I know I've seen this request before but it needs to be brought up again.  It would be nice to have Action Alerts populate on the day a specific Action is due rather than when the Action was assigned.  I think a simple checkbox in the Action to choose to have the assigned person notified either upon assignment of the Action, when Due or Both would be a great way to help prioritize Actions.

And the choice to not send an Action Alert for low priority or routine tasks.  Created an another enhancement request for this.