Cool Tool To ‘Snooze’ Your Email
By Anna Johnson on August 16th, 2008Philip Kaplan has released a service, HitMeLater, that enable you to delay incoming email.
According to Mr Kaplan, the service is “free, secure and spamless” and doesn’t require registration. You just send an email to 24@hitmelater.com and the service will resend it to you 24 hours later.
You can change the delay period by substituting the “24″ with some other number or day. For example, if you send an email to “4@hitmelater.com”, you’ll get it back four hours later. Send it to “wednesday@hitmelater.com” and you’ll get it back the first Wednesday morning after sending the email.
Tech Crunch’s Michael Arrington reckons he’ll be using HitMeLater to forward his email to Sunday@hitmelater.com (his slowest email day).
I suspect HitMeLater will only be useful if you can configure your email client to automatically forward your email to a predetermined HitMeLater email address. Otherwise you’ll be manually forwarding all those emails. Not that much of a time saver.
Also, another alternative for delaying incoming email is to configure your email client to only download email at certain intervals.
Just remember, the longer you delay all that email… the more email you’ll be inundated with at once…
Source: Michael Arrington, “HitMeLater: A Snooze Button For Your Email”, Tech Crunch, August 14, 2008, HitMeLater
