The Bottom Line
Pros
- HitMeLater lets you get emails out of the way for a while
- You can have the messages forwarded back to you after certain hours or days
- HitMeLater, accepting emails at addresses that act as operators, is easy to use
Cons
- HitMeLater does not remove forwarding formatting
- The snoozed emails come from HitMeLater instead of the original sender
- HitMeLater could understand operators, maybe repeating schedules
Description
- HitMeLater lets you mute emails.
- You forward any email to HitMeLater. At the specified time, it is forwarded back to your inbox.
- To set when you want HitMeLater to return the message, alter the address to which you forward.
- You can choose either numbers for snoozing hours or the weekday on which you want the email back.
Guide Review - HitMeLater - Email Snoozing Service
The solution, obviously, are fewer commitments that excite us more. The occasional email that will be more relevant tomorrow than it is today can happily wait in the pristine inbox.
Even if your inbox is not yet pristine, HitMeLater can make you wait happily — by making the emails wait outside the inbox. When their time comes, they'll pop up automatically again.
HitMeLater does that by accepting the emails you want out of the way as forwards, holding them, and then forwarding them back to you. You specify for how long you want to snooze an email in the HitMeLater address to which you forward: numbers are for hours, and you can use weekdays, too; 24@hitmelater.com returns the email tomorrow, tuesday@hitmelater.com next Tuesday.
Using HitMeLater could hardly be easier. More shortcuts might be nice, though, for expressions like "tom", "next+week" or "sat+morning". Maybe HitMeLater could learn to repeatedly nag about emails, too.
The emails that come back from HitMeLater are, alas, not so easy to handle. HitMeLater does not remove any formatting your email program may ads to forwards. Worse, the messages come from a HitMeLater address instead of the original sender. HitMeLater does not set the Reply-To header either, so you may have to hunt for the original message to reply cleanly and easily.
A way to access held email before it's due, though useful it may be, would probably complicate a perfectly simple and useful service needlessly.
