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Text to RTM

hawkeyegal says:
Sorry if I've missed it, but I didn't find an answer in search - I'd like to be able to text a message to RTM from my cell phone. Is that possible? I'm not thrilled with some of the voice to text data translations, so I'd rather not do Jott or dial2do. Can't I just text right to RTM like I can to Twitter and Facebook? Thanks!
Posted at 4:32am on July 16, 2009
leah.shalom Power Poster says:
Hawkeyegal,

You can send it through a direct twitter message (d rtm buy milk....). See the many possiblities through d messages on twitter at http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/twitter/

Posted 15 years ago
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
leah.shalom beat me to it. :)

To be clear, you can send such a text message—"d rtm ..."—to Twitter (once you set that up, though it sounds like you have), which will then be added to RTM.
Posted 15 years ago
viewer says:
You can also text your RTM email address. You should see it with your settings.
Posted 15 years ago
viewer says:
Sorry for the double-post, but thanks for mentioning dial2do. I've been unaware of it until now, and I missed out on the Jott free period.

Without digressing further, if you happen to be using a Verizon phone and intend to use the method I previously mentioned be aware of "LF" from the symbols list, which stands for line feed and starts a new line in your text message. You'll need it in order to assign extra details such as due dates, like such:

T: taskname
D: duedate

It took me forever to figure that out, and I hope my mentioning this can help people take advantage of this great feature.
Posted 15 years ago
apgordon says:
Just wondering, is there any way to text in a task AND tag it?

When I'm out running errands, if I think of something I want to do before I head home, I'd like to be able to text the task and tag it '.errand', then retrieve all tasks tagged '.errand'.
Posted 15 years ago
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
apgordon,
You can use viewer's method and just be sure to add S: .errand to your message.
Posted 15 years ago
apgordon says:
@andrewski

Thanks - I thought I tried that, but it could've been that my "s" was lowercase, or... could be that I'm not on a Verizon phone. I'll try the capital "S" and hopefully that'll work.

Thanks!
Posted 15 years ago
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