A way to help those procrastinators

Having just read Richard Byrne's post on task management tools for students, I am struck by the potential of one of the tools he describes.

All you do is fill in this simple form, and toggle from the list of due date options (the ELA teacher in me does grate a bit at the grammar of "This needs done," but I'll get over it).  You can choose a time frame - today, 2 days from now, in a week, two weeks, etc.

Once you hit send, the recipient will get reminders until they respond that the task is completed.

While I wouldn't use this with all students - it would be tedious at best, and annoying and enabling at its worst - it could be quite useful for a few chronic procrastinators, or for the occasional parent who really needs to keep on top of what the child is doing towards a particular task.