Very Impressed with Remember The Milk
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With Gmail adding tasks yesterday, I was reading a few posts about it, and also the general concensus that Remember The Milk (rtm from now on) was better featured……
Having realised I had an account from WAY back, I had a proper look at it again today and I am rather impressed. No, take that back. VERY impressed.
Fully featured
Not only is it fully featured (customisable via tag, location, person, reminders …..) on their web site (very easy to use and configure), but the amount of integration into other web apps and devices is just superb. The killer integration is into Gmail, Gcal and also the iPhone / iPod Touch app.
The latter works perfectly, syncing quickly and efficiently, but is only free for 15 days, and then you will need a pro account, a measly $25 a year (something I paid for straight away – it really is worth it).
Within Gmail
The Gmail service is just as nice, giving you complete control over your tasks, even allowing them to be created from emails when you add a specific label. Coolio. They then show up in your Google Calendar, and they are all editable from there too.
It even works with twitter! You can follow Remember The Milk and then give it commands, and get the app to tweet you reminders – I haven’t looked at this properly yet, but looks promising.
Conclusion
If you need to stay in top of tasks, get reminders and not forget anything, then rtm is for you. It is an excellent web app, and if you use Google’s Calendar and Gmail, then you really are in for a treat and will get maximum benefit from it. Highly recommended!
[Thanks to JA for reminding me about Remember the Milk a few weeks ago].
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Really impressed with Remember the Milk – quick review http://bit.ly/QbJw
As always any task management system is going to be most powerful when it sits closely integrated with whichever system you use for email and planning.
the downside with the rtm integration into gmail, at the moment, seems to be that it isn’t possible to create a task out of an email. The tricky aspect of adding text notes in rtm in general is what makes it hard to use. when this gets better and the integration with the emails get closer i would consider changing my whole email, calendar and task environment to google since gmail for email rocks.
googles own labs app for tasks is integrated with emails but lacks so much other functionality.
still waiting for the perfect email/task/calendar app.
Hi David,
The good news is that you can create tasks using a specific email address, so that could swing it for you!
Let me know how you get on!