Send Later in Mail can be used as a Tickler File
We have the Remind Me and Follow-up features in Mail, which could be useful for email follow-ups, but there are problems with them.
- Remind Me only works for emails in the inbox, so if I archive an email, it just silently moves the email to the top of the Archive.
- Follow-up is a black box, driven by AI, and there is no way to set it up manually for specific emails that I want to track.
- It is 3 days by default, but I’m not sure if it works for every email sent.
- I also use a GTD waiting for list to track items waiting for reply. → 2.7.8
Instead, I can leverage the fact that Mail has excellent conversations view, so the Send Later feature can resurface any thread by just scheduling a message which is forwarded to myself.
I have a separate “Inbox” contact card with the +captured
text appended to the email address, so when I want to remind myself about a message, I can just forward it to this address with Schedule Later feature.
It will reappear in my inbox resurfacing the whole conversation. I can also add my own notes to a forwarded message in a thread which acts a bit like the poor men’s version of HEY’s sticky notes.