Remember the Milk es un gestor de tareas que utilizo desde hace más o menos un año y pese a tener una interfaz web infame me parece el más completo de todos los disponibles actualmente. Lo que para mi lo convierte en un servicio mejor que Wunderlist o los Recordatorios de Apple o Google es que permite organizar las tareas mediante listas inteligentes, añadirles etiquetas, hacerlas recurrentes y establecerles prioridad.
Smart lists are what make Remember the Milk a joy because you can set custom searches using conditional expressions and save them for later access.
I have my tasks classified into 4 different lists:
- Home: The urgent tasks that need to be done today.
- Next: The tasks that I have to do in the next few days and have a high priority.
- Someday: Tasks with medium or low priority without a defined date.
- No rush: Tasks without priority or due date.
This way, I always know which tasks I need to do immediately and which can wait. However, there is a problem: What if I want to use Remember the Milk at work but also want to separate work tasks from my personal life? That’s where the labels come in. If work tasks are tagged, they can later be excluded from the search by entering “NOT tag:XXX”, where “XXX” is the acronym of a porn movie or the name of the tag in question. The search code for the lists would look more or less like this:
- Start: due:today NOT tag:work
- Next: (priority:1 OR dueWithin:”3 weeks of today” OR dueBefore:today) NOT tag:work
- Someday: (priority:1 NOT priority:none) NOT tag:work
- No rush: priority:none NOT tag:work
For the work list it would be exactly the same, except that we would remove all the “NOT” so that only the tasks tagged with “work” are taken in the searches.
If we have other lists, such as “Shopping List” and we want to keep our organization separate from them, we can add the rule NOT list:”Shopping List” so that they do not appear in the search for “No rush”.
Bonus: Remember the Milk is also available for iPhone, iPad and Android and if you are going to use Remember the Milk in Chrome or Firefox you can use the extension “[A Bit Better RTM](https://www.google.es/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=sea&ie=UTF-8&ion=1#sclient=psy-ab&hl=es&safe=off&site=webhp&source=hp&q=a%20bit%20better%20rtm&pbx=1&o q=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&fp=cebf9e8d352c2893&ix=sea&ion=1&ix=sea&ion=1&bav =on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=cebf9e8d352c2893&biw=1347&bih=905&ix=sea&ion=1 “Google search for A Bit better RTM”)”, which brightens its interface a bit.