How I Recreated Things in Remember the Milk

I‘ll admit it – I’m a tweaker. As an unabashed nerd girl with N.A.D.D., I spend a lot of time chasing after the next Shiny New Thing, and there is nothing more tweakable to me than task management systems.

I’m not a staunch adherent to the GTD system, preferring a more free-flowing way of managing tasks, so when I came across Cultured Code’s Things back when I first got an iPhone, I swallowed hard and coughed up the £5.99. This was the app I had seen on the home screens of so many tech writers, designers and developers. And oooh, it is so pretty!

Seriously. Look at it. Even the icon looks like it belongs on the home screen, and that is one of the things I take into consideration when picking my apps (I am also slightly shallow in my shiny-hunting).

But the development of this app has been slow and features seem to take a long time to show up. Recently, I was overjoyed to see that Things has finally implemented repeating tasks on the iPhone (I have no Mac to sync repeating tasks from), but it doesn’t get away from the issue of ubiquitous access to my tasks. For that, I have been using Remember the Milk.

The flexibility of Remember the Milk is both a boon and a drawback. For those of you with tweakaholism, enter with caution. This nifty little service can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. For me, the tweaking became a quest to recreate my favourite features of Things in Remember the Milk, namely, the Next and Someday lists.

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