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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.
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Remember The Milk - New: RTM + Gmail gadget goodness
Today we’re launching a new Gmail gadget that can be added to the left nav of any Gmail account, giving convenient access to your tasks alongside your email.
RTM has always offered a very clever Remember The Milk for Gmail Firefox extension, but this excluded users of other browsers, such as myself. This new gadget, enabled by Gmail’s new inherent support for displaying gadgets alongside e-mail, works in any browser. The gadget isn’t quite as functional as its bigger brother (for example: the Firefox add-on allows you to link tasks to e-mail and contacts, much as you would in Office or Apple’s tools in Leopard), but it’s great if you just need to view the week’s tasks, create new tasks, and edit existing tasks. You can even use the same plain English syntax that RTM supports, such as “Finish project 8pm, tag with work.”
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Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Send & Archive
Smart new feature that does just what it says. Next to Gmail’s Send button is now a “Send & Archive” button. After you finish penning a reply, you can send the message and archive the original with one stroke.
Smart idea, especially since the plain Send button is still right next to it. Enable it via Gmail’s Labs preference area.
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Twitter’s email changes are why I love MobileMe inbox aliases so much. Since I use an alias for my Twitter notifications, I didn’t have to tweak my filters. I didn’t even notice the new messages and the address change (from twitter@twitter.com to noreply@twitter, which is what goofed up people’s filters) until I had a chance to read about it hours after Twitter flipped the switch.
Note that MobileMe aliases are not like Gmail’s, which allows you to attach a +anything onto your address (user+mahfilter@gmail.com, for example). MobileMe aliases are truly different addresses—right down to the actual headers in the message—that all arrive in the same, single inbox.
As far as I know, there is no way for a bot to figure out what your actual MobileMe account name is from an alias. If an alias begins catching spam, just kill it and create a new one. It’s security and filtering bliss.
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Official Gmail Blog: Send mail from another address without "on behalf of"
This is excellent news. For quite some time, Gmail has allowed users to send email from alternative addresses. This usually works great, but many recipients will see “from: user@gmail, sent on behalf of your@customaddress.com.” This happens especially with some versions of Outlook, and considering that it is the most popular email client, this is a problem.
Now, Gmail allows users to add custom outgoing server information for each non-Gmail account they have set up. Your messages technically get sent through each address’ official servers, so the unfortunate “on behalf of” bit ceases to be part of the equation. Problem solved.
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