Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar

Have you ever wanted to send yourself an email to be delivered sometime in the future - in a year's time? Well there are a number of services such as FutureMe that allow you to send email messages with a future delivery date. However there's no guarantee that the email will get delivered, the service itself may even exist when the time comes! The risks are less with a flagship Google service such as Google Calendar. which you can use to email you (or even send a free SMS) a message on a date of your choice. Just write you message in the "description" area of the calendar entry.

This technique can be used to send yourself or to your students:

• New vocab/phrases/clips/pieces of info each day
• Motivational messages and of course...
• Reminders (e.g. to help stay on track with a study plan)

If you have a large number of phrases then put them in a (Google Apps) spreadsheet and import them. I'll show how to do this in the next post.

The only drawback to this method that I know of is that the emails arrive formatted as a reminder. It still makes for a useful technique in my opinion.

Send Yourself an Email in the Future Using Google Calendar

Import Google Spreadsheets to Google Calendar

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