Wish you could hit a snooze button for emails? Introducing HitMeLater.com
There are so many times when I receive an email and I think to myself “Dude - I wish I could snooze this email until later.” Sometimes I have way too much on my plate for the day and can’t get to a request (but I still care! Really!), my emails are never-ending or the email isn’t relevant for the time being. Introducing HitMeLater (announced on Techcrunch today) - literally a snooze button for your email. Awesome!
Here’s how it works: You can forward any email to @HitMeLater.com and have it snooze for any length of time and have it return back to your email (unread) at that specified time. For example if you want to revisit an email from your crazy boss in a day you can forward that email to 24@HitMeLater.com (24 being the number of hours for the snooze) and you’ll receive the email back the next day, same time. Super simple! You can also use days of the week - so I want to answer an email on Friday (it doesn’t matter what time) - so I can forward the email to Friday@HitMeLater.com and get it to the top of my inbox that day. Dude - my life just got 10x easier! I <3 snooze buttons!
Arrington made a good point in his blog post - that a lot of people rely on stars, flags, categories, or just leaving unread emails in your inbox. But how many times have you forgotten to go back to a starred email? I think I have more starred than total emails in my account. 
Looks like there’s no installation or sign-up required. Just start forwarding to @hitmelater.com - schweet. Enjoy!
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Curious , what sounds easier to you
A)going to your gmail email , and seeing an email , going boy i thing i’m going to send this email to this email address that sends email back to me later, this email address has full access to the email i forward them , allowing to read it , or pretty much do whatever they want with it , then send it back to you later. so you can deal with it later.
OR
B)go to your gmail email , notice a new email , ignore it until you can get to it , seeing as all email services have enough room to hold many emails. I just went to gmail’s webpage and they have 7030 megabytes of space to hold that email. Its nice and safe , and waiting until you deal with it later.
But then again someone could have a key logger on your computer , which eventually allows them to record your gmail password and get access to all your emails, of course if your stupid enough to forward emails , just to get them back again later, then your stupid enough to download a key logger that might be called ” happy hippos dancing to techno music while eating lots of food”
who knows.
You have a good point, Odan. I think it just depends on type of person you are and how you organize yourself to be the most productive. For me personally, I like to see a clean inbox with no un-read messages. If I have unread messages I feel anxiety over me. Is there a Rx somebody can write for that?
So it just depends on your preferences. Do you like to hit the snooze in the morning or wake up right away? See, I like to hit the snooze a few times before I can crawl out of bed…but that’s just me. My point is, it’s nice for those people who need the reminder at the top of their inbox.
This is going to be very useful. It’s like a to-do list that comes to you instead of you having to look at it to see what’s on it.
Thanks for post. Friend advice to read you. Good thing. Added in favourites! Will come soon!
Ok, so this is incredibly delayed response to your post, but if nothing else this discussion makes me overwhelmingly glad that I decided to be InboxZero several months ago.
That means as a general rule, i have absolutely zero messages in my inbox - unread or not.
I use gmail’s hosted apps for my mail. using their filter engine, i apply labels to things and about 95% of my mail - that which doesn’t require future action - skips my inbox entirely. When I read a message, i archive it if it doesn’t require action.
It takes a little bit of work to set up and a few weeks practice to get in the habit, but my email is now stress-free and my inbox serves as my to-do list without me having to flag messages or sift through pages of messages.
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