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Anyone have a web based tickler file?

I currently have my tickler file on my desktop as just text files in a folder. However, does anyone know of any web services that would allow you to implement this on the web? I just sort of want what might look like a daily to-do list. However, all the to-do list programs I've seen don't have a day-to-day function.

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I am trying to avoid...

I am trying to avoid computer-based tools. However, I need to use computers to interact with people at work and at home, so I have been thinking about the kind of tools that would complement my generally lofi approach to GTD.

I have capturing, next actions and context covered, but my project management stuff could be improved. Given that I only look at my projects once a week, its possible that a web-based GTD project management tool would be useful. It would have to avoid the whole GANTT chart thing, though, and stick more closely to David Allen's idea of "natural planning".

One thing I love about tickler files (the physical ones) is the ability to "mail yourself" notes in the future. It would be lovely if there was some way to email yourself in the future. No doubt huge amounts of functionality could be layered on top of that idea, but I think something really basic would be cool: an app on the end of an email address that would bounce whatever you sent it back to you, verbatim, at a time based on what it parsed from the subject line (eg. "send flowers to mum next Tuesday").

Finally, at the moment I have nowhere to store little bits of electronic information. I have my general reference filing system so, if somebody sends me a nice email, or I have to remember a bank account number, I suppose I could whip out the labeller, scribble the information down and throw it in a suspension file. That seems awfully heavyweight for the myriad of small, trivial but useful pieces of information that seem to be in orbit around me. I think that this could possibly be solved using a kind of Web 2.0 application (indeed, I have heard the phrase "Data 2.0" being bandied about as a subject area).

Just my 2p. Perhaps I will implement some of that in my copious free time :)

 
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