SO much love for this application. I used Remember The Milk for task management before I even owned an especially smart phone… back in my HTC 8125 days… ha (happened to be cool circa 06′, OK?…).
Fortunately RTM made it really easy to get task reminders via text message by using Twitter. Which was ridiculously innovative… but that won’t be the topic of this post. So, onto more relevant points.
Mirror Action
After getting paid to spend 8 hours looking at a computer screen for a while now, the power of reflecting your online life on your mobile device has manifested itself to me. The ability to mirror any additions/changes you’ve made to your calendar events or task list is particularly important for maximum productivity. Going along with the ghetto picture theme, here’s a super ghetto photo of my homescreen widgets that stream in my tasks and calendar.
On the right RTM Tasks & to the left there is a widget I got off the Market called Pure Calendar, works great for streaming in Google calendars.
Smart Add
This could easily be the one reason (if I had to choose) I use RTM. Smart Add refers to the ability to type while adding a task “salad dressing 8am” and get a reminder in the morning at 8am to get salad dressing for the co-worker whose salad dressing you devoured over the last 2 weeks.
You can also use operators to add even more detail about the task. Like making the task have a repeating reminder by specifying “take garbage out thursday 8am *weekly”. You can check out how bad ass task management can be on your own time though.
An additional efficiency tip, if you use GMail is to use the Remember the Milk gadget. This provides the smart add functionality for calendar events and tasks in the convenient location of … right next to your inbox
Conclusion
Over all this app looks great and is easy to use. Not once have I experienced an issue with it and all the functionality of the web app streams flawlessly. Speaking of the web app… it’s incredible. I highly suggest getting and using Remember the Milk. It’s free (UPDATE… used to be, now only for 15 days), but just go pro… it’s like $20 a year or something similarly nominal.
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Nice article. I will check out Pure Calendar.
One correction though: RTM is free. However when you want to use the mobile apps you get it on trial base for x days and after that it’s blocked unless you’re a paying (pro) member of RTM.
Thanks for clarifying that Llanirev. I’m going to do a post on Pure Calendar here shortly, but I use it to stream in Google Apps Calendar from work. I think you’ll like.