I have two suggestions depending on where you want to see those tickler items.
Things Action
If you want to have those tickler items in things (e.g. to easily change a date or see upcoming items in your task manager), I suggest that you create a drafts action that will do the following:
- lets you select a date
- creates the task in things (using the url scheme) with
- title as your drafts title
- note (or also in the title) containing the link to open that draft
- due date set to the date you selected earlier
(you could also add a link to the task into the draft - so you have them cross linked between Drafts and Things)
This is a one time action that you run manually for each draft that should pop up at some point in the future.
Drafts only Actions
If you want to keep these things out of your Things app you could also make use of two drafts actions which I just published:
- one action that you can use to insert a “tickler date” e.g.
[tickler:2024-12-24]into your draft insert tickler date | Drafts Directory - another action that searches through the library for that string matching the current date: inbox todays tickler drafts | Drafts Directory
You can run this action with a shortcuts automation when you open drafts (this will prevent issues with background permissions. I do something similar with Readwise highlights and I have a Shortcut that checks for the last opening date of Drafts and only if it was not opened on this day it will run the action in drafts. This would be a perfect use case for such an automation and I can see if I can share that shortcut if you’re interested.
If you want to go the Things route and need help with the action scripting, let me know 