Tips & Tricks Tuesday: “Plotting” revenge with tasks due later

Wanting revenge is a common feeling, but acting on it is (just maybe) not always for the best.

This week’s tip comes from countdiso, who plots a course for all of us through common scenarios of revenge. The key is… waiting! Delay your response and you may find you choose a different reaction. 😉

Revenge is a dish best served… later, much later.

Life can be a rollercoaster of emotions. Someone cuts you up in traffic, or perhaps they take the last gluten-free option at the bakery, or someone ghosts you after two months of messaging like you’re having the wildest love affair of your life. Your natural instinct is to exact swift and sweet revenge, but as someone wise (probably a villain) once said, “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” In the world of task management, I say it’s a dish best served… much, much later. Enter Remember The Milk—your handy tool for the pettiest form of delayed vengeance imaginable.

Now, before you start plotting your evil plans, we need to talk about timelines. Just how much did this sting?

Why don’t we break it down?

The Rude Co-Worker: Your co-worker did suggest that maybe you’re “too old” for TikTok. Start date: six months. By the time this task pops up, TikTok will be obsolete, and you’ll be busy mastering whatever the next social media fad is.

The Car Crash: Someone bumped into your car, and they did a bit of damage—not much, they even gave you some cash for it, but it still doesn’t make it right. Make that a two-year reminder. Two years later, you’ll be driving a new car and won’t even remember what the old one looked like.

The Broken Heart: Ah, the deep wounds. For a breakup that made you question if love is just a made-up word that other people use but never you, set a solid 10-year due date. Trust me, when this pops up, you’ll laugh because you’ve already moved on, or, you know, your ex is getting married and they’ll get a real shock that ten years later you turned up with a paintball gun to ruin their wedding dress.

But here’s the kicker—when these tasks finally arrive and you open up Remember The Milk, you’ll realise that you’ve evolved beyond the need for revenge. You’ve lived, laughed, loved (or at least eaten enough takeaways to fill the void), and life has gone on. You’ll check it off your list, not with malice, but with the ultimate sense of victory: You don’t care anymore. Oh, and over the years when people have wronged you all you’ve done is give them a cheeky wink, and said “I want you to remember this moment and think carefully about it on..” checks phone “the 29th of May 2037”. Trust me, they will be worried.

Not reacting straight away will make you a much better person because revenge, dear reader, isn’t about acting on your anger. It’s about realising, many months or years later, that you’ve grown past it. And nothing, not even revenge, is more satisfying than that little “ding!” when you check off a completed task in Remember The Milk.

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

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