I’d like to take this opportunity to pray that God will bless all of you who are beginning a new school year.  The beginning days of a school year are a crazy, exciting, scary, busy time for educators and there are always many, many tasks to keep track of.  This week’s Web 2.0 Weekly app might be just the thing you need to help you stay on top of all that.

Remember The Milk (RTM) is a simple tool that allows you to enter tasks and reminders quickly and easily.  Tasks can be added to customized lists, then assigned due dates, tagged, associated with specific locations, link to URLs, assign priorities, and even share with others.  RTM can be configured to send you reminders via SMS, instant message (using almost any service you can think of), and email.  If that was all that RTM did, it would be a great tool.  However, RTM does even more.

Remember The Milk reminders can be set via a special email address that is given to each user.  The service is also iCalendar-compliant, so you can easily import your data into your Google Calendar or Apple’s iCal.  And if that wasn’t enough, RTM also creates Atom and RSS feeds that you can subscribe to in your RSS reader!

All of those features are part of Remember The Milk’s free service.  The new, $25/year Pro service adds mobile apps for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, Blackberry, Android, and Windows Mobile devices.  There are also numerous third-party apps/services and a few other official ones.

Remember the Milk’s standard service is free to use (and there don’t even appear to be any ads).  RTM supports all major, modern web browsers on Mac, Windows, and Linux and has been online since 2004.  With the numerous, powerful features, and its easy-to-use interface, RTM should be in every teacher’s Web 2.0 toolbox.