If you’re using Gmail, and you have ever wished you could compose an email and send it later – tomorrow, next week, in a few hours, even next year – we’ve got good news for you.
You don’t know why you might want to send something later? Say you wanted to send an email to someone wishing them a happy anniversary or happy birthday. And you are thinking about it a couple of weeks before the event. Why now compose it now while you’re thinking about it and have Gmail send it on the special day? That way you don’t need reminder programs or alarms or worry about forgetting someone’s anniversary or birthday. Say you are going to quit your job and you want to tell you boss what you really think. But you’d like to collect your last paycheck first. You can tell your boss off right now while you’re still fuming and send it to him in complete safety a month from now. Good idea, right?
If you want to add send-it-later capability to Gmail and you use Firefox or Chrome as your browser, you’ll want to get the Boomerang extension and you can get it fromhttp://www.boomeranggmail.com/.
Besides giving you the ability to send delayed emails, Boomerang also has more features. You can set it to remind you if no reply has been received to your email within a certain number of days.
From the Boomeranggmail site:
Send an email later
With Boomerang, you can write an email now and schedule it to be sent automatically at the perfect time. Just write the message as you normally would, then click the Send Later button. Use our handy calendar picker or our text box that understands language like “next Monday” to tell Boomerang when to send your message. We’ll take it from there.
The best follow up reminders
Want a cleaner inbox, but don’t want to lose track of important messages? Use Boomerang to take messages out of your inbox until you actually need them. Just click the Boomerang button when you have an email open, and choose when you need it again. Boomerang will archive the message. At the time you chose, we’ll bring it back to your inbox, marked unread, starred, or even at the top of your message list.
Boomerang is free for up to 10 delayed messages per month. It’s also available for your smart phone too.
Bounce on over to www.boomeranggmail.com and start figuring out all the ways you could use it.