Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations

lukeprog

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Given that Less Wrong is a community of unusually intelligent, critical, and self-improvement-focused people, I suspect we can generate a pretty helpful thread of product recommendations — perhaps even a monthly thread of product recommendations.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

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.

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".

0[anonymous]13y

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.

1Qiaochu_Yuan13y

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.

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