Dear All

I have been using Outlook at work as a sort of tickler system, but I wonder if there is a more elegant way to do this.

I am a doctor and often book investigations for patients I see in the clinic. Sometimes I won't be seeing the patient again for several months, but I need a system to remind me to chase results once the test has been done, in case there is an unexpected finding and I need to see them sooner.

My current system involves sending myself an email with the word 'Chhase' in the subject heading, deliberately mis-spelt. I have a rule set up in Outlook which pulls any emails with 'chhase' into a folder. I then go through this folder regularly and look up their results.

However, many of the tests are done on a particular date. What would be useful would be to have these messages disappear until after the test has been done, and then to reappear. Ideally, they would populate a list but only after a specified date.

To complicate matters further, I don't have full access to Outlook in the clinic, but only to a Web Access version of Outlook. This is why I've been using emails until now.

So I have two questions:

If I can organise remote access to my PC (with Outlook), is there a way to use the calendar or the to-do list to achieve what I'm after (but ideally in a shortcut fashion - I've tried the to-do list but it involves quite a few mouse clicks, compared with my current one line email).

Or, if remote access is not possible, is there a way to achieve this using only emails (as you can do with Remember the Milk, for example, where I believe you can email yourself in a certain way to populate do-do lists).

Any help you can offer would be very gratefully received!

many thanks

Geoffrey