Remember The Milk
Juggle tasks easily with simple organizing app
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Remember The Milk
Pros: Clean user interface puts the focus on learning to organize tasks effectively.
Cons: There's no direct help geared toward teen users who may need guidance on how to effectively use a task-management tool.
Bottom Line: It's full of potential as a free, easy task-management tool for helping teens learn organization skills.
As with any task-organizing app, Remember The Milk is only as useful as the person entering and monitoring the progress and completion of tasks. But if used well and often, this app can help teens and teachers stay on top of everything that needs attention. While the option to use this app across many platforms (iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Outlook, and more) makes it easy to add and check lists often for up-to-date information, it also adds to the complexity of using this as a tool, especially if more than one person is adding items to the list.
In the classroom, this free app can be a starting point for practical life skills lessons in organizing that students can take with them beyond high school.
Remember The Milk is a task-organizing app that can help teens and adults juggle long to-do lists, complicated schedules, and multiple project deadlines.
First, create an account (users must be 13 or older) by registering your name, email address, username, and password. On iOS devices, swipe through task list components, divided into areas that work like stacked index cards for lists (today, this week, etc.), tasks, and then notes for each task. The Android app features a tap menu rather than swipe. Choose a list for your task, tap the plus sign or Add Task, and type the task. A row of potential tags and options will appear, and you can choose what info you want to include for that task, its priority, and more. Add a note with extra info for the task, if desired. Tap the check mark when a task is completed.
Used correctly and consistently, this simple app can be an incredible tool for students to use for building self-direction, goal-setting and goal-achievement skills. Even though it wasn't created specifically for learning, the easy user interface allows teachers and students to focus on using it as a tool for task management, prioritizing time, and categorizing items within a system. Simply type in the name of the tasks and organize/tag according to name, list (work, home, school, etc.), priority, due date, and time. A task can use all the aforementioned categories or just be listed by name and list. Task lists can be accessed via many different mobile devices as well as the related website and more sources such as Google Calendar. Users can input tasks even if they don't have wireless access at the moment of entry. For really long task lists, there's even a keyword search option. Complete and Incomplete tabs make clear what's left to do. It can provide a little rewarding lift when users can check off a task, marking it as complete.
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This app is very convenient and easy to navigate. I use it for my own personal use for my day to day busy schedule. I have become more efficient in my time management skills and organization. The only part that was time consuming was inputting my events and reminders into the calendar. I have it linked up to my Google Calendar.