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FollowUpThen updates with new "pending" feature, date formats
FollowUpThen, one of my favorite productivity tools, has been updated this morning with some new goodies! The most useful new feature (for me, at least) is that I can now see any pending follow-ups by sending a blank email to pending@followupthen.com, and I can also cancel them right from the email itself (as you can see above).
They also added a couple of new scheduling formats, such as day of the week or date specific reminders (for example, tuesday@followupthen.com or mar24@followupthen.com) and short-term reminders (15minutes@followupthen.com). I'm not quite sure what the short-term ones are useful for, but I will probably end up using the other ones quite a bit.
The emails are still clean of any trace of advertising. My sole concern with the service is that I cannot host it locally -- so, I still need to trust them with my emails. I know they have a nice TOS and privacy policy, and they seem like reputable people. However, breaches do happen, and security (by definition) can never be perfect. Having a local FollowUpThen could be very handy. It's too bad that nothing of the sort exists.
Or does it, dear readers?
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Subscribe to commentsChrisApr 28th 2010 12:29PM
Cool to see that they're iterating on their product. I have to point out though, that my service FollowUp.cc, http://www.followup.cc, which came out long before theirs, has had this reminder syntax all along, and is a much more full featured site while retaining its lightweight usage.
You can one click snooze reminders, manage them on a calendar, subscribe to RSS and iCal feeds of them, and even update existing reminders by setting a new one on your threads as the conversation evolves. Definitely worth checking out if you like this service.
Chris
Erez ZukermanApr 28th 2010 1:54PM
You know what would be cool, Chris? If you released your source (even for money, or with a personal-use-only license), so people (such as myself) would be able to install it locally. That would really rock. :)
vadik_21Apr 28th 2010 10:42PM
You can also try using this Outlook email reminder. It's a plugin that lets your right click on your email and choose when you want to get back to it. Completely secure.