Remember the Milk – Find and Remove Unused Tags

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Over the years, I have accumulated nearly 400 tags in Remember the Milk, as I have changed from one tagging system to another while learning how to best use the service and while cycling through various personal projects. Many of these tags are no longer used.

Is there a quick way to find all (or large batches of) the unused tags in my account, so that I can remove them relatively quickly?

Best Answer

Go to Settings->Tags, mark the checkbox next to each tag to be deleted, and then select "delete tag" from the dropdown menu at the top of the list. You can see if a tag is in use (for either complete and/or incomplete tasks) by hovering over the name of the tag.

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How to automatically share certain tasks in Remember the Milk

Though that would be awesome - You cannot share a Smart List. You can share a List, or numerous tasks but not a Smart List.

Here is how I would do it.

Search for your tag

tag:grocery

And either select all your task you want to Share and just share that way (I think you already know this way) The other way, which I use it, is the List. So move your tasks tagged with grocery to a List called Grocery

Then sharing it with allow your friend to change items in your list.

There is a use case for this that worked for a couple.

My husband and I use a shared RTM list for our grocery shopping. Each of us can put items on the list when we think of it from either work, home or via our smartphones and whoever is doing the shopping always has an up-to-date list. It works especially well as we often stop in to pick up one or two items, but we can also see what else needs to be bought. We use the 'priority' function to separate our items into the general areas of the supermarket, to make it easier to sort through a long list.

As an added bonus, if we are shopping together we can split up and tackle the shopping from different ends of the supermarket. We 'complete' each item on our phones as it goes in the trolley so we don't double up or miss anything. It probably looks a bit strange to other people when we stand in the vegetable section staring at our phones, but it really works well.

source of use case : Tip & Tricks Forum morgan.parker

The difference between Evernote and Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk is a task list application first. The notes are not the focus here and the options are limited when it comes to taking notes.

Evernote is a note taking application and it specializes in that field.

If you need to take notes, use Evernote (or another note taking app but this one is good), if you need to manage tasks/todos and attach notes to those tasks, use Remember the Milk.