Remember the Milk

I recently discovered a task manager that is making me become more efficient with my horrible ‘to do’ list habits.

Checkout Remember the Milk. I heard Leo Laporte mention it on one of his excellent podcasts.

Remember the Milk allows you to manage tasks online or via mobile interface. There is a lot of flexibility built into this application:

• Organize by category or tags
• Sort on various criteria
• Enter tasks via email or the online/mobile interface.
• Publish to iCal or Google Calendar

The mobile URLs are:
http://m.rememberthemilk.com — Mobile-friendly interface
http://i.rememberthemilk.com — iPhone interface (requires Pro account)

I’m very impressed with the flexibility and intuitiveness of this application. For example, if I want a task to repeat, I could type in the repeat field “every 25th” or “every 3rd Sunday” rather than using a clunky calendar and checking of boxes for recurrence.

I’ve been thinking of ditching my Palm Treo 650 to switch to the Apple iPhone. I really love my Treo, but I’m starting to lust over the iPhone. A few things have kept me from switching, a maor one being the lack of a sufficient task (”to do”) application. This application has removed another barrier for me.

So how do you view your tasks offline? The desktop browser version has the ability for an offline mode. That doesn’t exist yet for the mobile versions, but it seems that the developers are looking at a solution.

Definitely check it out. It’s free to sign-up and use the mobile edition. The iPhone edition requires a Pro account at $25/year - very reasonable considering the features the developers have in their road map.

Please let me know if you like it, or if you have other productivity recommendations.
Thanks.
-Roland

Screenshots:
Mobile interface:



iPhone interface: