Remember The Milk: Never Forget Your Tasks
3. March 2007 – 01:44 by
The world is turning faster each day it seems and some people - including me - have a difficult time catching up on all their tasks and to-dos. We have to organise and manage our lives a little bit every now and then. Calendars are important but also to-do lists, either offline or online.
If you decide to manage your to-dos online you can either use calendars like 30 Boxes or special applications. One of those applications is Australian Remember The Milk, which was launched in October 2005 already. While being live for a rather long time now it is still run by just two people. Well, there is Bob T. Monkey as well but he’s a stuffed monkey. However he seems to have some positive influence on the team. 
Features
The feature list of Remember The Milk (RTM) is almost endless. Noteworthy ones are:
1720 localisations- A mobile version for all cell phone owners out there which makes RTM especially useful. Ever forgot your grocery list?
- Reminders by SMS, email, Skype, and instant messenger (GTalk, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber, and even Polish Gadu-Gadu)
- Integration with Google Calendar and IMified; modules for Netvibes and Google Personalised Homepage are also available.
- Atom, RSS, and iCal support: you can share your to-do lists with your contacts and make them public.
- Smart Lists: they allow grouping of all tasks which have the same due date, priority, or tags.
- Integration of Google Maps: assign locations to your tasks and plan a route to get them done more quickly.
There are various ways to add tasks to RTM: directly from the homepage, by using a bookmarklet, or even by email. All three ways work really good and without any problems. Adding all relevant info like due date, priority, notes,… is easy and mostly self-explanatory. It looks like this:
Summary
Remember The Milk has a slick and tidy user interface which doesn’t distract users from managing their tasks. I am using RTM since spring of last year and never felt the need to try another application.
Also there are two tutorials worth checking out for people who use David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) concept. Maybe give RTM a try before switching to specialised applications.
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