FutureMe.org

FutureMe.org allows you to send yourself an email time capsule at any date up to 30 years in the future. Optionally, your message is posted anonymously on the site. As a registered FutureMe.org user, you can change the address to receive future emails should yours change.

"Dear FutureMe, 30 years ago today you were about to send your now present me a message. You wondered whether it would matter. Of course, it did not, right? And, of course, it did. It mattered in a myriad of impossibly small ways, making me the happy you I am today, like everything else did."

With FutureMe.org, you can send yourself emails that will be delivered at a specific date, up to 30 years from when you are writing them. You could remind yourself of the dreams you once had (only to find out they're way behind you now), as a general memory pool (the contrast of what you now think about your current situation and what you will remember about it in a few years can be stark), to send yourself birthday greetings, and as a classic exercise for the here and now, of course: where do you see yourself in five years?

The problem and the beauty with FutureMe.org is that the emails will actually be delivered in five years... it does not even help to change email addresses as FutureMe.org let's you update the address to which future messages will be delivered.

For extra kicks, you can make the emails to your future me public. Anybody can read them on FutureMe.org, and you can find out about other people's dreams, ideas and worries (seen from the imagined distance of a few years), too.