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Supercharge Remember the Milk task manager with browser plugins
Don't you just love it when you find a way to make something good even better? Remember the Milk is a fantastic online task management application, and here are a couple of browser extensions that make it even better if you're using Firefox or Chrome.
Both of these extensions have existed in some form in Firefox for a while, but they have both recently been released for Chrome, and they're worth investigating for either platform if you haven't already.
A Bit Better RTM
Remember the Milk's primary view is through its web app (though you can access it via email, mobile, Twitter, iPhone... the list goes on and on), and unfortunately the web app leaves a little to be desired. The layout is mostly fine, but the biggest problem I have with the site is the use of tabs across the top for your lists instead of a simple list down the side.
Heavy RTM users find they can easily have 20 or 30 lists, particularly when you include smart lists, and the tab metaphor does not scale well. A Bit Better RTM (Chrome / Firefox) solves this problem by changing the layout exactly as I described, adding the ability to reorder your lists, and adding some nice keyboard shortcuts for navigating your lists that match up well with the keyboard shortcuts you know from Gmail and Google Reader.
Remember the Milk for Gmail
Speaking of Gmail, if you're a user of both Remember the Milk and Gmail, you need to drop everything and grab a copy of the official Remember the Milk for Gmail extension (auto-detects Chrome & Firefox), which was created by RTM themselves.
Though RTM does offer a Gmail gadget that will run in any browser, Remember the Milk for Gmail is much easier to use and more prominently displayed in your inbox. It allows you to do almost anything you'd want to do in your task list right from Gmail, and adds the ability to create new tasks from emails by either starring them or labeling them with a specific label that you can set in the settings.
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Subscribe to commentsrichardJan 27th 2010 1:51AM
I have been using RTM in the past, but THE reason to kill it was the fact that the gmail plugin is not working properly. At least not all the time. As soon as gmail roles out an update (which happens a LOT) RTM needs to adjust their plugin. This causes the problem that you THINK that RTM is working and you are adding stuff to your todo list but you are not as RTM does not yet support that latest version of gmail.
After this happened to me for more than 10 times, I killed RTM. This integration with gmail was vital to me
Richard
gsarigJan 27th 2010 2:59PM
I prefer to keep this url on my Firefox bookmarks toolbar: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/modules/googleig/
and set the option "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" to active.
That way, I keep the RTM on the browser's sidebar, no matter which website I am visiting.
DorianFeb 17th 2010 10:16PM
I stop using RTM a years ago because it didn't seem to have any clear future. I see it has a lot of improvements. However, I've moved to using OmniFocus which a crazy powerful app. Someone make it possible to sync OF online and i'll get it in a heart beat.
Jason ClarkeFeb 18th 2010 2:06PM
I use OmniFocus too, and it syncs online between multiple instances of OmniFocus and the OmniFocus iPhone app. It just doesn't have a web based interface - is that what you were referring to?
DorianFeb 18th 2010 2:52PM
yea, something like what 1password would be amazing. Syncing to RTM or some other web server would be great. I know their are scripts/etc that can hack together something but a lot of them are too much work for me.