Remember The Milk tip for reminders: use Twitter for ubiquity

I’m a big fan of both Remember The Milk (RTM), a very well-integrated, web-based task management product, and Twitter, one of the most popular microblogging/social status services available. One of RTM’s best features is that it can remind you about a task via any number of methods such as e-mail, SMS, chat, or even Twitter.

This flexibility with reminders can get even more useful, though, if you have Twitter set up to SMS you when receiving a direct message from another user. If you set up RTM to remind you via Twitter, you’ll get your reminders no matter where you are: either as a DM in whatever Twitter desktop client you use, or as an SMS on your mobile phone when you’re out ‘n about. I find this ubiquity to be quite useful for task management, not to mention unparalleled.

It seems like every other week I discover a new feature or figure out a new way that RTM can bend and flex to the various ways I need to work. I don’t get this excited about web services very often because I typically prefer the integrated nature of desktop software, and truthfully, I do use some desktop apps for other task management stuff. but Remember The Milk is an exceptional service that has an amazing assortment of integration with the desktop and other web services, as well as a tremendous amount of flexibility to bend for just about any workflow. I highly recommend it.