Digital tickler file?

Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Aug 6, 2009 at 06:14 PM

Greetings.

In pondering why I am currently dissatisfied with my current data collection methods (mostly Evernote) I’ve realized my issue is that I’m looking for more of an electronic tickler file.
Essentially, I’m looking for something that can remind me to look at certain data I’ve collected at a later.

For example, I’m a freelance journalist and one magazine I write for sends me their editorial calendar as a spreadsheet which lists upcoming theme issues and the deadline to submit story proposals. I’d like something that I can easily put the spreadsheet in and quickly set an alarm to remind me at a certain data that I need to come up with a brilliant idea before the deadline.

Zoot seems best suited for the task, but I can’t seem to get the spreadsheet into it without mangling it. Evernote keeps it looking correct if I copy and paste (though I can’t just drag and drop, seems storing spreadsheets requires a premium account even though older versions had this capability…and I’m just not read to commit to the software as a service model yet) but it doesn’t have any kind of alarm feature.

So, is there anything like this?