David A. West

Remember The Milk

What a great name for a web-service developed around a simple concept – reminders.

Remember The Milk or RTM as they refer to it on their site is at first appearance a simple way to manage to-do lists.  Great features like ‘tags’, reminders and the ability to create as many lists as you like start to surface only after you start getting into the meat and bones of the service.  Then the true subtle strengths surface. RTM features the ability to share tasks with you coworkers or family!

So on first glance, RTM is pretty cool.  On deeper digging, I found the golden nugget! Upgrading my RTM account to a “Pro” account, unlocked the features that truly make this a must have add-on to our daily routine.  You see, we adopted Google Apps as our primary tool for managing our enterprise email, calendaring and shared documents nearly a year ago.  The one thing that is missing in Google Apps is a great TO-DO list management system.  RTM has solved this with a quick and easy Fire Fox plug-in.

Once the plug-in is installed in your FireFox web-browser (the web-browser you get to choose and choose to get), your RTM to-do list will show right along side of you Gmail in-box. Taking this all a step further, I can now quickly associate my email conversations to an action item in my RTM to-do list.  Later, when I am reviewing my to-do list, I can quickly return to the related email conversation. We have full control over marking list item completed or postponing them to the next day – all from within Gmail.

How much would you pay for this incredible one time offer?  (just kidding)

W a i t…  You also get -

The ability to easily sync your RTM lists with your Blackberry or iPhone todo lists! Yes, that is correct, two way sync to your smart phone!

So, a powerful action list manager, integration with your Gmail interface, and fully synchronized to your smart phone…

Just $25.00 per year!  Or, if you don’t need a ‘Pro’ account, your “Remember The Milk” account is FREE.
Hope you are enjoying a great Summer!

David A. West     Visit “Remember The Milk” now!

PS – I almost forgot to mention that you don’t need an internet connection to use RTM.  Using “Google Gears” you can sync RTM to your desktop and review your action lists while your flying to Hawaii… for business of course.