Geoffrey
The premise here amused me to the extent that I filled a few hours playing around with some ideas and came up with a process that might be useful.
The code is in the form of a Word add-in template, which, with a little more polish, I may make available from my web site, however in the meantime, the fully working prototype can be downloaded from my DropBox - address below:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Ver%201.0.dotm
The add-in requires Word, obviously, but it also requires access to Outlook.
The add-in will create new Outlook tasks from a simple userform, and will also produce a list of today's tasks in a particular category (or no category). The last used category is saved.
If you find it useful then let me know, via my web site, and if you can think of any ways to make it more useful then let me know that also.
Relevant instructions are contained in the template body. Open the template in Word to view.