Thursday, September 27, 2007

The curious case of Remember the Milk

Lots of folks -- myself included -- mistakenly described Remember the Milk as another online calendar. In fact, it only manages tasks. For calendaring, it syncs with Google Calendar. There's no conventional way in Remember the Milk to express events with start and end time. It's possible to express tasks of a certain duration that are due at a certain time. But it's not clear at all how you would do something as conventional as inviting someone else to the same "task" (event) unless, perhaps, that event originated in Gcal. Maybe I just need to play with it some more. And now I have a reason to do it. Remember the Milk just announced the ability to sync with Windows Mobile, for $25 a year. It's another tantalizing quarter-step forward for those of us who want to sync and publish our calendars sans Outlook or Google Calendar. (And Remember the Milk already works offline, so there's another thing in its favor.)

1 comment:

Scot McSweeney-Roberts said...

But it's not clear at all how you would do something as conventional as inviting someone else to the same "task" (event) unless

I'm not sure if this is 100% what you mean, but if the person you are sending the the task to is in your RTM contact list, then select the task(s) you wish to send and then select send to in the more actions drop down.