Remember Remember The Milk? I spotted this little site a while back. It lets you keep a list of things to do or remember. It seemed like a good idea. Only one thing bothered me. To use this, I had to do one of two things.

1. Keep the website open the whole day, and check it now and again to remind myself of what I have to do. Somehow I find it impractical to keep extra websites open, and then I need to be reminded to check it throughout the day.

2. Open the website every time I want to check my to-do list. Then I need something to remind me to do this every so often.

Both of these methods didn't appeal to me, so I stuck to my previous methods of task management, which didn't always work that well anyway.

Until I found a Remember The Milk add-on for Gmail in Firefox. The add-on displays your to-do items right next to your e-mail inbox. And since I have Gmail open all day anyway, and I'm already used to checking my e-mail every 10-15 minutes, this is ideal. The list of tasks is nicely sorted by due date, and details of each task are displayed when your mouse hovers over it. You can even integrate RTM to the extent that when you star an e-mail, or tag it with a specific tag, a task gets automatically created. This task is also linked to the e-mail in question. This is great for reminders to follow up on a particular e-mail. Adding tasks manually is also a breeze. Instead of typing a title, then selecting a due date, and possibly filling out a whole bunch of other fields, you just type something like “Call John tomorrow”. The task is created with the title “Call John”, it's assigned the due date of tomorrow, and if you have John listed in your Gmail contacts, the task is even linked to him. So when tomorrow comes, and you want to call John, you can easily bring up John's phone number by clicking on a link within that task. And notes can be added to tasks as well. For this you are taken to RTM's site, but this doesn't bother me so much. It's quite easy and quick to do.

This add-on is for Firefox, and is only visible when you have Gmail open. Please note, that it will only work with the new Gmail UI. If you're still using the old one, it will not appear. You can download the add-on here.

I've always wanted to use FeedBurner. And now that we have our blog up and running, I had this possibility. I signed up with FeedBurner, expecting only very basic functionality; a new RSS link, and some stats about how many people are using the feed. But it turned out to be so much more. I'll give you a run-down of some of the features that I've found cool sofar. I haven't worked with it very long, but some features have already proved very handy.

Firstly FeedBurner gives you the ability to very easily "advertise" your blog on any of your other sites. I before I started using FeedBurner, I was thinking about adding a section on our company website that would display the latest entries from our blog. I was getting ready to do some coding for this, but now I didn't have to. FeedBurner has a feature called "Headline Animator". It allows you to generate some code for a banner that automatically displays some of your latest blog posts. And this banner links directly to your feed. Very handy.

Then, you get to customize the appearance of feed items when people view them in their RSS readers. For example, you get to add links like "E-mail this", "Digg this", etc.

Further, there is a Chicklet Chooser that generates a nice subscription link for you to put onto your blog. This is more visible than the little icon up in the address bar of Firefox, and reminds users that they can subscribe to this blog.

Then there are more features, which I haven't tried yet, but which sound really great. For example, you can let users subscribe to an e-mail of your latest posts, or you can integrate Adsense Ads into your feed items.

So if you have a blog, and it's not on steroids yet, head to FeedBurner, and sign up now.

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