on Jul 29th, 2008Do not forget to Remember the Milk
I am over obsessed with organizing things that I deal with. I love doing things like organizing my bookmarks, tagging all my photos/blogs/folders, documenting every piece of software - things that other people consider to be a chore. I feel organizing and optimization both add a lot to personal productivity. Ok, to be really honest, I hate having to look for things, especially things that I know I have. I also hate it when it takes me more than 5 minutes to find what I want and being organized is a clever way to take out all the hard work in being lazy. I am also involved in a zillion things at once and usually forget a lot of important events ( think its time to invest in a personal secretary ). For that reason I just love the online calendar, I am currently using the Google Calendar which is just really awesome and wanted a quick way to add things to my calendar. Then I found Remember the Milk
The reminder service is awesome. Firstly it integrates to my Google as well as my outlook calendar. Next, there is a firefox addon that lets you see your task schedule in gmail. And to top it off I can post events from twitter and also my messenger. Its just truly awesome.
The service also understand common sentences and converts it to a date time equivalent. If I write say ” do this day after tomorrow”, it adds do this to two days later. I haven’t yet seen the complete capability of the service, but almost all the english sentences I have typed have ended up in dates. Its pretty clever when you think of it. If you are like me and want to get organized use rtmilk.
Others tools that I use for organizing information around me
1. Outlook and Google Calendar
2. Tagging files in Vista ( not in xp )
3. Personal site search ( which helps me more than it helps others )
4. Post its
5. Reminders on my phone
Tags: rememberthemilk, rtm, organizing, calendar, schedule
Hi Ritesh, wonderfully articulated. I need to synch my nokia calender ( i have almost all the events entered into it ) Can you suggest me how I can synch and load all these into google calender. I did try googling it and found few softwares, but dint have much luck with them.
Hey Chandrashekar,
Remember the milk has a mobile version too. All you need to do is get yourself a rememberthemilk account and go to m.rememberthemilk.com and log in. You can manager all your tasks there. Plus rtm also allows you to view your tasks in outlook, yahoo calendar or G calendar. Hope this helps.
That was a very quick response. Thanks.
I do agree that their mobile version is very handy and i checked it out too, but my question is:
How do i transfer my “already entered” events in Nokia Calendar of my mobile phone to this application?
Transferring each one of them manually is very tedious and not practical as there are large number of entries. Is there any mechanism to export, import etc?
I am really not a big Nokia person, so I wouldn’t really know about such a utility. But I am guessing even if its a manual export, it would be a one time effort. I shall ping you if I come across some utility like that in the near future.