Tasks and calendar appointments can get cumbersome if you work in an office that uses them for everything. Over time, they just become part of the background noise and you don’t pay much attention when your reminders pop-up in the morning. If you prefer to get your reminders and to-dos via e-mail, try UrgeMe, a new service in beta that takes your e-mail address, your reminder, the date you want to be reminded, and will ping you by e-mail until you’ve done what you wanted to do.

UrgeMe is so simple a baby can use it. All you have to do is put in your email address, write your reminder and then the due date! Click “Okay” and it’s done. You will receive an email reminder every month before its due, 2 weeks before, 1 week before and then a few days before.

The service may add more features in the future, like urges delivered at a specific time, but I can’t imagine what other features the developers have to add to make the service work. The reminder field is only 140 characters, so while you can remind yourself to write the first chapter of the great American novel, you can’t remind yourself what the opening paragraph is.

You don’t have to sign up for an account to use UrgeMe, and that’s part of the design. The site is simple to use, requires only a few clicks to set up a reminder, and is missing the features and bloat that make other reminder sites both more feature-rich but also more difficult to use.

If you want a more robust reminder service or organizational tool, UrgeMe isn’t right for you. However, if you’re looking for a way to send short, simple e-mail reminders to yourself or others at specific dates in the future, UrgeMe is quick, free, and fits the bill.