Email reminder, 1d@gleym.com gives you a reminder in 1 day,
Send an email to 1d@gleym.com to receive a reminder in one day, you'll get an echo of your original email. d=day, h=hour, w=week, m=month
f.x. 2d@gleym.com=2 days 1h@gleym.com=1 hour 4d1h@gleym.com=4 days and 1hour 72h@gleym.com=72 hours.
Oh cool! That rings a bell! :)
I wrote and am operating a similar service at http://remaildr.com
The implementation is open source at https://github.com/Pluies/remaildr/
The main issue I've had with this side project is the availability that wasn't so great (as monitoring was conspicuously absent from the start and I never got around to actually setting it up, but I've got plans for it!) and it was eventually caught by spam due to Spamassassin misconfiguration on my part.
So I hope you have a good process for handling spam, and fingers crossed your code crashes less often than mine :)
Neat idea. I currently use the snooze feature in the Mailbox app for reminders, so I'm not sure when I would use this.
I wonder how they deal with spoofing? Do they use the proper verification methods?
Cool. I've been wanting to build this, glad to see someone make it!
Have you seen followup.cc?
That's us!
We started out doing exactly that... send an email with a human readable date to our service, and we'll send you that email back. We also support recurring reminders (every3days@followup.cc), sending attachments directly to evernote (evernote@followup.cc), dropbox, drive, and other things: http://help.followup.cc/knowledge_base/topics/cheat-sheet
We do a lot more now, but that's still our core functionality. We also have a widely adopted Chrome Extension that also makes this a point-and-click operation, but I personally go with the text based approach.
Wish there was an example on their front page
I hear you. We have had a ton of adoption of our Chrome Extension, which also has features like Open Tracking, Send Later and Salesforce Integration. When you click to create a reminder in the extension, we do populate the "bcc" field with the text based version of the email just to show users how it works.
That said, I agree that a simple explanation on the homepage would be useful for people who are just interested in the reminder piece.