{"id":2311,"date":"2010-08-23T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T07:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2010-08-23T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T08:22:37","slug":"e-mail-scheduling-coming-to-gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2010\/08\/23\/e-mail-scheduling-coming-to-gmail\/","title":{"rendered":"E-mail Scheduling Coming to Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally: E-mail scheduling coming to Gmail<br \/>\nNo, not from Google, but from a browser plug-in called <strong>Boomerang <\/strong>for Gmail. <\/p>\n<p>A company called <strong>Baydin <\/strong>sells a $14.95 product for Outlook called Boomerang for Outlook, which enables you to reschedule the delivery of e-mails you&#8217;ve received and also to schedule the sending of e-mails for some specific time in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Boomerang for Outlook, which I have not tried, adds convenience. But Outlook doesn&#8217;t need e-mail scheduling, because that functionality is already built-in.<\/p>\n<p>Gmail, on the other hand, desperately needs it. Which is why <strong>Baydin&#8217;s Boomerang for Gmail<\/strong> will probably be very welcome. The product is a browser plug-in for both Firefox and Chrome currently in beta mode. If you sign up at the Baydin site, they&#8217;ll send you an invitation code. Or so they say. I&#8217;m still waiting for mine.<\/p>\n<p>To use Boomerang, just click on a &#8220;Receive Later&#8221; button that the plug in adds. Then you select a date and time. Boomerang moves your message into Archives until the specified time, at which point it moves it back into your inbox, marks it &#8220;unread&#8221; and puts a star on it.<\/p>\n<p>When in Gmail&#8217;s Compose mode, Boomerang offers a &#8220;Send Later&#8221; button. Clicking it lets you choose exactly when. <\/p>\n<p>Read more @ http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/internet\/117967\/finally-e-mail-scheduling-coming-gmail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally: E-mail scheduling coming to Gmail No, not from Google, but from a browser plug-in called Boomerang for Gmail. A company called Baydin sells a $14.95 product for Outlook called Boomerang for Outlook, which enables you to reschedule the delivery of e-mails you&#8217;ve received and also to schedule the sending of e-mails for some specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167,3],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","tag-internet","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}