Remember The Milk Reviews

There’s a lot to love about RememberTheMilk. Multiple types of lists, flexible, the ability to share lists with friends, family, co-workers... all cool.

The problem is that most of the useful features and controls are only available when you spin up your desktop computer.

NOT. FROM. THE. PHONE. APP.

As an example, I would like to add my husband to the grocery list. But RememberTheMilk won’t let me do that. Go home and use the computer, because I can’t do this simple task while I am out running errands. Okay. He’s added. (Took me two days to remember while I was actually in front of the computer, but that sort of thing is why I need a list app anyway, right?)

He gets to the store to buy groceries. Pulls out his phone and opens RememberTheMilk . No list! Why not? Well, he was supposed to remember to turn on his computer and accept the list. He can’t do that (or even see that it needs to be done) from RememberTheMilk .

Does this make any sense? No. It does not.

If and when the RTM team ever gets their act together to make an app that actually works on a mobile device, I might revisit their work.

Meanwhile? Forget it.

I’ve been using RememberTheMilk Store since its inception- maybe posted 3 reviews. This will be four. As for RememberTheMilk ? It functions as intended, no better or worse than others in RememberTheMilk Store. I moved to RTM from Todo which worked great but was clunky for simple tasks. After using remember the milk for a few days I paid for a subscription and went pro. A year later they sent me an email staying the price went up 25% and it was time to upgrade because my subscription expires today. Great customer service- send an expiration reminder on the day the subscription expires. The pro features were shut off before I could even get to my desk at work and copy my subtasks over to the notes area. Typical cash grab apps. They give you subpar features just a bit better than the free apps online and constantly raise fees. I’ll go back to TODO and enjoy RememberTheMilk I only had to pay for one time.

RTM does a good job of honoring recent Google interface standards. For example it has a big circle with a plus sign to let me add a task.

Unfortunately it completely ignores the use of gestures. Yes, it has two primitive strokes - stroke left and stroke right. Those “complete” a task or let “postpone” it.

However, how delete with a stroke? It’s as though they never looked at a modern app such as, Clear. No delete stroke.

Well, what about creating a new task? Nope. You have to tap through a series of awkward choices. No stroking.

Switching lists? Of course there’s a stroke, right? Nope.

Switching views? In your dreams.

The bottom line it is much slower and more awkward to use than it should be.

Additionally, and this may be my fault, the View mechanism seems awkward. I spent a while trying to figure it out. Help pages are *pathetic*! I gave up after a fair amount of effort.

I suggest you go find a To Do app that keeps up with the exciting and excellent use of stroke gestures, deep press, and all the other simplifying ideas that Apple has added to iOS.

P.s. I just remembered - I could not even drag items to reorder the list. Even if there is a “sort manually” options (which I could not find), there aren’t drag bars. I invite the developers, again, to go check other cutting edge apps and keep up.

It’s a bit annoying to set up (can’t be set up entirely from phone, you have to use desktop for the features that you want) and I wish having a reminder was the default setting with an option to turn off. I spent hours putting in my gardening and summer chore plans and none of them notify me at all because I didn’t manually add and set a reminder which takes extra time on top of the already time consuming task of making the item. Plus you have to use a desktop to enable reminders. So far apple reminders has been more functional for me but they are too easily dismissed. Not sure if I’ll use RememberTheMilk going forward, pretty disappointed in it. The user interface is also very clunky looking.

Between the annoying way to have to input everything, the annoying way you have to set reminders and basically the annoying way you have to do everything on RememberTheMilk makes it not worth it to me. Plus they clearly take your data. They should be paying you for your data.

RememberTheMilk is fairly simple but I did not like that when I added a new item to the list it defaulted to the bottom of the list where I could easily forget about it. I couldn’t figure out how to make the items add to the top of the list. Also, I could organize by priority or by drag and drop but I could not use both at the same time which I found a bit frustrating. I like to keep a living list that I move around a lot to keep organized. I did not find that part very easy. But it was very easy to add new tasks, which is important. RememberTheMilk had a lot of features without being over complicated, but ease of use was not completely up to par for me. And extra points for the cute name and logo.

It doesn’t make sense to me how you can have an app to help you organize your to do lists, but not be able to organize it automatically by the time you need to do it. It’s also super annoying to set the time something needs to be done if you’re setting it at the same hour it currently is. For example, I set a task for today, last night at 11 pm. I wanted to do the task today at 11:15 am, but in order to set the time I had to first set it to 12, save it, and then go back and set it for 11:15. Utterly baffling and incredibly frustrating. I’ll keep using RememberTheMilk in the meantime but will keep looking around for something better.

I took a break from using RTM because I wasn't able to receive notifications for my tasks through my phone. Recently, I realized that I missed RememberTheMilk , so I re-downloaded it and discovered the notification feature! Finally! I thrive on reminders, and now that I can set them up, I am a happy camper and will be more productive. Now, the only other thing that kept me from giving the update/app the five stars is the inability to quickly delete tasks I no longer need. Selecting individual tasks can get time-consuming, especially for someone who really likes to outline her day! Add that as well, and we are GOLDEN.

I love using RememberTheMilk. It's so convenient to be able to assign chores, homework, and tasks to every member of the family. My kids can put a school supply on my shopping list and my husband and I can share the responsibilities of running our business. When you can't call or text someone, RememberTheMilk is so helpful to get things delegated.

I gave it 4 stars as an average. The usefulness is beyond 5 stars. But I'm getting sick of having to pay subscription fees for every last thing! (We keep our old laptops around because we own all the software.) So another $40 subscription fee brings the stars down.

Really do love RememberTheMilk though.

Overall, expensive but very useful, especially for syncing among multiple devices or people. My biggest complaint, and why I don't give it five stars, is there are frequently too many touches required to do something. For example, deleting an item requires four touches: Select the item, touch the three dots in the upper left corner of the screen, select delete, and confirm. Not good design.

Another complaint is management of completed tasks. Rather than allowing you to select multiple tasks for a group delete or offering a delete all option, you have to individually delete every item you want. Also a case of needing to improve the UI.

I've been using RememberTheMilk for years, probably since 2010. I've tried other apps, and nothing works as well as this one! I love the ability to set repeating tasks, to set priorities, and to create my own lists. It's simple, never glitchy, and easy to use. It's great for managing my life!! I can't rave about RememberTheMilk enough.

Plus, the support team is so helpful and nice! Always go to them before writing a bad review because I've found it's usually user error (aka me making a mistake in RememberTheMilk haha) versus anything wrong on their part.

The new RTM is indispensable. Overall, this has to be the best manager out there, even with strong competition from Wunderlist and Todoist. It feels like RTM is built by a smaller team. They aren't always the best at marketing, and they took a long time to update their app to compete with the other modern task managers, but once they did it was completely worth it. I (still) use MilkSync with Outlook to capture tasks from my email, and I also love that they have maintained Siri capture support. With the combo of using Launchy on my Windows laptop for work, this means that I have quick capture that is as fast as paper and pen, no matter what I'm doing. I think this is the area where most task managers fail, but RTM just shines. My wish list for improvements would include rich text notes support when transferring tasks to and from Outlook, and honestly to include some of the cool graphic customization options available on the web app. Thanks Bob!!

I’ve tried and use several task and project managers in conjunction with my various companies, Wrike, Teamwork, Trello, Basecamp, etc. We’ve also used high end CRM applications. I can honestly say RTM is the very best, simple yet powerful, fantastic GUI, manages all my work, my companies, and my life. My go to for reminders, for lightweight project management, and to manage my life. Works great on a desktop, even better on the iPad with the pencil, long press on tasks to change priority, date, tags, lists, etc. This is a “Gillette” situation, I liked it so much I tried to buy the company but it’s apparently run by a group of techies from around the world that like doing this. It’s apparent they do, works great, not commercialized, and not continually dis-improved to an over complex mess. RememberTheMilk can’t be beat and it doesn’t get the credit it deserves.

Just downloaded this on a whim. I've used Todoist, Wunderlist, Omnifocus 2, Things 3, 2Do, and paper planners before but never tried RTM. Since I'm addicted to dabbling in different apps I decided to give it a try. The interface has come a long way. I'm finding the web and iOS apps to be snappy, easy to use, and have a feeling of flexibility and understated power. Feels faster to sync and more flexible than Omnifocus, easier to navigate than Things 3, less fiddly than 2Do, and most importantly of all, more powerful than Todoist because it has START DATES!! iOS app look and feel is simple, clean, polished, and friendly.

Really pleasantly surprised. Also love the monkey mascot.

RememberTheMilk was recommended to me by a career counselor at my law school, and it helps me keep my life under control and to manage my stress.

The lists are excellent, since whenever I have a complicated task with a lot of subparts, I can break it up under a list and spread it out over several weeks. I have about eight lists, and they populate their tasks to the daily and weekly planners every day. So I can see what I need to get done for the eight or so sources of responsibility in my life, without having to worry about anything getting away from me. And I'm able to redistribute things easily when I have too much on my plate.

Plus I was able to create a personal fulfillment list, put activities there that I enjoy, and treat them as part of the things that I need to get done every day, if possible. So it helps me build more "me" time into my schedule and I'm much happier for it.

The only thing better would be if it integrated with Yahoo! calendar like it does with Gmail. Also, I had to pick one device to use it on, since I found that when I paid for continuous syncing and tried to use it on my iPhone, iPad, and laptop, the sync would not work well. It actually duplicated a lot of entries. But those are just a couple of side issues, on the whole, RememberTheMilk is really a lifesaver!

This is a very efficient task list system once you find and learn all the functions. There are lots different ways to accomplish the same organizing step. You can find the best organizing process for yourself rather than being locked into a rigid process. The smart lists are perfect - the ability to track tasks from multiple perspectives is very important for me, so those are the most useful feature for me. It definitely takes some experimenting and time to learn the interface, but like I said, once learned it makes perfect sense and is very efficient. Very smart design. I can’t imagine going back to any other system.

I have tried them all. Wunderlist, My To-Do and numerous others. They all failed one way or another. Mostly synchronizing problems. Remember The Milk has a perfect record. Have used it quite a while and it never failed me. I use it several times a day. Works great from computer to phone and phone to computer. I had a question on its use and customer support was right there with an easy to understand answer to my question. When you try this application your search for a reliable To-Do List will be over.

I have ADHD and RememberTheMilk allows me to take my to-do list with me, break larger tasks into smaller tasks (pro is worth it just for this feature!) and provides a little dopamine boost when you’ve completed the list for the day! (Love the milk carton)
You can minimize what is on the screen or break it down to what your needs are.
In addition, their support team is outstanding and was emailing with me at almost 10pm ET to make sure the issue was resolved.
I’m so glad I stumbled upon RememberTheMilk!
THANK YOU!

Ever since I started using this application as a substitute for multiple pieces of paper, I have become much more efficient about getting things done on a daily basis. And if you are afraid of losing a paper format for your to do list, you can always print the list from your computer. Regardless, it is very easy to add Chores to the list and gain satisfaction when removing them electronically. You'll never regret making the decision to use this application and be forevermore organized and productive!

I have been a RTM Pro subscriber since 2009. It has only gotten better, more powerful, more, reliable, and more useful in that time. What I love the most is that it hasn’t gotten overly complicated in the process. It still stretches from simple todo list app to backlog project management without losing what at the core are some really good ideas.

There is a lot of research on how much space in your brain is used up trying to remember things you need to not forget. Being able to capture those things somewhere that is reliable and will pop them back up when they are important is what lets your brain release them and use its energy for something else. RTM’s elegant capture of tasks literally gives you your brainpower back! 🧠 Worth every penny!

I've experimented with many todo list apps out there and this one is the best. I'm actually getting stuff done now and it's RememberTheMilk that's making this possible. When I first got this I went to the blog and just read things for fun and what happened is many ah-ha moments where I thought "oh wow I can do that?!" If you invest the time learning what it can do you'll want to utilize RememberTheMilk to its full potential and then in end you'll make things happen too.

Update: it's my second year in a row for the premium upgrade and let me tell you it's worth every penny! I'm a frugal guy, so at first I hated the thought of that annual payment. But it breaks down to a few bucks a month so that's not so bad. Buy 'em a coffee once a month kinda thing. Now I'm completely fine with it because RememberTheMilk really is so superior to other to-do apps. I've wasted countless time trying other apps (even paid ones) and in the end I always come back to RTM. This update is a reminder to myself to stop thinking about the possibility of an alternative, consider the payment a simple cup of coffee to my great developer friend once a month, and enjoy RTM for the rest of my life!!!!