Remember the Milk
Posted by maggied on 15 Jun 2007 at 02:17 am | Tagged as: Productivity
Remember that post I made a little while ago about “My Quest”? Well, despite my criticisms of a lot of the software out there, I think I’ve found a client that I really like, and it integrates well with decent stuff out there. It’s called Remember The Milk (funny name, I know). What brought RTM to my attention was the fact that it created a great Google Gears application to integrate with Google Calendar. So, all that ranting I had about good integration with a calendar client is pretty much down the drain.
Some awesome things about Remember the Milk: the shortcuts (if you get the hang of them), let you add, tag, and move events really quickly, so it’s almost like entering them in at the command line, which is a feature I would have liked. The way that it organizes tasks is nice. You can give tasks a due date, postpone that due date, tag items, etc. Tasks are organized by list, but you can also sort tasks based on the tags you give them. You also have the ability to work off-line, and then sync your data later.
Google Calendar does actually have a “quick add” function, which is pretty neat, although I have not needed to use it too much. It was particularly useful for adding in birthdays rapidly. Of all the calendar applications I’ve tried out, Google Calendar (who would’ve guessed it), certainly wins as far as the whole integration thing goes. Google simply tends to make it easier to integrate things with, so having my to-do list in with calendars, the weather, all accessible over the internet sounds like a big win to me.
[…] I first blogged about Remember the Milk a little while ago when I was talking about My Quest. Very recently, RTM added a function that lets you sync your tasks via Twitter. Basically, you can now access RTM via IM, SMS, the Twitter web page, or other Twitter applications. I tried it out, and although the Twitter interface itself is a little confusing, the results were pretty satisfying. […]