Seems like it might be easier, and infinitely more adjustable to use Excel for this. It woul dbe something that you would have to check everyday versus a new message or appointment alert. But, with simple formula's to conditionally format data based on dates, quick sorting, hiding and unhiding that are easily implemented (with a little bit of experimentation), it's hard to beat it.
Excel is available online, too, for free. And yes, it is the most inappropriately used software ever invented but hey, it's like aspirin --it just works.

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.

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