Remember The Milk: A website that has made my life easier
As I am preparing to leave for vacation I am realizing just how powerful one website has become in my life. I had become very stressed out over the staggering amounts of tasks I had to complete each day. Using the traditional “todo” list was not helping and my todo lists were spanning multiple pages. I was pointed in the direction of a great book and after reading the book, “Getting Things Done” by David Allen I tried many different applications in order to organize and keep on top of my very busy work days.
An average day for me starts with many tasks and has more added on throughout the day. These tasks must be prioritized, remembered and most importantly completed on-time. On a day like today I have already completed 45 tasks.
The site I finally settled on is http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ . I chose this site for numerous reasons.
- It provides a very simple user interface which I as a minimalist at heart appreciate
- It has a pretty decent companion iPhone app for adding tasks when you actually remember them; not when you get back to a computer and can remember what you thought about while in line at the store
- It is platform independent. I get the same UI on my work computer as on my home computer
- Amazingly *knock on wood* it is not yet blocked by my corporates “Big Brother” proxy
This website has helped me organize my professional and my personal life. I can easily create a “list” to tackle a specific large project (like our kitchen renovation) or use one of the numerous smaller lists I’ve created; like one for each of my accounts at work and one entitled “Pets” that reminds me to get cat or dog food, clean the litter box etc etc.
For anybody looking to get on top of things and to reduce what I found to be a good deal of stress give RTM a shot. It’s even FREE!
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