back to the to-do drawing list

Nope, RTM doesn't transmit the names of the smart lists to the phone as categories like I thought it would.

So now either I change products to some other tech solution that doesn't quite match how my sytem works or else I change my system... Why did I think technology was supposed to enable you to get things done instead of changing how you do them? What was I thinking?

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