App for the Milk is a cross-platform Adobe Air-based desktop client version of the extremely popular online task management application Remember the Milk. One of the unique aspects of Remember the Milk is that it lends itself well to various user interface interpretations. There are already a number of different UIs for RTM, including the classic web interface, the embedded Gmail interface, the Gmail gadget interface, and the iPhone interface. Each has common elements, but differs in the details.

In other words, each new interface is a new take, and not just a copy of the web interface. This holds true for App for the Milk as well. Instead of a full-screen approach, App for the Milk takes a decidedly pared-down task list approach. Most (but not all) of what the web version can do is still available, though sometimes hidden in unlabeled buttons in the app's toolbar. In fact, there are more than a few aspects of App for the Milk's interface that seem a little rough around the edges. On the upside, it looks like App for the Milk, while not officially designated a beta version, is in active development, and the developer admits that some functionality like smart lists is still to come.

If you like having a list of your outstanding tasks handy, App for the Milk will probably be a welcome addition to your desktop. If you prefer to have the full suite of functionality, including offline availability, Remember the Milk's web interface is still your best bet.

Remember The Milk have released their new client for Android devices in the Android Market.

Available as a free download, the client does require the user to have a 'Pro' account, which is priced at $25 per year. This puts the official client at odds with the popular (and excellent) third party solution Astrid, which can be used with free accounts.

The official application does bring a host of features that make the $25 outlay tempting - as well as looking great it is feature packed, and one-ups the iPhone client with full background sync functionality.

RTM for Android includes a number of other features that make the most of your mobile device. Our favourites include location awareness - tasks can be assigned to a place and the application will generate a notification when you near that location, full landscape support, a homescreen widget and swipe gesture support. Most importantly, there seems to be nothing you can do on the website that you can't do on your device!

Head on over to the Android page at the Remember The Milk website for more details or fire up the Android Market to download.

Used to be desktop applications were essential to getting the job done, whatever the job may have been, large or small. Now, with all the nimble web apps to choose from, the idea of firing up a huge application for a small task seems almost, well, unproductive and wasteful.

Yeah, sure, no one is suggesting you do away with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quickbooks and other heavy hitters. However, there are excellent tools on the web where less, in many ways, is actually more. Here are 10 of my favorites.

1. ScribeFire - essential Firefox add-on for bloggers. Allows you to to easily drag and drop formatted text from the Web into your blog(s), post entries, take notes, and optimize ad inventory, directly through the Firefox browser.

2. Firefox - great web browser whose charm lies in all those irresistible add ons that make the whole interwebs experience that much sweeter. Once you pimp out your Firefox, it seriously is difficult to function on anything else. Yes, there are the crashes and other peccadillos, but they're easy enough to overlook especially if you are truly in love.

3. Skitch - this is the best, quick image editor and photo sharing web app that is dead simple to use. For quick screenshots and sharing photos, you cannot beat it. For Mac only though. Sorry.

4. Gmail - I've done away with Outlook and Mail and rely on Gmail for several reasons: free, 7090 MB capacity, integration with Google calendar, Gtalk, great search functionality, and the portability is sweet.

5. Google Reader - free, powerful feed reader which allows you to share items with your friends and slog through all your news feeds as fast as your bleary eyes will let you. Bonus - I'm playing with Feedly (Firefox extension) which provides a magazine like start page of your feeds with complete Google Reader integration and Twitter and FriendFeed and more. So far I like, but Google Reader is still number one for now.

Do you forget stuff? Do you wonder where the heck you put the keys when they're in your right hand? Do you get in the shower with your socks still on? Do you ever get to the bus stop, and realize you can't recall if you've put on pants? We're the only ones? Really? Damn.

We're willing to bet you can still benefit from Tasque, even if you just need reminders about the things normal people put on their to-do lists.

There are a few other to-do list applications in Linux, but most lack the finesse that Tasque is already bringing to the table. Tasque is a newcomer (it got its start at last year's Hackweek), and seems well on its way to becoming a big player.

Tasque (pronounced "Task") is a unified frontend for a number of backends. Honest to god, we don't mean anything obscene by that. What we mean is, it's a very standard graphical interface that works with a number of to-do and database types to make your to-do list dynamic.

Web-based task scheduling and organizing tool Remember the Milk, has just released a full-featured mobile version that's specially optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Just to set your mind at ease: when they say full-featured, they mean full-featured. With the iPhone/iPod Touch optimized version of Remember the Milk, you can:

• View upcoming tasks (due today, tomorrow, and this week)
• View tasks by list (including Smart Lists), tag or location
• Add new tasks and notes
• Complete tasks with the touch of a button
• Edit existing tasks and notes
• Search tasks (supports advanced search operators)
• View handy settings (such as your Inbox email address)

For you home page perfectionists, the webclip for Remember the Milk is also customized for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

One small caveat: the optimized version of Remember the Milk is available exclusively for Pro users. Non-pro users can test the optimized version free for 15 days; after that, you'll need to upgrade to the Pro account ($25 for one year) for uninterrupted access. We suggest paying the fee to avoid those nasty Remember the Milk withdrawals.

Point your iPhone or iPod Touch to http://i.rememberthemilk.com/ to check it out.

[via gHacks]

Remember the Milk, one of the best online task managers out there, has just released a Firefox extension that integrates its task management seamlessly into your Gmail account. One look at Remember the Milk sitting hand in hand with your Gmail and you'll be saying, "this is how integration is done; seamless as cell towers passing off your phone call." Oh, and you'll have a rich, Holmesian accent as well. We can dream, can't we?

Simply download and install the extension, and then restart Firefox. When you load up Gmail, you'll see a new section running down the right hand side of the page (you'll be reminded to login to the Remember the Milk site if you haven't done so already). Once you're logged in, you'll see all of your tasks laid out next to your email messages.
But that's just the beginning.

You can easily customize which tasks you see in your task window by filtering them based on tag, location, or advanced search criteria. You can also create new tasks at any time by typing in the box provided. Make it as detailed or simple as possible; you can include tags, due dates, etc...

And integration with the email next door? Take a gander:

If an email needs to be followed up or responded to, you can star that message, and have Remember the Milk automatically create a reply or follow up task. (Those settings can be edited and customized directly in the Gmail settings, under Tasks). You can also create a task from an email by selecting Create task from the More Actions drop down.

The Remember the Milk Firefox extension also connects to Google Calendar. You know when the little hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and it gets really cold? That's not dead people; that's the moment where Remember the Milk sees that you're adding a task related to an event in your calendar, and automatically sets the appropriate due date. Creepy.

But enough talk! Download the extension, signup for a Remember the Milk account if you haven't already, and get to tasking.

[Via Daily Apps]

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!

How would you like a way to add task lists into Google Calendar? I would love it. Especially since it's now possible with Remember The Milk. With the addition of a RTM calendar, you can easily add new tasks, review your tasks for the day, edit tasks, check out overdue tasks, and see where location-based tasks are with a Google Map.

Adding this feature to your calendar is simple. Click on the Google Calendar link from the Remember The Milk homepage to add the Remember The Milk Google Calendar. When the calendar is added, you will see the Remember The Milk calendar listed in your Other Calendars section. Subscribing to this new calendar is the driving force behind the task list. Once added you can start tasking away. You know you have tasks to complete when there is a blue circle with a check for a specific day. If you use Google Apps for your Domain, adding the tasks with this process does not work. Remember The Milk does, however, have an alternative method that you must follow.