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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Jazz up your tasks with emoji

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Jazz up your tasks with emoji

Using emojis in your task list may seem unexpected, but as countdiso says it can make things more fun and also stand out. Form and function?! When I look at Remember The Milk and browse my lists, I have lists such as Books, Films, Music, where I make a task

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Juggling financial tasks of all denominations

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Juggling financial tasks of all denominations

Keeping up with finances is important—and sometimes urgent too. Juggling everything can seem like its own job. This week’s tip comes from alan.porter, who shows how to keep up with the day-to-day, month-to-month, and periodic things to keep your finances humming along. I use RTM for lots

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The return of Bob’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday

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The return of Bob’s Tips & Tricks Tuesday

If you’ve been using Remember The Milk for a while, you might remember the “Tips & Tricks Tuesday” series on our blog. For over 10 years, each week we’d select an interesting Remember The Milk tip from the Tips & Tricks forum, and feature it on our blog.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using iOS Shortcuts to keep going

Using iOS Shortcuts can be a powerful way to do some custom things with your tasks. This week’s tip—tips!—is pszaro showing three different ways to use Shortcuts: to add tasks from webpages, to show upcoming tasks quickly, and to complete a repeating task when doing something else.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using iOS Shortcuts to keep up your grocery list

Using iOS Shortcuts is a helpful way to automate regular actions. This week’s tip comes from mirbogat, who uses the home screen icons to have one-touch access to adding grocery items to their list. I’m really enjoying the new Shortcuts integration, it’s been truly amazing for my

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Meal planning and grocery shopping at once

Meal planning and grocery shopping can be a lot of work. This week’s tip comes from kerrpe, who shares a neat setup of meal planning that then generates an organized list for the grocery store. I haven’t seen any recipe / grocery suggestions in a long time, so I’

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using advanced sorting to review tasks on the fly

We’ve discussed GTD on the blog before. One of the main ways you stay organized is by reviewing tasks regularly. evan.fredericks didn’t find that part helpful, so they came up with a new way of reviewing tasks more easily and regularly on your task list. Their tip

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Linking specific tasks together

You can group your tasks with lists, tags, or Smart Lists. Often that’s enough! But sometimes, you want a specific link between specific tasks, and that’s where this week’s tip comes in. nodonovan describes using task’s URLs so you can get to a specific task from

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Low-maintenance GTD with Smart Lists

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Low-maintenance GTD with Smart Lists

GTD (Getting Things Done) is a super method for keeping things out of your head, but it can be a lot of commitment. Enter this week’s tip, shared by mjh_sakh. They maintain the periodic review of your short- and long-term tasks but keep a very clear and simple

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Winning online auctions by adding tasks

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Winning online auctions by adding tasks

Online auctions are great, but who hasn’t missed an email about an item they’re watching? This week’s tip comes from zerzawy, who suggests adding a task with the appropriate due date. Then you can be reminded to act on that auction at the appropriate time. I often

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