FollowUpThen: The World’s Simplest Email Reminder And Personal Followup Assistant
I love sharing some productivity tools I use to manage the massive inflow of emails I receive.
Today, I’m sharing FollowUpThen. Here’s a great example of how I use it. We’re working with a prospect or client, and they email me and let me know that they’d like to connect with me, but they’ll be out of town or are finishing up a project. They ask if I can connect in a couple of weeks.
FollowUpThen
No problem; I forward the email to 2weeks@followupthen.com. FollowUpThen then schedules the email to come back to me two weeks later. No setting reminders on my calendar or adding another task to my task list… just a few seconds to forward the email.
FollowUpThen even makes it simple by responding to your initial registration with a Reply To All email that adds the most common emails that you’ll be using. This way, they autocomplete in your email client!
To start using FollowUpThen, compose an email and include [any time]@followupthen.com in your email’s CC, BCC, or TO fields. Each method is a bit different:
- BCC You receive a follow-up regarding the email, but FollowUpThen won’t email the original recipient.
- TO Sends an email to your future self.
- CC Schedules a reminder for you and the recipient.
FollowUpThen Email Addresses
Here are all the email addresses that you can utilize for your follow-up reminders:
Time Interval
- 1minute@followupthen.com
- 2hours@followupthen.com
- 3days@followupthen.com
- 4weeks@followupthen.com
- 5months@followupthen.com
- 6years@followupthen.com
Abbreviations work as well:
- 3m@followupthen.com (3 months)
- 30min@followupthen.com (30 minutes)
- 2h@followupthen.com
- 3d@followupthen.com
You can also use their short URL
- 4w@fut.io
- 5mo@fut.io
- 6y@fut.io
Specific Time of Day
Follows up on the next occurrence of the specified time.
- 11am@followupthen.com
- 1132am@followupthen.com
- 1630@followupthen.com
- 1500@followupthen.com
Specific Date
- mar30@followupthen.com
- 22april@followupthen.com
- 1Jan2022@followupthen.com
- December2nd@followupthen.com
- December2nd2022@followupthen.com
Specific Date and Time
Avoid putting the numbers together directly when combining different parts of a date. Separate them with a “th” or “nd”. For example, April29th2024@fut.io, not April292024 does not.
- 12pmAug25@followupthen.com
- Aug25At12pm@followupthen.com
- 1300.7.Aug.2022@followupthen.com
- September14.3pm@followupthen.com
- 9amSept14th2022@followupthen.com
- 9amTomorrow@followupthen.com
Day of Week
- tuesday@followupthen.com
- tues@followupthen.com
- monday3pm@followupthen.com
Unique Days of Month
- LastDayOfMonth@followupthen.com
- 3rdThursday@followupthen.com
- 2ndFri@followupthen.com
Handy Scheduling Terms
- tomorrow@followupthen.com
- nextweek@followupthen.com
- nextmonth@followupthen.com
- am@followupthen.com
- pm@followupthen.com
- tonight@followupthen.com
- noon@followupthen.com
Recurring Reminders
Daily reminders
- every1pm@followupthen.com
- every6am-sms@followupthen.com
- everyDay630am@followupthen.com
- everyDay1600@followupthen.com
- 6pmDaily@followupthen.com
- Daily1800@followupthen.com
- daily5pm@followupthen.com
- weekdays5pm@followupthen.com
- weekdays9am@followupthen.com
Weekly reminders
- everywed@followupthen.com
- everywed630pm@followupthen.com
- everywednesday1600@followupthen.com
- everyMonday9am-sms@followupthen.com (includes a text message)
Monthly reminders
- every15th@followupthen.com
- every1st8am@followupthen.com
- 1600every1st@followupthen.com (Hour must come first with 24hr in this context)
- 8amEvery14th@followupthen.com (Hour-first works with 12hr time as well)
- monthly@followupthen.com
- every2ndTuesday@followupthen.com
- every1stFriday4pm@followupthen.com
- 1600every1stFriday@followupthen.com
- LastFridayOfMonth@followupthen.com
- LastDayOfMonth@followupthen.com
Yearly reminders
- everyMarch30th@followupthen.com
- everyMarch30th11am@followupthen.com
- every11amMar30@followupthen.com
- 11amEveryMarch30th@followupthen.com
- 1600everyMarch30th@followupthen.com (Hour must come first with 24 hr time in this context)
Reminders at custom intervals
- every12hours@followupthen.com
- every2years@followupthen.com
- every3months@followupthen.com
- every1hour@followupthen.com
Delay the start of a recurring reminder
- every2weeksStartingJan21st@followupthen.com
- every3rdTuesdayStartingIn6Weeks@followupthen.com
You can also log in to their site and see your pending reminders! If you want calendar integrations, SMS reminders, and response detection or want to set up a team, FollowUpThen provides some affordable upsell packages.
Sign Up For A Free FollowUpThen Account
