The Ultimate Remember The Milk Setup for Your Mac
Great things come to those that wait. I love using Remember the Milk for task management (also available at rmilk.com) because it’s simple and easy to use while feature packed at the same time.
If you’re on the mac, it’s even sweeter. One of the many things I wanted was a quick way to post todos to my rmilk account using Quicksilver or some other unintrusive client that I could use like the terminal command line to quickly fire off tasks.
I’ve been using IMified’s messenger client to post tasks for the longest time which was a good solution but the downside was that you needed to keep IM open at all times for the occasional post while opening yourself to distractions from random friends. Not good for productivity.
You can of course email tasks to yourself directly from Quicksilver and though I email todos to myself all the time from my cell phone but it still doesn’t feel like the best solution when I’m at the desk.
I’ve always wished for some kind of Quicksilver integration and now with Twitter integration my wish came true.
Let’s cut to point to make it happen:
- Download the script from:
- Put the script in ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/
- Restart Quicksilver
(create the folder if there isn’t one)
- Add RTM as your Twitter friend here
Now you can Twitter and add tasks to your heart’s content!
Just brink up Quicksilver, type “d rtm” (to send the twitter bot a direct message) and write your tasks.
For bonus points check out the Remember the Milk Widget to access your task lists from the dashboard and checking tasks off.
Gen Kanai wrote:
Do you use a Japanese keyboard? I ask because I’ve never gotten past the hurdle of installing Quicksilver because it conflicts with the default IME changer [apple]+[space] that I always use. I know I can set quicksilver to something else but I haven’t done it.
Posted on 11-Jul-07 at 5:34 pm | Permalink
baron wrote:
I use a Japanese keyboard but I have the CAPS key to switch input modes along with the “kana” and “eisuu” keys flanking the space bar. It’s pretty easy to set the QS hot key to something else. The only inconvenience is when I try to type all caps.
Posted on 11-Jul-07 at 6:14 pm | Permalink
Peety wrote:
Great mac tip !!!
Posted on 12-Jul-07 at 1:19 pm | Permalink
anant wrote:
hey there! I must be doing something wrong coz nothing happens! I bring up Quicksilver, type “d rtm”, write my task, tab, find Tweet and hit Enter.
and nothing happens!
Posted on 15-Jul-07 at 2:10 am | Permalink
irow wrote:
There are few things that I had to do to get this working that aren’t mentioned in this post:
1) Install Growl (find it at versiontracker.com)
2) Remove the extension from the downloaded script (it just be just “Tweet”)
3) Use Safari to log in to Twitter, and save your login information in the keychain. The script uses the Keychain to find your login name and password.
Posted on 16-Jul-07 at 4:32 am | Permalink
Manage Your Tasks at Remember the Milk with Quicksilver « Bitstream wrote:
[...] blog at Baron VC links to a script called “tweet”. Unfortunately the instructions for using the script [...]
Posted on 02-Sep-07 at 10:52 pm | Permalink
spag wrote:
irow: thanks for the help, with 3), it now works. 2) is not necessary though (and i guess growl neither, but it is very convenient)
Posted on 06-Oct-07 at 5:35 am | Permalink
Luke wrote:
Argh I just cannot get this to work. I had to create the Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/ file myself and QS just will not fond the Tweet action. Any ideas?
Posted on 03-Jun-08 at 1:28 pm | Permalink
32ndnote wrote:
Does this work for leopard? I’m right there with Luke… after creating the file, I can’t get things to work. I’m already using growl and have the password saved.
Posted on 27-Jan-09 at 4:17 pm | Permalink
Justin wrote:
For anyone that comes across this post…there is now a Remember the Milk plugin for Quicksilver. Easier install, easier usage. It’s mentioned on the RTM blog here: http://blog.rememberthemilk.com/2007/12/remember-the-milk-for-quicksilver/
and can be downloaded here: http://www.binaryminded.com/qsrtm.html
Enjoy!
Posted on 25-Feb-09 at 9:28 am | Permalink