Your phone already runs your life. It might as well run your submission calendar, because the current system of spreadsheets and sticky notes is a graveyard.
- Five things: deadlines by month, alerts with lead times you control, calendar sync, discipline filters, offline access - One or two deadlines a year? Your calendar app with three reminders each is fine - Five to ten? Get the dedicated app - Running a lab? Get the dashboard and make the mobile app the price of admission - Deadline apps get you to the portal; checklist apps get you through it; different problems, both worth the home screen
VenueFit is free and keeps the real calendar behind the alarms: dates, locations, and submission links, bookmarked once.