RTM helps me a lot to remember those small recurring tasks that I tend to forget all the time. Examples of such tasks include writing my weekly time report, pushing the garbage can to the sidewalk every thursday evening and maybe take some medication when I'm ill.

I don't want these tasks to clutter my todo list since their only purpose is to remind me when they are due. To hide them until they are due, I use the tag #hidden and a Smart List that I call Hotlist.

Hotlist is set as my default list in the Google Chrome extension.

The search criteria for Hotlist is: dueBefore:now OR (NOT tag:hidden AND (dueBefore:"1 week of today" OR due:never))

Depending on your needs, the part after AND can be changed to include whatever "unhidden" tasks you consider hot.