WordNet
n. a file of memoranda or notices that remind of things to be done [syn: tickler]
Wikipedia
A tickler file or 43 Folders System is a collection of date-labeled file folders organized in a way that allows time-sensitive documents to be filed according to the future date on which each document needs action. Documents within the folders of a tickler file can be to-do lists, pending bills, unpaid invoices, travel tickets, hotel reservations, meeting information, birthday reminders, coupons, claim tickets, call-back notes, follow-up reminders, maintenance reminders, or any other papers that require future action. Each day, the folder having the current date is retrieved from the tickler file so that any documents within it may be acted on. Essentially, a tickler file provides a way to send a reminder to oneself in the future—" tickling" one's memory.
Usage examples of "tickler file".
It turns out that the file a secretary keeps to remind her boss to do certain things at certain times is called a tickler file.
Since it isn't, it is no more phony to do it this way than it is to use a tickler file in order not to forget a friend's birthday-that's what it is: a giant tickler file, to cover anything.
Authority had lost interest in him and he would exist only in a tickler file to remind someone to give an annual check.
Mason's tickler file prompted the secretary to call her at least three times a day.
Atvar said after a quick glance at a tickler file on the computer screen in front of him.