Follow up emails work
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Follow up emails work
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#2I've been using followup.cc for this purpose (among others) for the past few months and am a complete fanboy - it's a great tool for inbox-obsessed task managers like me.
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#3I love this new class of services that integrates into email workflow unobtrusively. No additional software, can use it from your cell phone, etc. One thing I've done is add the addresses to my address book with a easy-to-remember "names". That way I can just type "next week" into my BCC field and it auto-completes for me.
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#4I've been using followup.cc for this purpose (among others) for the past few months and am a complete fanboy - it's a great tool for inbox-obsessed task managers like me.
One of the founders of FollowUp.cc left a comment on the blog post explaining the service a little better to me.
Here are the major benefits of FollowUp.cc in my eyes: 1. Multiple Email accounts all in one account 2. Calendar View of reminders 3. Response Detection (cancels a follow up if a response has been sent)
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#5I'd much rather use a browser plugin, a la Rapportive. Anyone know of such a service?
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#6While I'm sure the various "follow up" services are great (I'm a pretty big Boomerang Gmail fan myself), it's also incredibly easy to roll your own solution to this problem using gmail filters.
When sending a message that needs a followup, BCC yourself - something like myname+followup@gmail.com. Then setup a filter that labels/stars/etc all messages to myname+followup, and you'll have a nice queue of messages that need to be checked for responses.
Once I started tracking this, I was absolutely blown away by the percent of emails I send that get ignored. I'm not selling anything, but still get <50% response rate.
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#7I'd much rather use a browser plugin, a la Rapportive. Anyone know of such a service?
Boomerang Gmail for Google Chrome/Gmail is great (but a bit pricey).
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#8I love the idea (and simplicity of it) but isn't this basically forwarding each scheduled message to follow up service? Seems like a little too much trust involved for me.
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#9Definitely, an interesting idea. I do a ton of follow-up emailing and it's crucial because because the first email often falls through the cracks. Plus, dealing with several different follow-up tabs on my gmail isn't nearly as efficient and Followupthen. My only concern is that it wouldn't be as easy for me to get an overview of my current email situation if I didn't have everything tabbed.
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#10While I'm sure the various "follow up" services are great (I'm a pretty big Boomerang Gmail fan myself), it's also incredibly easy to roll your own solution to this problem using gmail filters. When sending a message that needs a followup, BCC yourself - something like myname+followup@gmail.com. Then setup a filter that labels/stars/etc all messages to myname+followup, and you'll have a nice queue of messages that ne…
GMail also has a "fancy stars" lab plugin that makes flagging mails that need follow-up very easy. The advantage to your approach, admittedly, is that it works in any email client, not just GMail's web app.