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I used to use a service called iwantsandy. With this service I could send e-mail to a particular e-mail address and it would remind me about things. I could send an e-mail saying “remind 3 days change cat litter” and in 3 days I would get an e-mail reminding me to change the cat litter.
This was very useful for things that do not have specific calendar event times. I wouldn’t use it for a meeting reminder, I’d use the calendar for that. But if I needed to be reminded to do something sometime in the evening I would use iwantsandy.
Often I would get e-mail from people that I need to take care of later in the day or even days from now. I could leave the e-mail unread to mark it as something I need to do, but this gets annoying because I keep seeing unread messages and have to keep track of when and what has to be done. My solution was to forward e-mails to iwantsandy with a command “remind this evening” and the e-mail is out of my inbox and will be re-delivered when I actually need to handle it. Worked great.
But iwantsandy went away. I was very sad. I started to write my own replacement, but got side-tracked. I eventually found this service called Echo that did almost what I wanted. The e-mail address is echo@3mindme.com and if you simply send an e-mail message to that address it’ll reply with a help message telling you how it works. Try it out. It’s a great way to re-queue your things to do that will be delivered when you actually need to do them.
