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Looking at your task lists can help you see everything you have going on, but what about a new perspective? This week’s tip comes from someone who suggests using your calendar to see your tasks in a new way.

Remember The Milk allows you to export tasks as a calendar feed (it’s detailed here). Popping your tasks out of a list and into a calendar is a great way to get a different perspective on your work. If you see a day with a ton of items, it might be a good idea to spread things out. The calendar view is a useful way to see your tasks in a different light.

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.

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 of a film I want to see or a book I’d like to read.

But, on my list I make it a bit funky by using emojis.

Books 📘
Films 📽️
Music 🎵

It helps make RTM a bit more colourful, fun and the emojis help things stand out.

Adding emojis on a phone is usually an easy task, but on a computer it isn’t quite as easy, but you can simply head over to Emojipedia.org and search for a suitable emoji, copy and paste it and make your lists look fancy.

Thanks for sharing this tip, countdiso! 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.

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The past few years have upended all kinds of ways we organize our work and home lives. (And even that may be an understatement!) So we appreciated this tip from stevenov that offers a simple and perennial reminder to organize your tasks in a way that helps strike the balance between work and home.

Just a reminder about the beauty of lists! With so many working from home, it’s easy for your work projects and personal ones to blend together. Lists are an easy way to keep everything separated. Create a work list, so when you’re working, you only see work stuff. Use a personal list, so when you’re done, you only see everything else. Switching from one to the other is also a good way to signify the beginning and the end of the work day.

It’s more of a mental tip, but an important one.

Thanks for sharing this tip, stevenov! 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.

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 of things: personal items, yearly goals, lists of books to read and movies to watch. But my biggest motivation for using RTM is for staying on top of bills. It easily handles the various schedules on which recurring bills come due.

So I have a list called “bills”, which my wife and I share. It contains monthly bills like credit cards, annual bills like property tax and insurance, and also some reminders to do some financial hygiene like balancing checkbooks and downloading statements.

To separate the different kind of financial tasks, I created three tags (with different colors): pay.manual, pay.auto and pay.none.

Pay.manual is for bills that we have to pay ourselves (not auto-drafted). It requires manual action from us to initiate it.

Pay.auto is for bills that are auto-drafted from our bank, so we don’t actually need to DO anything, except maybe check on it later.

Pay.none is for tasks like balancing the checkbook or downloading statements, which need to be done from time to time, but that can slide a few days without penalty.

With these tags, my wife and I can tell at a glance whether the time-critical stuff needs immediate attention. And when we get a rainy Sunday, we can take care of all of those other cleanup items.

Thanks for sharing this tip, alan.porter! 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.

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. The user whose idea inspired that week’s post would win a 1 year Pro account.

From this week, Bob’s bringing Tips & Tricks Tuesday back! If you have 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. You never know, maybe your tip will be featured next. 😉

Looking for a fantastic gift for someone who could use a little help getting organized? Bob T. Monkey, productivity expert and gift giver extraordinaire, has the perfect idea for you. A gift of Remember The Milk Pro will help the lucky recipient get organized, and we’ll give you a little something too. :)

For each 1 year Gift Pro account that you buy between now and December 31, 2023, you’ll receive 3 months of Pro for yourself. (And if you’re feeling generous and buy a 2 year gift, you’ll get 6 months of Pro for yourself 😉)

When you purchase a Gift Pro account, we’ll give you a special gift code to give to the recipient (you can send it via email, or print out a handy gift card). All the gift recipient needs to do is enter their code at a special page, and the Pro account is theirs.

The full details are available at our Holiday Special page. Happy holidays, everyone!

Today we’re celebrating 18 years since we launched Remember The Milk. Yes, this little app is all grown up! Bob T. Monkey insisted on celebrating with a birthday cupcake (he’s quite possibly the team member with the sweetest tooth).

We’d like to say an enormous thank you to everyone who’s supported us over the past 18 years! Of course, an extra special thanks to those who’ve upgraded to Pro and allowed us to keep this thing going all these years. :)

From Bob and the team, thank you all for using Remember The Milk!

Wondering how much stuff you got done with Remember The Milk this year? Bob T. Monkey has helpfully been keeping track of your stats for you. Just log in to the web app, and we’ll tell you how many tasks you’ve completed in 2022. There’s also options to share your stats on Twitter and Facebook, if you’re feeling so inclined.

I completed 1,928 tasks with @rememberthemilk in 2022 #rtmstats
— Bob T. Monkey
December 29, 2022

Yes, it’s that time of year again! We bring you the perfect gift idea, courtesy of productivity and gift-giving expert Bob T. Monkey. A gift of Remember The Milk Pro will help the lucky recipient get organized, and we’ll give you a little something too. :)

For each 1 year Gift Pro account that you buy between now and December 31, 2022, you’ll receive 3 months of Pro for yourself. If you’re feeling generous and buy a 2 year gift, you’ll get 6 months of Pro for yourself!

When you purchase a Gift Pro account, we’ll give you a special gift code to give to the recipient (you can send it via email, or print out a handy gift card). All the gift recipient needs to do is enter their code at a special page, and the Pro account is theirs.

The full details are available at our Holiday Special page. Happy holidays, everyone!

Can you believe that we’re seventeen years old? Nope, we couldn’t either. It’s true, we launched Remember The Milk waaay back in 2005. Thank you to everyone who’s joined us along the way!

We truly appreciate all your support over the past seventeen years, and we’re super grateful to everyone who’s upgraded to Pro. Your support has allowed us to keep building and running Remember The Milk for all these years. :)

From Bob and the team, thank you all for using Remember The Milk!