{"id":28915,"date":"2017-05-25T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=28915"},"modified":"2017-05-24T18:06:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T01:06:06","slug":"remember-the-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/remember-the-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been using the task manager, Remember the Milk, since 2009 \u2014 the somewhat early days of web 2.0 \u201cfree\u201d to-do apps. The free version sufficed for a few years, but when I started using a smartphone, it wasn\u2019t long before I decided to upgrade to enable continuous syncing between the browser and iPhone apps. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve tested Todoist, Do, Wunderlist, and probably others, but have always come back to Remember the Milk (RTM) for a number of reasons: <\/p>\n

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  1. I don\u2019t have to use the mouse; within the app, browsing, searching, and adding complex tasks can be accomplished using the built-in key commands and smart-add language. <\/li>\n
  2. It integrates with Quicksilver<\/a> for Mac, allowing me to quickly add tasks without leaving whatever app I\u2019m in, and if I\u2019m not at my laptop I can email new tasks to the app (I set up an IFTT button on my phone which accomplishes this even faster than opening the RTM mobile app). <\/li>\n
  3. I can subscribe to my task feed in Google Calendar \u2014 anything dated now appears in my calendar. <\/li>\n
  4. Any search, from simple to advanced, can be saved as a smart list. My own \u201cToday\u201d smart list functions as I want it to, which is slightly different than the app\u2019s built-in Today list: it shows tasks that might be overdue by only a day, tasks due tomorrow, and un-dated tasks marked with high priority.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now the app does much more than keep my tasks organized; I file everything that isn\u2019t an actual file here: links to articles to read, gift ideas, birthdays, web bookmarks, line items to add to my cv, project ideas, packing lists (which can be archived when not in use), etc. The one piece of missing functionality now feels entirely intentional: you can\u2019t save attachments. For some this would be a deal-breaker, but I appreciate the separation of thoughts and digital clutter. This is task-making and note-taking (in plain text!) only, and it does both of these jobs exceedingly well. Now I don\u2019t have to remember where I saved anything \u2014 anything worth recalling later I add here.<\/p>\n

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    Powerful task manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28917,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28915\/revisions\/28917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}