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Remember the Milk adds Twitter support for creating and managing tasks
In a day and age where everything from YouTube to Pownce are vying for both our free and shouldn't-be-free time, it's great to see a company like Remember the Milk figuring out an ingenious way to help keep our daily tasks organized while we're goofing off or micro-blogging with Twitter. On the company's blog today, RTM announced not only that they have a Twitter account of their own, but that you can actually get some clever use out of it. By adding the RTM Twitter account as a friend and then direct messaging it with a specific syntax they have put together, you can actually create tasks, send tasks to friends and even command tasks (mark them as complete, get an SMS of a list's tasks, etc.). This is a stellar way of combining such a dynamic service as Twitter with a way of being productive, and all it requires is some simple linking of your RTM account with your Twitter username.Fortunately, both Twitter and Remember the Milk are free to sign up for, giving you a valid way to justify all that time you spend on Twitter to your boss.
Thanks Chris!
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 7:42PM on 7-09-2007
Good gravy! Another potential GTD candidate. Maybe. If I could only settle on a workflow I'd actually start getting something done!
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Alex Tran said 12:29AM on 7-10-2007
Interesting. The only downside I have to this is that text messaging is a slow process (even if you are the reigning texting champion).
For the past month or so I've been experimenting with the use of Jott and RTM.
Jott is a free service which allows you to send text messages/emails to any of your contacts (or groups of contacts) via an 800 number.
So my flow is I call Jott (via a speed dial), tell it I want to "Jott" RTM, say my task, hang up, and it sends an email to my RTM account and puts the task in my Inbox.
The only pet peeve I have to this is that you have to speak slowly and clearly for the transcription to be accurate and the task shows up as "[Jott from ...] Insert task here" versus just the task itself.
Regardless, it's still much quicker and more convenient to say my task than text it out.
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