tickler file, file, data file
Used for tracking referrals, follow-ups, or re-check appointments (in reference to a medical office)
A tickler file is a collection of data labeled file organised in a way that allows item sensitive documents to be filed according to the future data on which each document needs action. Documents within a tickler file can be>to do lists, pending bills, unpaid invoices, travel tickets, hotel reservations, meeting information, call back notes and follow up reminders. The tickler file is often used in newsrooms by editing, journalists, reporters, sales representatives and professional offices in medicine, law, government, and accounting.
A tickler file is a file set up to remind the user of matters that must be attended to at appropriate times. There is no set number. The number depends on the number of files that office has in the category of time sensitive material.
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USS TICKLER was a 50-ton sloop used as a dispatch boat. Source: usskidd.com
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Thomas Tickler was born in 1852.
Thomas Tickler died in 1938.
In Great Expectations, the "tickler" is a cane used by Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt to keep Pip in line during his lessons. Pip is scared of the "tickler" and the strict discipline it represents.
Tickler system has the same meaning in medical terms as in the wider world. It's a system for remind you to do something at some future date. For example, if someone's mammogram result included a recommendation to repeat the study in six months, you might file a tickler to remind you and your staff to tell the patient to go and to watch for the result.