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Remember the Milk (RTM) is a free online task/time management tool which allows you to manage your to-do lists from any computer or cell phone with internet access. With RTM you can:

  1. Create as many different to-do lists as you need and call them whatever you like. By default RTM will come with a personal, study, and work list but you can easily delete these if you don’t have a use for them.
  2. Assign levels of priority to tasks. RTM will then colour code your tasks according to the priority you have assigned them.
  3. Add tags to tasks. You could for example tag a number of tasks with the word ‘Shopping’ and then you could easily find all these tasks even if they are from different lists using the search feature.
  4. Easily find the tasks you want. With RTM you can search though your tasks by priority, status, location, estimated time to complete, due date or tags.
  5. Receive reminders about your tasks when you want, how you want. You can set RTM to remind you at the time tasks are due or a specified length of time before they are due. You can receive these reminders by email or Instant Messenger (MSN, Skype, Jabber, Google Talk etc).
  6. Create Smart Lists. Smart Lists are created according to a set of criteria you define and automatically update as your tasks change. For example you could create a Smart List of all your tasks due this week and this list would automatically update itself accordingly.
  7. Email tasks. When you sign up to Remember the Milk you are given a unique RTM email address. You can, if you want, use this email address to add tasks to your lists by email. All you need to do is put the name of the task as the subject and then put the other details in the body of the message e.g. ‘List: Work’ and ‘Tags: report’.
  8. Share lists with others. If you need to share a to-do list with others then you can send them an email invite.

These are just some of the great features of Remember the Milk. The only downside to using this tool is that it will take to a while to figure out how to use it. Reading the three page Getting Started help guide is a must. To learn more about Remember the Milk click here.