2 steps to an easy-to-use tasklist right on your desktop

August 28, 2008 in General Nonsense

Ever wanted to have a task-list that you could easily synchronize between several environments — AND have it easily accessible on your desktop all the time?  Well, look no more.

This article will walk you through setting up an easy-to-use task list (Remember The Milk) right on your windows desktop.

Step one: Get an RTM account

The first step will be getting a Remember the Milk account, if you haven’t already.  This is pretty easy (and free!) — you just need to head on over to their sign-up page and sign up for an account.

Step two:  Add the Active Desktop item

Next, you’ll need to right-click on your desktop and select ‘Properties’.  You should have a window called ‘Display Properties’ pop-up, with the ‘Themes’ tab selected automatically.  Click on the ‘Desktop’ tab.

On the Deskop tab, click the ‘Customize Desktop…’ button (hint: It’s at the bottom of the page).  You should have a window called ‘Desktop Items’ pop-up, with the ‘General’ tab selected automatically.  Click the ‘Web’ tab.

On the ‘Web’ tab, you’ll see a list of Active Desktop items that have already been setup and can be shown/hidden on your desktop.  (Most likely, you’ll just see a single item in the list, “My Current Home Page” that is unselected).

Click the “New…” button and enter the following URL in the “Location:” textbox that appears:

http://rememberthemilk.com/services/modules/googleig/

Press “OK” on each of the 3 window layers to finally go back to your desktop.  You should now see a window on your desktop for your task list that looks something like this:

Tips:

• Use Internet Explorer and login to Remember the Milk, selecting the option to ‘Remember me on this computer’
• You can move the Active Desktop Window around by dragging the title bar that appears when you hover over the window
• Read more about Active Desktop