Bread, Eggs, Paper Towel… Milk

Remember The Milk is a simple web application that manages your to-do lists for you. I looked at it some time ago, and decided after a bit of play that it wasn’t for me. Nothing wrong with it, but not what I needed.

But now things are looking different and I’m back experimenting with it again. What caught my eye was the recent announcement that Remember The Milk (hereinafter RTM) was making use of the new Google Gears to function offline as well as online. Add to that integration with Google Calendar, a widget for your Google homepage — okay, okay: iGoogle — and I’m likely to make my lists with RTM for a while at least.

You can have differently categorized lists, different priorities, and various reminders. You can mail in tasks, manage them from Google Calendar, share them or publish them. And if a task involves a location, you can place it on a Google Map.

This is not for your BB’d up practitioner or a dedicated MS Outlook user, perhaps. But it might appeal to others as a simple but powerful and practical way of getting things done.