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Each week we feature tips and tricks from Remember The Milk users on our blog. Following are some highlights from the blog; you can also check out the full archive for more tips.

Remember The Milk Features

Smart Lists

Learn about some of the very cool things you can do with Smart Lists.

• Upcoming tasks, with a twist
• Staying motivated with completed tasks
• Reducing your overall number of tasks
• Be productive everywhere!
• Superlist!
• Should, Could, and Would lists
• Building combination Smart Lists
• Using priority instead of due dates
• Taking care of postponed tasks
• Cleaning out old tasks with a Smart List
• Spend less time categorizing your tasks with keyword-based Smart Lists
• See tasks due where you are
• Catching up on tasks using Smart Lists
• Running to-do lists
• Advance notice of upcoming tasks with Smart Lists and tagging
• Working on and off your computer
• Using Smart Lists to see tasks due in specific weeks
• Today's quick tasks
• Filtering telephone calls
• Two-week Smart List
• The "Ugh!" List
• Use a "Dashboard" to avoid misfiling a task (or missing a deadline!)
• Separating tasks by context
• Use a Smart List to auto-populate properties for super-fast task addition
• Saving time with simple Smart Lists
• A better "Upcoming" list
• Going crazy with advanced searches
• Focusing on tasks due now, not later
• Peeking at the week ahead with Smart Lists
• Staying on top of postponed tasks
• Remember the tags
• Using time estimates
• 21 useful searches for your tasks

Tags

Check out the ways you can use tags to organize your tasks.

• Auto-tagging via Smart Lists
• Multitasking while watching TV
• #Chore for #Reward
• Keeping track of untagged tasks
• Efficient errands with tagging and Smart Lists
• Avoid heatstroke with time-based tags
• The power of tagContains
• Tagging tasks with weather conditions
• Tagging with required resources
• Using sleeper tags
• Organising your tag cloud

Smart Add

You can add tasks even faster with Smart Add.

• Add tasks super fast with text shortcuts and Smart Add
• Recurring Projects and Smart Add
• Create a Smart Add cheat sheet on your phone

Creative ways to use Remember The Milk

Household

• Selling unwanted items online
• Staying on track with chores
• Organizing chores with Remember The Milk
• Replacing old batteries
• Keeping your home address current
• Tracking warranties
• Short-term crisis management
• DIY with Remember The Milk
• Preparing for a garage sale
• How does your garden grow?
• Keeping your house clean, one room at a time
• Shared lists for getting housework done
• Living with eleven other guys and a dog
• Keeping tabs on shoddy customer service
• Managing snags in a new home
• Creating a Borrowed/Lent list

Relationships

• Planning date nights
• Keeping up with friends
• Keeping up with your relationship
• Living abroad and phoning home
• Using Remember The Milk in a long distance relationship
• Romance planning with Remember The Milk
• Staying in touch

Food

• Keeping track of frozen food
• Planning your meals
• Dinner planning with Remember The Milk
• Keeping track of vegetables
• Minimize your food wastage
• Managing recipes and meals

Shopping & Gifts

• Organize your Christmas shopping
• Planning holiday gifts
• Keeping track of past and future gifts
• Remember your thank-yous
• Track your Christmas shopping
• Tracking gift cards
• Tracking your online orders
• Keeping a gift list
• Making shopping easier

Self-Improvement

• Creating habits for personal growth
• Self-improvement with Remember The Milk
• Creating "bucket lists" for better living
• Developing a good habit
• New Year's resolutions
• Push yourself with Push Notifications

Memory

• Memorizing passwords
• Where did I put that?
• Memorising and motivation

Health & Fitness

• Preparing for a baby's arrival
• Keeping your cosmetics fresh
• Remember your dental hygiene with 'after' repeating tasks
• Getting to 100 push-ups
• Half Marathon Training
• Dieting with Remember The Milk
• Working out with Remember The Milk
• Talking to the doctor
• Remember to pamper yourself

Work

• Job searching with Remember The Milk
• Managing objectives for a periodic review
• Agile software development with tags
• The Boss List
• Using Remember The Milk with Monday meetings
• Breaking down tasks in your job search
• Using Remember The Milk in a daily stand-up meeting
• Making your boss happy
• Remember the blog
• Keeping your CV up-to-date
• Creating weekly status reports

Personal Finance

• Keeping track of coupons
• Renewing deals
• Keeping track of 'free trial' periods — and remembering to cancel!
• Getting stuff done when money is tight
• Tracking your group-buy coupons
• Cooling off before making big purchases
• Get a refund on price drops
• Keeping track of small reimbursements
• Track your cash spending
• Clean up your credit history with Smart Add
• Avoiding impulse shopping
• The perfect bill organizer
• Tracking tax paperwork
• Keeping your wallet small and tidy
• Organizing your coupons

Vehicles

• Tracking vehicle maintenance
• Dude, where's my car?
• Keep on top of your car's basic maintenance

Travel

• Getting ready for a vacation
• Packing for trips by tagging tasks
• Making a travel checklist

Education

• Using Remember The Milk in education, from tracking assignments to planning lessons
• Looking ahead in school with a Smart List
• Tracking academic conferences and papers
• Managing college readings as a student with ADHD
• Tracking conference deadlines
• Remember The Milk – A lifesaver for a college student
• Preparing for exams

Entertainment

• Saving new music for later
• Keeping track of dragons (yes, dragons!)
• Checking out new songs
• Magician's Choice
• Getting movie recommendations from friends
• Never forget to watch a movie
• Spotify + Remember The Milk
• Saving time and frustration at the video store

Reading

• Remember to read Tips & Tricks Tuesday
• Creating a habit of reading
• Automating library books
• Catching up on reading

Getting Things Done (GTD) & Productivity Methodologies

• Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk
• Finding next actions that you haven't acted on
• Using Remember The Milk for GTD in a School Environment
• My Tickler Setup
• Zen to Done
• Monk to Done, a GTD approach
• Creating a "Quadrant 1" Smart List for your Urgent and Important tasks

Productivity Tips

• The Awesome List
• Serendipitous tasks
• Zen priorities
• Start your list with the least important task
• Top 5 tasks
• Divide and subtract to tackle a huge list
• Easy and difficult tasks
• Chipping away at massive tasks
• Mindless tasks for multi-tasking
• Maintaining task balance
• Most Important Tasks

Using Remember The Milk with Email

• Sending email… in the future!
• Easily processing your "Waiting For" list
• Make an email alias to easily add your tasks
• Creating tasks quickly with Outlook signatures
• Using e-mail redirection for requests from non-technical folks
• Use Gmail's Canned Responses to quickly add sets of tasks
• Mind dumping with email + Smart Add

Even more cool tips

• Nightly follow-up reminders
• Adding tasks in unexpected places
• Get creative with Emoji for Smart Lists
• Wall of widgets
• Domain watching
• Winning contests
• Fast input for tasks using snippets
• Combine LeechBlock and Remember The Milk to avoid distractions and get more done
• Adding tasks via text message
• Two quick ways to add tasks to Remember The Milk: Unix Command Line + Automator Service in Snow Leopard
• Bring your tasks to the desktop with GeekTool
• Adding birthday reminders with Address Book
• Task status at a glance with Ambient Devices