Ever forgotten something that you had to do, even though you had every reminder in the world set up so you wouldn't forget? Or how about forgetting to set up reminders in the first place? If you have trouble finding time to urinate during the days you work, odds are, both of these things has happened to you.
HitMeLater is a "snooze button for your email". This is an app with absolutely no web-based functionality: it's entirely email based. Simply forward your email that you know you're going to forget about, or need a reminder set for, to 10@hitmelater.com, where "10" is the number of hours later you would like the email resent to you at the email address that you send it from. To go one step further, you can send an email to friday@hitmelater.com and you'll get the email resent to you "first thing" Friday morning.
Like most terrific apps that I admire, this has no sign-up feature, so you can try it out right now if you'd like.
Check out the fabulous walkthrough (direct link to video):
| Does the app fulfill its intended purpose? | 10 |
| How clean and simplistic is the UI? | 10 |
| Is the app forward thinking and innovative? | 9 |
| How re-usable is the app? | 9 |
| Overall | 9.5 |
My only critisism with HitMeLater is that I think they could add more functionality to it. For instance, if they added a unit of time to the email address it would allow users to get more precise reminders. So if I wanted to be reminded in 10 minutes, I should be able to email 10min@hitmelater.com. A specific time would be great as well, such as 8pm@hitmelater.com.
But the big picture is that an app like this should have been made a long time ago. Its simplistic and highly useful functionality is so wonderful, I can tell you I will certainly be using this at work tomorrow.
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UPDATE // 8.20.08 @ 5:29pm: HitMeLater creator Philip "Pud" Kaplan commented stating that certain features such as including units like minutes, weeks, and months is accepted in the email address, so 10min@hitmelater.com works, thus upping the awesome level of this app to "ninja". Hm, I think I just got my idea for a new ranking system. Thanks Pud!
3 comments:
Thanks for the great post! HitMeLater has many undocumented features that you described. 10min@hitmelater.com works!
Also try 2weeks@hitmelater, 4months@hitmelater, 3years@hitmelater, etc..
working on sept28@hitmelater.. and 8pm@hitmelater is a great idea too.
Oh wow, awesome! Just posted the update.
Glad you liked it, and thanks for the additional information on the functionality of HitMeLater.
This looks really cool, though things like this make me a little nervous.
Just because the site states they have a privacy policy that stores your emails on a secure server and are read by no one but yourself, doesn't make it so. How do I know that in addition to providing this cool service they aren't also using site to collect email addresses?
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