Remember the Milk
I am somewhat inclined to mess up all the stuff by forgetting it. When there are too many things to do, this inclination is likely to give me huge collateral damage. So I came to own several notebooks to write down all the tasks on hand. And the new problem is, I always forget on which notebook I wrote something important.
You might be familiar with similar situation, at least second-handedly. As a joke goes, Little Jackie always forget what he has planned to do. So he writes everything down on a notebook. So, last night little Jackie wrote on his notebook, “remember the milk”. And this afternoon, he utterly had no idea what to buy when he entered the near-by store. He did get nervous, because he believed the notebook was with him. And the notebook was not there.
To remind yourself about the milk and other more import stuff, try ,,Remember the Milk” instead of a notebook.
There are many to-do-list tools available on the web, and RTM is not the best one. But it is the most convenient and it adds up new features all the time. Another excellent online task manager is Mangbar, a Chinese website, and English version is also available.
Mangbar does have strong functionality, and is especially suitable for teamworking. You can have “projects” hosted on Mangbar, and projects are further divided as “tasks”, which consists of “steps”. For each project, you can upload pics, docs, notes and share all that stuff with your collegues online. This is really magnificent and all too great, useful and complicated for remembering daily tasks. Remember the Milk is just great enough, quite lite-weight and utterly easy to use. More importantly, RTM provides a lot of considerate features allowing you to sync with your mobile phone and keep all the important things on mind.
The most useful stuff for me, is the service for Gmail (actually it is a Firefox addon, so you need to use Gmail and Firefox.). When you open Gmail, RTM will be loaded on the right side of the interface of Gmail. Now, I can see all the tasks I need to do while I read emails. Keeping everything on mind, and remember the milk. Now I can always stay organized, (or at least pretend to be organized.)
This is how it looks like when RTM for Gmail add-on is installed in Firefox
