Honestly said it doesn’t get any easier than this when it comes to e-mail reminders. A site called HitMeLater recently launched by this guy is one of those things where you wonder why someone didn’t think of this before.
How it works (according to the site itself):
Just forward any email to 24@hitmelater.com and we’ll resend it to you 24 hours later. You can replace "24" with any number or day. For example, forward it to 4@hitmelater.com and you’ll get it back four hours later. Send it to wednesday@hitmelater.com and we’ll send it back to you the first Wednesday morning after today.
Having "re-forwarded" mail like done via the address itself takes a whole lot of b.s. out of the process of setting a reminder. This is stupidly easy and that’s just plain awesome.
As a side note, I also credit Phil with the best song in the world (yes I was the guy who said that even though I can’t link it for obvious reasons) and the best cover song in the world (that one I can link).
there is something about forwarding my email through a system like this that I dont like, its ok if you send yourself a small reminder email that has nothing of any important nature in it. i dont see how this service makes money if you never actual visit their site or anything?
I use Yahoo calender for my reminders. what’s the advantage of this?
No registration required.
It sounds great in theory, but nobody does something for nothing.. what is the kickback here? The only one I could see is e-mail harvesting to sell to spammers, or as a hook to a future pay for service. All I have ever done is paste the email into a notepad document on my desktop, then name it the date I should look at it… may sound weird, but very effective and it works.
I agree with Hal. There isn’t any way I’d forward on my personal/business/ANY email to some guy/server with the possibility of being added to spam mailing lists.
This is a surefire fail on all accounts and I’d be highly surprised if it takes off at all, even though the idea sounds kind of alright at first.
Sounds good in theory, spells out failure as the end result IHMO though.
Two words – Outlook Calendar