Boring Work Question Alert - any PR/organisational bods out there today?

[Enid]

Can we have a 'Boring Work Questions' topic

I am trying to set up a marketing database at work, I don't really know what I am doing but I want something that will 'remind' me when I should send out press releases to various publications. Obviously they are all different, monthlies are around 6 weeks before publication date, weeklies are the friday before etc etc.

I want to do this on the pc - which program would be best to use? Any advice?

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Some email systems have calenders that enable you to set up alerts. I'm not sure if you could set it up to alert you every month though but it might be worth looking.

Outlook (as opposed to outlook express). It's really easy to use, and has really good spam filters to boot.

Definitely go for Outlook. I put reminders in for myself about all sorts of things. You just put them in like appointments and make sure the reminder box is ticked so that it will pop up and tell you that you should be doing whatever you put in!!!!