Remember the Milk: Another to-do list web service

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Remember the Milk: Another to-do list web service

by Jordan Running Oct 12th 2005

I don't know when to-do lists suddenly became the wave of the future, but it seems like there's a new to-do list app showing up every other week. This week's is Remember the Milk, a particularly featureful list-keeper. With Remember the Milk you can set due dates for your tasks, assign color-coded priorities, categorize your tasks (e.g. Work, Personal, etc.), create tasks that repeat every day, week, etc., store unlimited notes for each task, get reminders via e-mail, IM, or SMS, send tasks to others people, and undo most actions. The interface is simple and attractive but how to do everything isn't entirely straightforward from the get-go, so some exploring is necessary, but otherwise Remember the Milk is very impressive, and it's completely free to boot.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

dholld8 said 6:56PM on 10-12-2005

I would like it a lot better if there was a way to enter the due date, time, and number of minutes before task due without having to take my hands back and forth between the mouse and keyboard. Simply being able to tab between fields would be great. I would not use it in its current state. IMO it is like having to enter each task twice. When I hit enter, I should be done with entering that task.

Emily said 6:54PM on 10-13-2005

dholld8, you'd probably be interested in the keyboard shortcuts then - no need to use the mouse at all :)

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/basics/keyboard.rtm

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