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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Adding birthday reminders with Address Book

Always forgetting to mail out those birthday cards? RTM user odelaney has come up with a cool way to hook up RTM with your Mac Address Book: I wanted to setup a way of getting automatic tasks sent to RTM when someone’s birthday was coming up. I know I

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember to pamper yourself

Who said tasks can’t be fun? RTM user burdejanie posted this fantastic tip on the Tips & Tricks forum: One element that I’ve been using that others might be interested in adding is adding “pamper me” updates. I’ve created a list of things I’d like to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Task status at a glance with Ambient Devices

This week’s tip has made me jealous; it has to be one of the coolest ways to view your task status. RTM user aroussos explains the awesome hack he posted this week on the Tips & Tricks forum: In my continuing quest to have the best task/life integration,

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Staying in touch

It’s not often that a tip posted on the Tips & Tricks forum makes me laugh, but this one did (only because I’m slightly embarrassed to confess that I’m a follower of this tip!). Like many people, RTM user doster likes to stay in contact with old

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Memorising and motivation

This week’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday entry is a bit different to the ideas we’ve shared over the last few weeks. Firstly, we have two winners - david.esposito1 and dwr816 - and secondly, we’re moving away from technical tips and looking at how RTM can help

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using sleeper tags

Welcome to this week’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday! This week we’re looking at the idea of “sleeper tags”, as suggested by RTM user rajjan. This tip allows you to decide how far in advance (in relation to the due date) a task appears in your RTM Smart List.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Remember The Tags

Today’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday entry is so helpful, I’m not sure how I’ve been able to use Remember The Milk without it! Thanks to ralfvd for posting this on the forum. As I’ve mentioned in the past few weeks, the beauty of RTM is its

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using Time Estimates

This week’s idea comes from RTM user chandra.gaajula, who shared a great tip in the Tips & Tricks forum recently. Like me, Chandra sounds like he has lots of different tasks in various lists and he likes to know how much time he needs to set aside to

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organising your tag cloud

One of the handiest features of RTM is the ability to categorise and label each task using tags. Tags are simply keywords that you can use to make it easier to find tasks and to organise them for later use. These tags are stored in the tag cloud, which appears

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday

Welcome to the very first Tips & Tricks Tuesday! This is going to be a weekly spot where I’ll bring to you some of the most useful Remember The Milk tips and tricks that have been posted on the forums by our wonderful users. If you’re looking for

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Guest Post: Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk

I’m happy to introduce a guest post from Doug Ireton, who’s written a fantastic guide to Getting Things Done with RTM. Doug is a Sr. Platform Engineer on the Windows Server team at Nordstrom, a luxury clothing retailer based in Seattle, Washington. He is an avid Remember The

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21 useful searches for your tasks

The advanced search operators in Remember The Milk are pretty powerful, and RTM users have come up with all kinds of creative searches to find the tasks they’re looking for. Following are some of the coolest searches that users have shared in the forums, as well as some handy

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