Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Cleaning out old tasks with a Smart List

If you’ve been using Remember The Milk for any length of time, you may have added some tasks that just didn’t get done. This week’s tip, shared by chris089, suggests looking through those tasks to get them done or just to cut them loose.

#5 of the Cult Of Done Manifesto got me thinking: I have a lot of items on my lists that have been there for ages and will probably stay there forever. So I created a new Smart List:

(NOT addedWithin:“1 week”) AND due:never

This results in a shocking 302 open tasks. During my next weekly review, I’ll go through those and either decide when and what to do about them or just delete them. And then repeat that every week.

Thanks for sharing this tip, chris089! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

Do you have a suggestion for our weekly Tips & Tricks post? Got an interesting set-up or idea? Head over to the Tips & Tricks forum, add a new topic, and let us know how you use Remember The Milk. Each week we’ll give away a 1 year Pro account to the user whose idea inspires the Tips & Tricks Tuesday blog post for that week.