[QUOTE]jenniferp asked for more detail about how I set up iCal to open the review checklists. Here's what I did to automatically open my Evening Review checklist:

1. I created a new calendar in iCal called Reminders. Having a separate calendar lets me hide the items that trigger the reviews so my usual iCal view isn't any more cluttered.
2. I created a new event in iCal set for 9:45pm with time zone floating. (This makes the event happen at a consistent local time, even when I'm traveling.)
3. I set the event to repeat every day with no end date.
4. I added an Alarm to the event to open my Evening Review file.
5. Finally, I selected a different calendar in the sidebar and unchecked the Reminders calendar. This hides the reminders, but they still fire.


There's only one catch. We have an old PB in our family room that we use as a media server. I sync calendars on it and my MBP using MobileMe. When the Evening Review alarm fires on the PB, it can't find the checklist file, so I get an error dialog on that machine. Not really a big deal, but something to be aware of.[/QUOTE]

With regards to Step 4, where is your evening review file stored? What kind of file is it?

It's an OmniOutliner outline, but that's irrelevant — as long as the Mac can tell what application to use to open the file (in other words, if you double-click the file, does it open properly) the right thing will happen. If you want to keep your review checklist as a Kid Pix drawing, that should work fine :-)

And you can store it anywhere you want, because when you set up the alarm, you use the usual Mac file opening dialog box to show iCal where it is.

Thanks. I started playing around with it and I was using an Evernote entry with the review as a checklist and iCal opened it perfectly. It took a little digging to find that particular entry, but it worked.