. RTM user and blogger, soloviov, shared four great tips on using Remember The Milk to stay on top of these tasks and “make

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Focusing on tasks due now, not later

This week’s tip comes courtesy of RTM user bunchbob, who shared this very handy search criteria: If you use the time feature in the due date to time things out, you can use the Smart List “dueBefore:now” and it will bring up anything you can do anytime today,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Mind dumping with email + Smart Add

Too many tasks cluttering up your brain? Try out this very useful tip from RTM user ovanrijswijk: Those of you who are using RTM as a GTD-system might also be using “Mind Dumps”. A mind dump is simply a way for you to get everything out of your head and

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Mindless tasks for multi-tasking

Looking for tasks that don’t require too much thinking? Check out this helpful tip from RTM user lclarke522: I created a “mindless” tag for those tasks that take a decent amount of time, but don’t require much brain-power (washing dishes, packing orders, etc.). These are perfect tasks to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Romance planning with Remember The Milk

This week’s winner, RTM user andrew.wilkie, shared a great tip for a more unusual use of Remember The Milk: romance planning! Bob’s been following this tip, and it’s already paying off (see photo, below). andrew.wilkie says: Regular romance is good, certainly if you are in

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Push yourself with Push Notifications

RTM user odelaney is training for the Marathon des Sables, 2011 – a 7-day running race, 150 miles across the Sahara Desert! He’s come up with a creative way of motivating himself, combining tasks with Push Notifications from the iPhone app. This is a great way to keep your motivation

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