Thing 20: GoogleDocs, Zoho Writer, Remember the Milk

I've been opening up other people's GoogleDocs that they have been sending to me for a while now and I just assumed they were standard word processing docs. After experimenting, I'm starting to realize what cool things these are. My daughter wrote a script with a friend online for a school project, and I'm anxious to collaborate more with colleagues in the same way. The excel spreadsheet portion really intrigues me but I'm not sure yet how I would use it. Maybe for recording reference transaction statistics across departments? The templates in GoogleDocs are free and could be helpful for patrons who are new at typing resumes. 


Zoho looks like I might use it to format my blog posts better, or to quickly change a document into .pdf format. It's sort of like the old text only RTF programs--can be converted to other formats, easy to access from any computer, and can be quickly shared.  Edesk Online is also interesting to play with. 


I really liked Kelly's recommended article and I want to spend significantly more time playing with all of these choices.

Remember the Milk. Wikipedia has a whole list of products that can be integrated with this, and I pasted it here so that I would remember all of the other new products I still need to try!

Remember the Milk offers integration with various other products and services:

• iGoogle: the user-designed Google homepage, where you can choose and organise content in the form of 'gadgets'. A Remember The Milk gadget can be added to one's iGoogle homepage. This gadget includes the capacity to add, edit, postpone and check off tasks.
• Google Calendar: Remember the Milk can be added to the Google Calendar online application to permit users to access their Remember the Milk account from within Google Calendar.
• Netvibes, a personalized start page. Remember The Milk has created a widget for Netvibes similar to the one offered for iGoogle. It is available from the Netvibes Ecosystem site.
• Twitter, a microblogging service. Users can add RTM's Twitter account to their watch list, then they can send direct messages and have the task added.
• Remember the Milk can send alerts to instant messaging accounts, email addresses, and mobile devices (via text messages)^{[citation needed]}.
• Tasque, an open source GNOME task management client. It has a minimalist GUI and one click linking to a single RTM account.
• Astrid, an open source Android task management client. It supports two-way synchronization between an RTM account and the application task list.
• Microsoft Outlook, personal information manager from Microsoft. Two-way synchronization of tasks is done by SprinxCRM OutlookSync for Remember The Milk^[1] ( as of 2010/8 part of SprinxCRM UniversalSync). It includes support for RTM’s smart lists, which get added to Outlook as categories.

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