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Other ways of reminding yourself of an upcoming deadline include flagging a task and reducing the review frequency of a task (from the default week). With both approaches you would enter the current due date in the comments field.

Including the other approaches (start date, due date and iCal), you should have sufficient reminder capabilities to deal with project due dates depending on how busy you are, how proactive you choose to be, or how important a project is.