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One of the nagging tasks that often comes up is follow up. When you are multi-tasking, automating, and outsourcing everything, it becomes very easy to setup a task and than completely forget about it. A perfect example of out of sight, out of mind, how can you keep on top of things without dedicated brain power to it?
The Trick
I have started using a service called FollowUp.cc which is a really great free service. Basically you just cc a time period @FollowUp.cc and then it will automatically follow up with the original email to the recipient at that time. You can bcc it so that only you get a reminder or you can make followup.cc and then it simply sends you a reminder of whatever you want.
Making It Stick
These are the kind of reminders you can set:
| 12h @ = 12 hours from now | |
| 3d or 3days @ = 3 days from now | |
| sunday or aug15 @ = 3 days from now | |
| sunday-9am @ = next sunday at 9am | |
| 8am @ = the next 8am hour | |
The best part is that there is a snooze function so you can push something off for a few hours or even a few weeks.
In Short
- When sending an email, decide if you should follow up on it.
- If you should, determine the length of time until the follow up.
- Simply cc [length of time]@FollowUp.cc. If you don’t want the follow up reminder going to the person you emailed, then just use bcc.
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Hey guys, happy to see you trying our service. We've been around a long time and the product is quite mature (and getting better ;) You can also have multiple email addresses under one account and subscribe to an iCal or RSS feed. Feel free to email us if you have any questions or ideas. Thanks,Chris
Hey Chris, thanks for getting back to us. I've been a FollowUpThen user, but after Ari's write up, I'm planning on checking you out.Do you guys have any big plans for the futures or any premium features?
@followupcc I'm sure @liontex & I would love to talk about your service. I'll get some thoughts together. DM me an email address?
@Jameson We do have some great stuff planned. I'd be curious to hear what you're looking for though since our users tell us many different ideas that we have to filter through. @Bart We're friends with the creator. It's a good product if want a gui and only use Gmail's web interface, but FollowUp.cc lets you actually set the reminders on message you send, and do the snoozing as well in one click (from any interface: web, mobile, etc). So overall a more flexible product in my opinion.
This is a good one to try if you are using gmail http://www.baydin.com/boomerang4gmail/
@Bart Boomerang is on my list of things to install and check out. It looks cool, but I'm going to end up with way too many Gmail plugins pretty soon.
Ari, how does this compare to FollowUpThen? Why did you make the switch?
Wow. Time for me to make the switch then.
FollowUp.cc offers the snooze function which is killer, it also lets you login and see a calendar of all upcoming reminders.