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Comment author: jaibot 06 July 2012 05:21:53AM 5 points [-]

Boomerang for Gmail

Have emails return to your inbox at a specified day and time. Stop thinking about things until your past self decides you need to be thinking about them again. Keep a clean inbox. Want to reply to a letter but don't have time until after work? Boomerang it to tonight, and you'll get a reminder when it lands in your inbox and you have time to take care of it.

Free for the first 10/emails a month, $5/month for unlimited emails. I pay the $5 and it's very worth it.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 13 February 2013 03:57:00AM 1 point [-]

I have been using this and love it. One of the things I use it for is to remind myself in the future to do a specific thing at a specific time (I have Gmail on my iPhone, so it pings me when I get the email), but in a way that's phrased as a request from a past self (e.g. "Hi future me, Do this thing! It'll be awesome! Cheers, past me") so it'll feel like I'm breaking a social commitment instead of just ignoring a reminder.

Comment author: AlexSchell 02 January 2014 09:21:29PM 0 points [-]

I added Boomerang based on your recommendation. I already use Mailbox for iPhone to schedule emails to reappear at some given time. I've used Boomerang primarily to delay the sending of an e-mail ("Send Later") and to schedule emails to reappear in my inbox if I don't get a reply. I find "Send Later" particularly useful, since it removes the rationalization that "I'll compose this e-mail later, since I can't send it out until later".

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 20 April 2013 10:27:48PM *  0 points [-]

Great recommendation. I actually came back to this page with the specific purpose of recommending Boomerang, after trying it for a coupe of weeks on the basis of Qiaochu Yuan's endorsement, and I'm happy to see it already mentioned.