Nudgemail is a brilliant service that we first wrote about again in 2010. Instead of placing reminders in your calendar, you ship an e-mail to Nudgemail after which get a reminder e-mail again on the time you select. However, Nudgemail has now introduced that it’s shutting down the service, at the very least quickly.

But if in case you have a contemporary e-mail service like Gmail, the identical perform is inbuilt from the beginning. It is known as Scheduling and permits you to ship emails at a later time. The primary thought, after all, is that you would be able to e-mail others at a extra handy time, however you too can use the characteristic to e-mail your self. Here’s what you do:

1. Open a brand new e-mail as ordinary and enter your personal e-mail tackle within the recipient field.
2. Write the topic within the header line and add a message if crucial. Note that this textual content solely goes to your self.
3. Instead of urgent Send click on on the arrow on the precise and choose Schedule Send.
4. You can now select a time by clicking on one of many three advised choices. If they don’t match, you may click on on Select date and time to enter one thing else.
5. The e-mail will now be despatched to your e-mail tackle on the desired time. If you wish to change something, simply click on on the heading Scheduled within the left-hand column, open the e-mail, and make your modifications.

Other e-mail companies like Microsoft Outlook and Proton Mail have related options that work the identical method.

Of course, a substitute for sending reminders through e-mail is to make use of a to-do record app. As a rule, you may schedule the objects added to the record. Google Tasks and Microsoft Todo are two in style choices.

This article was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcforalla.se.