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Batch Submit Tasks to Remember the Milk
The web-based task manager Remember the Milk is awesome (Lifehacker explains why it's so excellent here). I recently found out, however, that their batch task import feature has a minor flaw.
The problem is that, since the import relies on an e-mail client, and since most e-mail clients automatically wrap lines (usually at around 72 characters), tasks that are longer than the auto-wrap limit will be split over multiple lines and will import as multiple tasks. As RTM explains in their documentation, if you can change your e-mail client not to auto-wrap text, this isn't a problem for you. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to disable the auto-wrap in any of the e-mail clients I had access to. Since I had a bunch of tasks to import, I decided to come up with a way around this limitation.
Here is the quick and easy batch import form I built that will get around this problem. Simply define your Remember the Milk import address, the specific list you want to import tasks into (the list must already exist), and then list the tasks you want to import (one task per line; if you include bullet characters (e.g. * or #) at the start of each line, they will automatically be removed by RTM).
The web-based task manager Remember the Milk is awesome (Lifehacker explains why it's so excellent here). I recently found out, however, that their batch task import feature has a minor flaw.
The problem is that, since the import relies on an e-mail client, and since most e-mail clients automatically wrap lines (usually at around 72 characters), tasks that are longer than the auto-wrap limit will be split over multiple lines and will import as multiple tasks. As RTM explains in their documentation, if you can change your e-mail client not to auto-wrap text, this isn't a problem for you. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to disable the auto-wrap in any of the e-mail clients I had access to. Since I had a bunch of tasks to import, I decided to come up with a way around this limitation.
Here is the quick and easy batch import form I built that will get around this problem. Simply define your Remember the Milk import address, the specific list you want to import tasks into (the list must already exist), and then list the tasks you want to import (one task per line; if you include bullet characters (e.g. * or #) at the start of each line, they will automatically be removed by RTM).