The 80/20 Rule

Remember the Milk has a number of very cool options, sleek web 2.0’ish features that go above and beyond your typical task manager. However, only a fraction of these features are available through the tool’s iGoogle gadget, the interface I use almost exclusively to access my RTM tasks.

This isn’t a problem though as the few features that are in the gadget happen to be the ones I use most. I don’t think this is a coincidence. The RTM iGoogle gadget is a classic example of the 80/20 rule at work. It allows access to the 20% of RTM’s features that will be accessed 80% of the time by users.