I'm thinking of programing/writing/whatever a database to keep track of some information for work. I think that I would like to keep track of 7-12 fields of information, and be able to set up reminders that are tagged to date information. For instance, "you did such and such 30 days ago...you can now file the claim, here is the information that you recorded earlier."
How would i go about doing this, free as in beer, in an open database format? Let me also mention that I'm a total newb ;)
TIA,
Tim