Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Clean up (and power up) your paper notes with Remember The Milk tasks

Keeping notes on your desk can be handy… until there are too many, or until you step away from your desk. This week’s tip, shared by jehnaz, suggests converting those to Remember The Milk tasks periodically—you’ll clean off your desk, but you’ll also get reminders, mobile access, “and more”! :)

Have you ever had so many Sticky Notes stuck all over your desk and on your walls and lost track of them all???

Well, the solution is to use RTM to manage them. I have created a list called “Notes” and anything I come across that I would like to remember for future reference I just create a task in the Notes list with task title being the note description. And additional information added in the notes area of that task.

Added benefit is that RTM can remind you of any note you wish to be reminded of. Plus, you can have many notes within a note because RTM allows you to create unlimited notes within a task! Cool huh?

I no longer see myself using Sticky Notes because I always have RTM with me everywhere (my phone, my computer, my tablet, etc). And of course, you never have to worry about losing any notes ever again!

A few examples of notes you can have are: phone numbers you want to remember, car information, bookmarks with URL links, etc. The possibilities are endless :-)

Thanks for sharing this tip, jehnaz! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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