Remember the Milk

[jack]

I'm sure, ages ago, I added many tasks to the Remember the Milk website. I didn't keep it up, neither with long-term stuff nor with repeating daily stuff, but I was going to go back and triage, and see if anything there (typically long term aspirational goals) ought to be transferred to my master spreadsheet in some form. But now, my apparent account is empty. So, on the good news, there's no tasks hanging around waiting to be done. But on the other hand, I wanted to look it over before deleting it.

I don't know which is more likely -- that I imagined the whole thing, that my account expired and was purged, and then reactivated when I logged in, that I misremembered the account name but had set up a second account while I was investigating the website or something, or that I misremembered the whole website and I was actually thinking of a different one. Which seems most likely?

Comments

[numberland]

Purge and reactive which is kinda fail : http://www.rememberthemilk.com/help/answers/basics/dormantaccounts.rtm

[numberland]

Or, since I've not had a chance to do this before... http://tinyurl.com/3h4qyxr

[jack]

ROFL. Yes, but if I can have beautiful people follow me around and doing my googling for me (with a side helping of either sarcasm or profane words) then so much the better :)

[jack]

For the record, I obviously did google and look for a FAQ, but I used some other keyword (expire?), not realising the one I needed was "dormant".

Of course, you can extend that idea to lmgtfy of just about anything where the asker had a question, but didn't know the keyword they needed was "hume's fork" or "green's function" or whatever -- there's no upper limit to the depth of question that may have a googleable answer _somewhere_ :)

[jack]

Ah, thank you! Hugs. Yeah, that seems weird. I mean, ok, obviously tasks not done for two years are not very useful to anyone, but it seems strange they didn't either (a) send an email notificiation when it went dormant or (b) remove the account permanently. It was a very weird compromise to log in and be told "Congratulations! You don't have anything left to do, why not relax on the beach and bask in the glow of winning the productivity race?"[1] It seems contrary to the idea of getting things done that the tasks just... go away

[1] <understatement>Not verbatim</understatement> :)