Remember the Milk

[mattheworiordan]

I found a few Remember the Milk plugins but had very little luck with them because they either did not work, or they did not provide any feedback when a task was added.

 

All I want from a RTM plugin is to quickly add an RTM task by press alt-Space, typing 'rtm my task text here'.  This plugin delivers that - an extremely quick way to add a task when you want to with minimal key strokes.

 

Dependencies

• You must have Ruby installed (this is installed by default with OS X), but you can also use rbenv or rvm
• You must install the rumember gem and authenticate with RTM:
  Step 1 install gem:  `gem install rumember`
  Step 2 authenticate with rtm: `ru`

Note: This workflow supports system installed Ruby, RVM installed ruby or RbEnv installed ruby.  However, please make sure that whichever Ruby you are running has the gem `ru` installed and authenticated.

 

Download the plugin

[pearlythepirate]

This is great and it works as I expected. However, do you have a method of having the tasks default to a list other than the Inbox? I use a "Tasks" list for my general tasks and it would be great to get them to go there automatically.

EDIT: I realized soon after I posted that I could modify the script and add "#Tasks" to add it to the string passed to ruby, so, in the script, instead of:

ru "{query}"

I have

ru "{query} #Tasks"

Edited December 22, 2013 by pearlythepirate

[indros]

Can you explain step 2?  I know to use Terminal to install gem, but typing in "ru" in the command line gets me nothing. 

 

I'm very excited about using Alfred to add tasks to RTM.

 

Sincerely,
John

[cands]

This is great! Works very well together with RTM's Smart Add feature and then becomes quite powerful. Thanks for the workflow!

[codejak]

Unfortunately the workflow is not working for me - I get the "FAILED to add task" error.

 

I can add tasks via "ru mytask", so rumember appears to be working fine.

 

Can I somehow identify what exactly it is that is going wrong? This is on MacOS 10.11.3 with ruby 2.0.0p645.

 

TIA

Matt

[indros]

For those struggling with Terminal, I found the "Fast Milk" workflow that works in El Capitan and doesn't require the Terminal.

[devnall]

This is a great workflow, I've been using it for a couple of years.

 

On my new laptop, rumember ended up in ~/.rbenv/shims. So I made a new workflow to account for that as well as a few other changes.

 

More details in the README here: https://github.com/devnall/alfred-rtm-workflow

Direct download link: https://github.com/devnall/alfred-rtm-workflow/blob/master/rtm.alfredworkflow?raw=true

Edited March 31, 2016 by devnall

[ji-hwan]

Thanks for great workflow!

 

Let me add one know-how I found. 

 

In the "devnall"'s workflow, I usually fail to use the workflow because the
 

ru "{query}"

 

is not working (Although in my terminal it works well)

 

So I edit that commend with following steps

 

 

0. After following upper step1 and step2 of  mattheworiordan

 

1. In terminal,  test the commend "ru "{query}"" works well

 

$ ru my working 

 

and check the application of "Remember the milk" include the "my working" in the list

 

 

2. type the following commend

 

$ which ru

 

in my case

~ $ which ru

/usr/local/bin/ru

 

3. change the    

ru in  ru "{query}" in Run script with "/usr/local/bin/ru"

 

ex) 

BEFORE

 

~~~

ru "{query}"

 

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

  echo "FAILED to add task!! Check rumember is installed and authenticated"

else

  echo "{query}"

fi

 

AFTER

 

/usr/local/bin/ru "{query}"

 

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

  echo "FAILED to add task!! Check rumember is installed and authenticated"

else

  echo "{query}"

fi

[SHF]

I can't get this to work anymore - anyone have a working version of a script to post to RTM?

Thanks!

[indros]

On 12/15/2019 at 8:19 PM, SHF said:

I can't get this to work anymore - anyone have a working version of a script to post to RTM?

Thanks!

 

Hey SHF, I posted this earlier but the Fast Milk workflow still works in Catalina and requires a lot less technical expertise: https://github.com/chocopie116/alfred-remember-the-milk

 

Sincerely,
John

[SHF]

Thank you. I got it working on one computer but not the other, but Fast Milk is working on both. I can't get tags to work (is that implemented in this one?) but thanks for the help!