We’ve covered Remember the Milk before to help you manage your lists and tasks. However, Remember the Milk and similar services require registration and a little bit of configuration. What if you’d like to have a reminder sent to you at a certain date/time, sans all the registration headache?
This is where a new site called YourLi.st comes into play. With YourList, you enter in a title and summary of the task, then set up whether the event needs has recurrence. In my testing, setting up a reminder generates an initial e-mail confirming the reminder.
On their front page, the site pledges to not re-use or sell your email address, but I’d recommend using a disposable email address if you are concerned with getting spammed by the new service.
Also, check out the bookmarklet if you want to quickly create reminders easily in your browser.
We’re going to start your Monday morning off right with some essential time savers. These are quick and easy utilities that will save you time and let you get back to more important tasks.
Manage incoming shipping with TrackMyShipments
First off, have you ever had to track shipments from multiple shippers? For example, you have a computer coming from UPS, office supplies that are coming via USPS, and some supplies for a client that happen to be coming from DHL. To keep track of all these shipments, you’d have to keep tabs on each confirmation email from the shipper with the tracking number, copy and paste that tracking number into each shipper’s website, and then you can see roughly where your packages are and when they’ll arrive. This seems like a tedious way to manage this information.
Enter TrackMyShipments. This handy utility will keep track of all your shipments, regardless of which shipper you’re working with or where the packages are coming from. Here’s how it works: simply forward them the shipping confirmation email that contains the tracking number to track@trackmyshipments.com. Then, the utility identifies your email address, the shipping address, and the tracking number. Simply log into the website and see all your shipments in one window. Simple and easy. See the screenshot below of what you’re shipping map will look like.
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