Third Shelf

Most of the time I find myself running around like a mad thing and inevitably will forget fairly important things. Things that can land me in a fair bit of trouble, if forgotten. Out hunting for a decent task and time management application (I’m sorry todo.txt), I finally found and settled on one, RememberTheMilk.

The feature list and flexibility of this web application is outstanding. For starters, it integrates smoothly with the concepts of Getting Things Done. Here is a post on how to set it up for GTD.

You can add tasks from almost anywhere, be it mobile, Launchy, e-mail or even their own website. There are also a couple of ways to interact with your task lists, such as:

• Remember the Milk Tool – Lets you add tasks rapidly from the system tray
• RememberTheMilk provider for Thunderbird – Lets you access tasks from within Thunderbird
• Add tasks with Launchy – Lets you add tasks directly from Launchy
• Embedding tasks on your desktop – View your tasks embedded into your desktop
• Or, write your own, with their extensive API

For offline access it uses Google Gears, so that you can continue to work with your tasks offline, and then synchronize when you are online again!

Some of the features that just make it that much better, is that it supports:

• SMS reminders
• E-mail reminders
• Recurring tasks
• Multiple lists
• Tags for tasks
• Weekly planners
• Locations integrated with Google Maps
• Synchronize to BlackBerry and Windows Mobile
• Notes on tasks
• Contacts with whom tasks can be shared
• etc…

Well done to the Australian Team!