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ranbarton

Terrific - so clever.

I wonder if the people who have hacked the bookmarklet can offer any suggestions about getting the URL of a feed item into the URL field of the task?

The favicon URL for the RTM cow is, I believe: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/favicon.ico

Posted at 5:56pm on August 19, 2009

I would just add a link to the ICON URL to be
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/img/gears/desktop_128x128.png

S

Posted at 11:26pm on August 19, 2009

Actually, after a little bit of digging around, I've come up with an even better solution. I decided to blog on it, because it's a little more involved than what I could post here.

http://www.theitjuggler.com/2009/08/20/google-reader-sendto-remember-milk/

Posted at 1:41am on August 20, 2009

rossgoodman

Excellent.

I keep forgetting about the m. pages as I cannot get it to work on my Blackberry but this will work on my PC !

Thanks

Ross
Half Marathon Soon !

Posted at 11:58am on August 20, 2009

nselander

Not sure if this is what theitjuggler described in his blog, but since the blog post is gone, here's a better solution that allows the URL to go to the URL field:

Name: RTM
URL: https://m.rememberthemilk.com/add?name=${title}&url=${url}
Icon URL: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/favicon.ico

The mobile site has a URL parameter, which the "Add Task" service above lacks. Downside is that you apparently have to log in again even if you're logged into the web interface.

Thanks to the author of this RTM/GReader Greasemonkey script for pointing out the mobile interface. The Greasemonkey script looks like a decent option, but I prefer the native "Send To" capability to having a script polling every three seconds.

Posted at 8:03pm on October 7, 2009

nselander

Upon further Googling, it looks like a copy of theitjuggler's article is available here: Google Reader - How to "Send To" Remember The Milk

Basically an expanded version of what I posted above. Hopefully that one is a bit more reliable than the theitjuggler's own blog.

Posted at 8:06pm on October 7, 2009

Very nice idea. I'm not a fan of the required re-login, but still pretty neat.

Not sure if its much more useful than using the email feature to RTM, but I guess it has two advantages in 1) speed and 2) it provides a URL.

The draw back I noticed with the nselander's link is that its almost too complicated. You have to login (even if you are already), then there are about 8 fields open to fill out. You don't have to fill those, but its almost like I have to.

My main use for this is to bookmark/review a certain post I like (i.e. a lifehacker post), and then do something about it later. All I want from RTM is something to jog my memory - I don't want to make a task right then and set all the details out right then.

Still, very neat. Something I'll for sure use in the future.

Posted at 3:26pm on October 14, 2009