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Showing posts with label Email Tricks. Show all posts

How to Schedule emails to send in future

You never know if you will have time in nearby future. There are two instances, once when you are having enough time and no work to do and the other when you are not having time and you are having huge workload. During the times of heavy workload, there can be instances when you forget to do important things which you should have done.
Let’s say you didn’t mailed your friend for his birthday. So, what to do then? To keep yourself on a safer side you can schedule your mails when you are free.

 How to Schedule emails for sending them in future.


Boomerang for Gmail

There is a plugin, names Boomerang for Gmail which is available both for Firefox and Chrome which will help you to Schedule emails. This plugin is compatible with Gmail and using this you can take control of sending and receiving emails at desired time in your Gmail account.

 How to Install Boomerang

  • Open your Google chrome or Firefox Browser and visit the Boomerang website by clicking Here.
  • Once you have visited the website, click on the Install Boomerang button which is present on the website and the installation will be started.
  • You will come across a couple of steps, follow those steps and your installation will be done.
  • Once the installation has been completed, the next time you will open Gmail, Boomerang will be automatically enabled.

How to use Boomerang

  • Using Boomerang is very easy as the interface of this plugin is very user friendly. Read the guide below on how you can use Boomerang on your Gmail account to Schedule emails.
  • Compose email like you normally do.
  • On the Compose page right next to the Send button you will see a new button named Send Later. This is the button which will help you to send email later.
  • Choose the date and time as per your schedule, whenever you want to send the email.

Additional Features

Schedule Recurring Message :There is one great feature which comes with Boomerang and that feature is that you can schedule recurring messages to anyone on periodic basis. Let’s say you are working in a project and you are the project leader and each week you need to ask your team member about the progress report of the project. Using Boomerang you can schedule that message using the Schedule Recurring Message feature. You will see the option to schedule recurring messages once you click on the Send later Button.
Deal with emails later: Sometimes we don’t want to read the emails we received at that time. Boomerang will remind you to read the received mail at the time you have set. If you have sent an email to your entire team and you want that the person who is max qualified in your team should reply to It but he fails to reply it then you will be get notified.

How to send large files through email – Explained

A lot of internet users send files via emails. However there is one problem and that is that you can only send files with limited sizes. Let’s take example of Gmail. Gmail allows its users to send maximum data attachments of 25 MB.
This is definitely not enough if you are sending your birthday pictures or a video to your friends or family members. So, what to do? No worries, Yes you can send large files through email Easily

You can use websites like dropbox, where you can upload files and share the link of those uploaded files to your friends but unfortunately websites like dropbox comes with some restrictions with first being not free, advertisements and less security.
Google Drive by Google is the best option to upload your files and send them to your family members, friends. It acts as a Cloud drive. Most of us are having a Gmail account, you can use the same Gmail account if you are willing to use Google Drive and with that Gmail account you will get 5GB of free space.

How to send large files through email


Follow this step by step tutorial for sending large files via email.
Step 1: First of all you need to visit Google Drive and sign in with your Google account Credentials.
Step 2: Once you are logged in you can start uploading your data. Click in the upload button which is present right next to create.
While uploading any file you can view the status of the upload by looking at the status window which is present at the bottom right corner of your computer screen. You can even place more than one file for uploading at a time.
Step 3: Once the upload has been completed you can easily share them with your friends, family members or even office colleagues. Click on the Share link to set the sharing settings of the file which you want to share. You can decide if you want to make that file private or public. Click on Who Can Access under Change menu to change the file status. Step 4: You can send the files directly by emailing them from Google Drive. In the Sharing settings menu of a particular file you will see options which will include sending file via email and via social networking websites like Twitter, Facebook.
Google Drive also comes with one great feature and using this feature you can also limit the people to only view the files and not comment or you can give them permissions to comment or edit the files.
If you want to share files of your project with your team, upload the files and grab the link and share them with your entire team. You can even use Google Drive on smartphones as it is available both for Apple and Android operating systems.
There are other websites which are similar to Google Drive but provide a little less features:-

So now you know how to send large files through email Easily and quickly, then take advantage of it.