4 Reasons To Use Remember The Milk With Gmail and GCal

Remember the Milk is an awesome task management app which let’s you manage your tasks from anywhere. It requires you to create an account at their website and then gives you a world of options which can help you manage your tasks productively. And best of all it’s free !

This software can also integrate with your mobile phone and various other apps like twitter, Gmail and  Google Calendar. Today I’d like to list the advantages of using this neat app with Gmail and Google Calendar.

1. Add Tasks Easily

If you spend a lot of time with gmail and gcal then using another to-do list for remembering tasks would be a waste of time. The remember the milk firefox extension for gmail and gcal lets you easily add tasks and also update or postpone them with one click.

It goes a step further and lets you connect your tasks with email. As they mention, ” Say you have an email that requires a follow up, or contains a task that you need to remember — you might star this message, or maybe label it with “To Do”. RTM can automatically create a task when you star a message, or label a message with a specific label. ”

2. Connect tasks with events and contacts

This is another neat feature of this app. You can connect your tasks with google calendar events or gmail contacts. It automatically detects if the task has anything similar to a google calendar event or it relates to a contact and adds it likewise.

You can also email a task easily to a contact.

3. Email the tasks to your yourself

What do you do if you can’t access gmail or gcal but need to add task ? For example, my previous workplace had quite stringent internet rules and didn’t allow us to access google accounts. Well, remember the milk has the solution to that too.  It provides an email address for every account to which you can email tasks. Here are the 2 help topics which would help you do this :-

1. Your RTM email address

2. Ways to email tasks

 4. Makes You More Productive

Although Google Calendar lets you add tasks, events and also email them, I’ve found that Remember the milk (RTM ) is much more comprehensive and also comes with a lot more features. It lets you manage your tasks in a better manner and also let’s you access your tasks from rememberthemilk.com. It’s simple, fast and an easy to use to do-list / task management app which makes you more productive.

So what’s your opinion? Have you used it ? What’s your experience ?