{"id":360,"date":"2014-04-21T01:12:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/productivity-remember-the-milk\/"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T01:07:46","slug":"productivity-remember-the-milk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/productivity-remember-the-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity: Remember The Milk!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am loving <a href=\"http:\/\/rememberthemilk.com\" target=\"_blank\">RTM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I will admit it now. I am a list-maker. I am a BIG list-maker. I make mega lists and they get so big I get overwhelmed and get lost in the volume of what has to be done when.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Plank has tried to get me to stick to the FOUR THINGS philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried lots of to-do list systems, the egg-timer method, the pomadoro technique, Getting Things Done and all types of productivity systems like Franklin Covey, Priority Management and more.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I know: ALL the systems work. It\u2019s just that we (I) do not work the system! And hence we get out of control quickly, forget things, procrastinate, end up in a time crunch and don\u2019t get enough done. You know the story.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rememberthemilk.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/logo2.png?w=1200\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Well, I rediscovered Remember The Milk after flirting with it years ago. And I<!--more--> think I am about to be a convert. Each time I use it I find a new little way it works and that makes it work so much better. Here\u2019s what I love so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can have different lists for different things. (I\u2019m trying to keep these minimal so I don&#8217;t get crazy with 101 different lists)<\/li>\n<li>I can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rememberthemilk.com\/forums\/ideas\/509\/\" target=\"_blank\">move things between lists<\/a> if I get it in the wrong one (select the task, select \u2018more actions\u2019 and select \u2018move\u2019, or <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-us\/firefox\/addon\/a-bit-better-rtm\/\" target=\"_blank\">get the Firefox add-in<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>I can easily set times and dates things are due to be done<\/li>\n<li>it automatically sorts my tasks into \u2018today\u2019 \u2018tomorrow\u2019 etc and I can sort it by a whole lot of other criteria such as priority<\/li>\n<li>I can set up Firefox to automatically load my page on start by using <a href=\"http:\/\/lastpass.com\" target=\"_blank\">LastPass<\/a> to automatically log me in &#8211; that way I start the day with all my tasks for the day as the first thing I see.<\/li>\n<li>I can view my tasks in offline mode so I don\u2019t need to be online. I can also print them off if necessary<\/li>\n<li>One of the best things is I loaded the iPhone app for RTM and now I have my tasks with me wherever I go and if I get an idea I can jot it into RTM and it will sync with my online task list<\/li>\n<li>RTM emails me when a task is due so I won\u2019t forget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s like having a PA, really. So long as I set up the tasks and plug in the info I need I\u2019m good to go! There are a whole lot of other cool things RTM can do as well. I\u2019ve only scratched the surface. The trick is in making the system work for you without becoming a slave to the system. So far so good!<\/p>\n<p>What I also like is that from memory, RTM was the brainchild of some savvy Aussie girl but don\u2019t hold me to that memory chip \u2013 it goes back a while. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/helpful_tips_.jpg?resize=250%2C253\" width=\"250\" height=\"253\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>My Top 7 Productivity Tips<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>If you want to be more productive, you HAVE to find a system that makes sense to you and that you can work with.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t quit on the system too soon.<\/li>\n<li>Find a system that doesn\u2019t rely on you to make it work (Once I enter the data, RTM takes over!)<\/li>\n<li>When your system tells you to do something, do it, reschedule it, delegate it or delete it<\/li>\n<li>When you schedule, don\u2019t overfill your day or you\u2019ll be forever deferring items<\/li>\n<li>When setting up your tasks make them \u2018complete-able\u2019 tasks, ie things you can finish in one sitting &#8211; that may just be a chunk of a bigger task.\u00a0 Tip &#8211; <em>thinking<\/em>, <em>planning<\/em> and <em>researching<\/em> are not complete-able tasks! Draft outline of strategic plan is. Identify 5 topics for future blog posts is. Decide and purchase 2 new domain names is. Get the picture?<\/li>\n<li>Schedule some time every day to review your tasks, add new ones and tick off the \u2018done\u2019 ones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am loving RTM. I will admit it now. I am a list-maker. I am a BIG list-maker. I make mega lists and they get so big I get overwhelmed and get lost in the volume of what has to be done when. Robert Plank has tried to get me to stick to the FOUR&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/productivity-remember-the-milk\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Productivity: Remember The Milk!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,43],"tags":[97,96,95,98],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity","category-tools","tag-productivity-2","tag-remember-the-milk","tag-rtm","tag-time-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3M6th-5O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redhotinternetmarketing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}