Less than 2 weeks after my first test run of Remember the Milk, my mobile world has been changed forever.

Since Milk wouldn’t run on my trusty Treo, it has now been retired and – at long last – there’s an iPhone in my bag. Seems the folks at RTM should have gotten commission on the sale.

I’ve weaned myself from desktop-driven Outlook Tasks and am now living 100% on Milk – no matter where I am.

I used to make fun of my husband for the amount of time he spends ‘playing with his phone.’ I’ve  just spent the weekend doing the same thing, and I am one happy – and productive – camper. Now he and I are sharing tasks through Milk and talking about standardising our tags so our smartlists will play nicely with each other. Our poor children have such geeks for parents.

Besides Remember the Milk, here were my other must-haves on the Home screen: Outlook calendar sync, Zoho and Google Docs for omni-access to our company info, Plaxo for personal contacts, Kodak Gallery for the pix and a nifty Hong Kong Weather app for typhoon season.

I’ve only had one hiccup with my new set-up: My kids selected the ringtone (a very loud ‘old phone’) and SMS alert (an equally loud old car horn), and I hadn’t worked out how to set the phone to silent before going into my first meeting today – during which I received 2 calls and 3 text messages. I do know how to switch it off now – ahem.

Filed under: Tools