electricpete
Android Expert
This describes it:
https://code.google.com/p/gmail-delay-send/
Setting it up takes about five minutes (accept the defaults).
Usage is simple:
1 - Compose a draft to anyone you want (including yourself). The first line has a code telling it when to send for example: @4pm or @ July 30 3pm (more examples at their wiki)
2 – Go to your drafts folder, find the draft, and apply the label: DelayedSend/ToSend (which was created for you during setup)
3 - YOU’RE DONE!...
Message will be sent at the appointed time, and you’ll receive something resembling a “receipt” at that time which tells you the message was sent.
Why do you need it?
1 – You want the email to arrive to the sender at a convenient time. Not over the weekend but maybe 9am on Monday instead.
2 – You want to follow up on an email you just sent, without having to remember to follow up.
3 – You just snail mailed someone something. You can delay send one week later and start with “you should have gotten my letter…”
4 – *** You want to remind YOURSELF about an email that you need to take action on at some specific time in the future… just delay send it to yourself!
#4 is probably the most powerful one for me. Sure I have a to-do app, but if the to-do item concerns an email, then I'd still have to go find that email first before I can do something with it. Getting the message forwarded to me by me to arrive in my inbox at the time I want is way better. If I ever want to remind myself what I've got coming up, I can check by inspecting contents of the DelayedSend/ToSend label. If it's a very important thing and I want to give it more significance than just appearing in my inbox, then I can put a special keyword into the message that triggers gmail to send me an sms when it arrives (that's something you can set up using gmail filter....I already include that keyword in appointment descriptions so when the gmail reminder arrives it sends me an sms... this compensates for the fact that google took away sms reminders from our calendars)
Maybe inbox can do similar things, but I’m not onboard with inbox yet... not enough control for me.
By the way, once set up (I think setup requires a pc, not sure), this works on either the pc or the android app.
https://code.google.com/p/gmail-delay-send/
Setting it up takes about five minutes (accept the defaults).
Usage is simple:
1 - Compose a draft to anyone you want (including yourself). The first line has a code telling it when to send for example: @4pm or @ July 30 3pm (more examples at their wiki)
2 – Go to your drafts folder, find the draft, and apply the label: DelayedSend/ToSend (which was created for you during setup)
3 - YOU’RE DONE!...
Message will be sent at the appointed time, and you’ll receive something resembling a “receipt” at that time which tells you the message was sent.
Why do you need it?
1 – You want the email to arrive to the sender at a convenient time. Not over the weekend but maybe 9am on Monday instead.
2 – You want to follow up on an email you just sent, without having to remember to follow up.
3 – You just snail mailed someone something. You can delay send one week later and start with “you should have gotten my letter…”
4 – *** You want to remind YOURSELF about an email that you need to take action on at some specific time in the future… just delay send it to yourself!
#4 is probably the most powerful one for me. Sure I have a to-do app, but if the to-do item concerns an email, then I'd still have to go find that email first before I can do something with it. Getting the message forwarded to me by me to arrive in my inbox at the time I want is way better. If I ever want to remind myself what I've got coming up, I can check by inspecting contents of the DelayedSend/ToSend label. If it's a very important thing and I want to give it more significance than just appearing in my inbox, then I can put a special keyword into the message that triggers gmail to send me an sms when it arrives (that's something you can set up using gmail filter....I already include that keyword in appointment descriptions so when the gmail reminder arrives it sends me an sms... this compensates for the fact that google took away sms reminders from our calendars)
Maybe inbox can do similar things, but I’m not onboard with inbox yet... not enough control for me.
By the way, once set up (I think setup requires a pc, not sure), this works on either the pc or the android app.
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