Remember the Milk

I wanted to let everyone know about a great website that I think could be useful to a lot of people.  It’s called Remember the Milk.  Remember the Milk is a task management site that utilizes some pretty nifty Web 2.0 features and reminder applications.  It has a whole slew of uses, for example:

- Let’s say you’re married but normally one person does the grocery shopping.  If you’re like me, as you go through the week you think of things you need to pick up at the store, but you aren’t near the notepad on the fridge at home to write it down.  Enter Remember the Milk.  It’s great for grocery or other shopping lists because you can add things wherever you are, and you can share lists with another user (e.g., your spouse).  That way you have one master list that is accessible from wherever you are (more on that in a moment).

- Let’s say you’re a person and you have a crap load of bills to pay.  Some are due at the beginning of the month, some are due at the end, and some in between.  Remember the Milk makes it easy to create a list of your bills and their due dates so you never forget when you have to pay something.  If you do forget, Remember the Milk will send you incessant reminders until you get it taken care of.  Also, all tasks are able to be set to recurring so they’ll all pop up again next month for you.

- Let’s say you’re married and have household chores that need to be done every week.  Remember the Milk lets you make a list for that too so you won’t forget to vacuum and have your wife pissed at you.

- Let’s say you’re a mid-20’s white guy with very little rhythm who enjoys playing the guitar sometimes.  You’re driving to work in the morning and hear “Meet Virginia” on the radio and think to yourself, “Hey, that’s kind of a catchy tune…I should learn how to play that.”  You can quick grab your phone, make a list called “Guitar”, and add “Meet Virginia” as a task so you remember to learn that song at some point.

In terms of interaction, Remember the Milk offers you a whole variety of options.  Obviously you can get at via the web, but they also have a mobile site that is fairly slick.  You can add tasks via email, via a Firefox bookmark that opens in your sidebar, or the latest addition, via Twitter.  You can also set yourself up to receive reminders via all of those services.

Obviously there is a crap load of other stuff that you can do with Remember the Milk, so you should just check it out.  I’ve only been using it about a week, and it’s already making me more organized.  This morning I got a text message on my phone telling me that I had to buy Toby Keith tickets for the wife today.  Done and done!  Now when I go home tonight, everyone will be all smiles.

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