I am a procrastinator. I think the best evidence of that is that I haven’t updated this blog in almost a month. I have so many different things going on at any given point that a lot of it generally gets forgotten. This is where the app I’m going to talk about today comes in.
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Remember The Milk is a fantastic web-based application which is almost certain to keep you on task. It basically functions like a To-Do list on steroids. Not only can you input the different tasks and projects you have coming up, complete with due dates but you can also set priority of the projects, sort them by theme (work, study, personal, etc…), and have the program send you alerts by e-mail, IM, or text message. I currently have mine send me an e-mail an hour before anything is due as well as an e-mail at 9am telling me all the tasks I have due that day. Its great.
The really nice thing is that even though its web-based you can still access it while you are offline and it will merely sync back up when you get an Internet connection. This provides the flexibility of use from your own computer or from any other internet enabled computer. You can also send tasks in an e-mail to the service and it will automatically add them, meaning that you can just send in a task from your smartphone (if you have one).
I forgot the best part: This is completely free.
Its not my style to write positive reviews of things but this is a piece of software that has been remarkably useful for me and I recommend everyone give it a try. My only gripe with the program is that it focuses a bit too much on keyboard shortcuts, but its easy to get the hang of it. (Protip: “^” sets the due date, “!” plus a number sets the priority, and “#” sets the task list)
Final Score: 9/10
Advanced Getting Things Done with RTM: http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2008/05/guest-post-advanced-gtd-with-remember-the-milk/
Originally posted on: April 7th, 2010
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