My next level use of Boomerang is that I now *write the email I'm going to send* then schedule it to arrive in my inbox on the date I said I'd send them a reminder. It's because I used to just boomerang the email, but found the friction of having to remember what it was, what I wanted to say to them, etc, to be too much.
So now I hit reply, take their email out of the "To" line and replace it with my own, write whatever it was I want to write to them in six months time or whatever, and in the subject line write "This is a potential client who might pay you to do something fun!" or whatever it is to entice myself, then schedule it for the day I want to email them.
On the day, I can just dig out their last email, hit reply, copy/paste the new text (doing Shift+Command+V to take the formatting off, because: gmail) , then send it off! Present Me is always grateful to Past Me for her mental, emotional and physical labour!
My next level use of Boomerang is that I now *write the email I'm going to send* then schedule it to arrive in my inbox on the date I said I'd send them a reminder. It's because I used to just boomerang the email, but found the friction of having to remember what it was, what I wanted to say to them, etc, to be too much.
So now I hit reply, take their email out of the "To" line and replace it with my own, write whatever it was I want to write to them in six months time or whatever, and in the subject line write "This is a potential client who might pay you to do something fun!" or whatever it is to entice myself, then schedule it for the day I want to email them.
On the day, I can just dig out their last email, hit reply, copy/paste the new text (doing Shift+Command+V to take the formatting off, because: gmail) , then send it off! Present Me is always grateful to Past Me for her mental, emotional and physical labour!
I am literally speechless. This is brilliant.