Ever Wanted To Schedule An Email To Send Later?

Despite the fact that email is a 40-year-old technology (for real!), it doesn’t seem to be going away… even though every year some new app or article is exclaiming “Email is dead!”

A lot of tools have come along to make email easier and more manageable. One of the most popular ways to use email now is Google’s Gmail.

Did you know it’s been around for over 10 years now!?

Even after years of progress, a lot of email clients are very analog in the way they operate. Mail in, mail out. Organize mail in folders.

Gmail has several other features now that help a bit, but there are lots of useful things that computers are good at that aren’t to be found in there.

Computers are great for creating reminders at a certain time so we don’t need to keep track of something. We can also tell the computer to do something later.

Pretty basic.

But why can’t email do that?

Finally, Your Prayers Have Been Answered

Yes, there’s an app for that too.

Using this could be revolutionary in the way you use email. Let me introduce you to Boomerang for Gmail. And yes, there’s a free version.

1) You can schedule an an email to be sent later.

There are so many uses for this. You could be going on vacation, but schedule emails to be sent while you’re gone so no one notices. Or maybe it’s 3:30am and you want to send an email a few hours later so people think you’re waking up early and not staying up super late.

Or something more practical, like scheduling recurring announcements to your colleagues so you don’t need to set a reminder to send a similar email every week or month.

2) You can have messages come back into your inbox if they’re not replied to

Your messages can be set to “boomerang” back into your inbox after you send them and there’s no response in a set period of time.

Have you ever sent an important email and never heard back, only forget about it until it’s too late?

Eliminate this entirely with Boomerang helping you to be amazing at following up. Super helpful for freelancers, salespeople, and anyone with deadlines.

Boomerang is an add-on for your browser. Works in Safari, Chrome, and FireFox. Give it a try at BoomerangGmail.com and take your email productivity to the next level!

Be sure to let me know how it works for you!

Do you have any other questions about how to manage email? Leave a comment below.

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