eed to track a project or a to-do list? Need the information to be online and always available? Do you want to receive reminders by e-mail or text message? Where project management software would be too complex and personal organizing software too simple, OnlineHomeBase.com steps in.

Developed by a former journalist, the site allows users to create "sheets" that function as smart notes or calendars and can be shared with people you designate.

The sheets are laid out in columns or as calendar boxes, or both, and once you have set up a free account, you can enter text. Using an easy form of notation - two semicolons before an entry - you can instruct the site to send a reminder of an event to your PC or cellphone. Reminders can be sent hourly, daily, every third day or at any other frequency.

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You could set up a sheet, for example, just to send you reminders of birthdays and anniversaries.

Entries need not be reminders, however. They can be notes of any kind, and the sheets can also be used to collaborate on or track projects with other people. You can specify whether additional users are allowed to edit a sheet or only to read it. Each sheet can store 100,000 characters (equivalent to 20 single-spaced Word pages of text), and each notation is automatically time-stamped, making it easy to track a sheet's development.

Don't throw away that project management program or calendar, though. One thing

OnlineHomeBase cannot do is synchronize with hand-held computers or other programs. Not yet, anyway, though the developer says he is working on it.