Send Later Option in Gmail... Hold Mail Until You Release Them
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 1/2/2015 1:00:00 AM
It's your day off and eMails are piling up. You want to reply, but you don't want everyone to see you're active and keep the conversation going.
For many people, having access to mail while you're out of the office is a blessing, and a curse. Even on your day off, the more you clear out your inbox, the more people respond and you're back where you started. What's worse, now that they see you're writing emails, why not just call you too?
The solution is to hold all your replies, until you are ready to release them. The best time for that could be at the end of the day, or first thing in the morning.
There are ways to do this using programs like Outlook, and using a Blackberry, but it's not easy using Gmail.
Using Gmail, you can reply as usual, then close the editor without hitting send. Your email goes into the "Drafts" folder, but when you're ready to send them, you need to edit each one, then hit the send button. If you've been holding off your replies for a weeklong vacation, that could take a long time.
What Gmail needs is a dedicated feature that lets you queue all the emails you've written by clicking just one button, then releasing them all at once, with another simple button.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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