How to email your future self
June 26th, 2007 by Randy Stewart, Product ManagerEver thought about sending yourself a reminder, but you don’t really use Outlook or other calendaring systems?
Despite the fact that I use Apple’s built in iCal, often times I’ve thought that sending myself an email might be the best way to reach my future self (and yes, I could use iCal to do this, but what fun would that be?). Fortunately, an informative thread on Ask Metafilter has made several suggestions to email yourself in the future.
Emailing the Future
I Want Sandy
A clever service called I Want Sandy, from the lads that brought us Stikkit, is an entirely email based “secretarial service.” Part of that service sends email reminders for future events that you tell it to remember.
Like a real secretary (at least from what I’ve seen in the movies), cc’ing Sandy with “Sandy, remind me about my haircut appointment on July 6 1-2pm” will result in an email reminder around that time.
More from Sandy’s blog
Google Calendar
Like I Want Sandy, Google Calendar requires a login, but if you already have a Gmail account, you have easy, no sign-up access to Gcal.
Adding an event to the calendar, you have the option of when and how (popup, email or SMS) that message is (re)delivered to you.
Future Me
Future Me does one thing, it sends you a message in the future.
It’s not a reminder service, so you can’t send yourself a message any less than 90 days in the future. If you truly only want to send yourself a time capsule email, this is the service for you.
No login required here, but you do have to verify the email address that you plan to send the message to.
Dear Future Self, …
I’m thinking of using one of these services to remind me of bigger goals in life like wanting to exercise more or learning to kayak, rather than a standard reminder like “clean out your inbox.”
That’s one thing I don’t need a reminder of.