HitMeLater - Snooze button for emails

Posted on August 31, 2008 at 5:39 am

Do you find yourself procrastinating when it comes to answering your emails? Although it’s one of the most useful tools created, it can also become an overwhelming pain if left unattended. Even if you set up filters and folders, there’s still a pretty good chance that you’ll forget to go back to an important one.

Overflowing inboxes can be a procrastinator’s worst nightmare. You always make the promise of eliminating your procrastinating ways and completing tasks in an timely manner. However, most of the time that never happens. Thankfully, there are so many web applications and services that will make it much easier deal with this.

HitMeLater is a great little service that will remind you to answer an important email. It intelligently does this by resending the email to you, when you have more time to reply to it. Instead of relying on your memory, you’ll receive a little extra help that will make you more productive. It can best be described as a snooze button for your emails. No one likes hearing that they’ve missed out on an important chance because of an unanswered email. Not only will that look unprofessional, but it could cause you to lose out on a profit as well.

In order to get started, just forward the email to the HitMeLater service. There’s no registration process and you don’t have to invite friends to join. Within a few short seconds, you’ll turn into a productive worker that knows how to answer emails on time. Using the service is pretty straightforward and easy. Forward the email to 24@hitmelater.com and you’ll receive it again within 24 hours. If you need a shorter time period, then change the number listed in front of the @hitmelater.com portion. It can be quickly set to 1 hour, 2 hours, or more.

HitMeLater is also smart enough to decipher days of the week. Forward your email to Tuesday@HitMeLater.com and it will be resent to you on the following Tuesday. This is definitely a simple service to use and it takes a short time to get the hang of it.

Although some email users might think it’s a pointless service, most procrastinators will benefit greatly from it. Instead of forgetting to answer an email, use this service to gently nudge you into doing the right thing. Since there’s no cost or required registration, give HitMeLater a try. You might be surprised at how useful it can be.

Ms Yokum
Tech Enthusiast & Blogger