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Working with professional contacts requires a lot of hands-on work. In this week’s tip, henry.alpert shows how to make a straightforward CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system, making excellent use of Smart Lists and subtasks to keep one’s contacts and actions organized and streamlined. Remember The Milk is
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Powering through the afternoon slump can be its own daily task, so perhaps geojono’s tip will put some proverbial wind in your proverbial sails: get a few quick things done to help encourage you to finish out the afternoon. Here’s something that’s helped me with my ever-growing
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Being organized is its own reward, right? However, being constructive at the same time is even better. 😄 In this week’s tip, johnfoland shares shares some, well, creative ways to use your daily organization for creative writing. Whether you’re writing a novel, a play, a stand-up special, or even
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Running can be a straightforward exercise but training and racing can certainly become more involved! In this week’s tip, connieu suggests tracking everything beyond the “just lace up” maxim: from longer training runs to scheduled races and everything in between. I’ve decided to train for a half marathon
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Traveling comes with its own sets of tasks, particularly around packing and preparing for the trip. This week’s tip, shared by jondcoleman, offers a handy template for preparing, with one extra twist: using Smart Add to put the dates in as needed. I travel for work about twice a
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We all have those tasks we don’t want to do—we postpone them, we procrastinate, we get them done… eventually, right? In this week’s tip, mcaneted takes a Mark Twain proverb and turns it into a way to get unpleasant tasks done quickly! There is a quote from
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Climbing a mountain isn’t something you decide to do overnight—it takes planning and motivation. In this week’s tip, Remember The Milk user macness extends that analogy to your tasks: you can keep some “Everest” tasks at hand so you can keep on climbing step by proverbial step!
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Ever get partway through your day and realize you forgot to do a quick thing in the morning? This week’s tip, shared by jjcardil, suggests a repeating task for morning—"startup"—and the end of the day—"shutdown"—where you can add subtasks for as
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Once your moving checklist is done, living in a new residence can mean a number of inevitable shopping trips to pick up new supplies and such. In this week’s tip, radmoose shares a simple and perennial tip: keep track of everything as quickly as you think of it, and
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Ever feel too organized? (We know, there’s not really any such thing!) Sometimes you are organizing your tasks or returning to an old project and you notice you have multiple tags for your tasks. Oops! This week’s tip, shared by enkanadi, suggests grouping those to prevent any crossover.
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Using GTD in Remember The Milk is very flexible, and there are a few ways to incorporate all its principles. This week’s tip is shared by skominers, who suggests a quick method for using tasks as projects with the actions as subtasks inside. Read the full post for all
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Keeping organized with GTD can really help focus on what you can do, but another aspect is keeping track of upcoming and “anytime” tasks with a “tickler” list. This week’s tip is shared by sunilgtder and focuses on keeping track of those tasks that don’t need a due