After drafting an Email, if we want to send it later, then we have to wait for till that time. Scheduling of Email will sort out your problem. This function allows you to Schedule Email to Send Gmail to a recipient at any time. For Gmail, there is an awesome add-on: “Boomerang For Gmail” for Google Chrome, Firefox Browser, Opera, Safari etc.
Apart from scheduling the Emails, “Boomerang For Gmail” provides you many other functionalities. In this Article, we will discuss the complete function of “Boomerang” which you can exploit for scheduling Email to send Later and more.
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Functions of “Boomerang For Gmail” Add-on:
- Schedule Email to Send Later In Gmail
- Set-up Email Reminders
- Boomerang Remind You if you don’t hear back
In this article, we will discuss the following Topic as under:
A. Watch Live Video Tutorial – Schedule Email, Set Reminder & Track Email
B. How To Install Boomerang For Gmail Add-on
C. Functions of “Boomerang For Gmail” Add-on:-
- Schedule Email to Send Later In Gmail
- Set-up Email Reminders 3. Boomerang Remind You if you don’t hear back
- Boomerang Remind You if you don’t hear back
A. Watch Live Video Tutorial – Schedule Email, Set Reminder & Track Email
B. How To Install Boomerang For Gmail Add-on
Boomerang for Gmail is one of the awesome tools which allows you to do various operations. altogether.
To install this Awesome tool, First Click Here to go the official website of “Boomerang For Gmail”. Now click on “Add this to your Gmail” button. It will add an Extension/Add-on in your browser and whenever you will open Gmail it will automatically embed with your Gmail accounts. That’s It. Also, refer GIF Image given below:
C. Functions of “Boomerang For Gmail” Add-on:
1. Schedule Email to Send Later In Gmail
Steps to do this task is straightforward, just follow the steps given below and also refer attached GIF Image:
Step 1: Log In to your Gmail Account and Click on “Compose” button and prepare your email.
Step 2: On the bottom, One “Send Later” Button will appear due to “Boomerang” tool. Click on “Send Later” button and set the desired time & date to which this email to be sent & click on “Confirm” button.
Step 3: After that, the message will be in Boomerang box and you will also see a message “Message will be sent on <Your Time & Date>” as shown in Image no. 4 of above GIF Image.
Step 4: Now, at the scheduled date & time your message/email will be sent automatically.
Note: You can also “schedule recurring message” by just clicking on “Send Later” button, as shown in the image given below.
2. Set-up Email Reminders
“Boomerang” helps you to track the Important emails in your Gmail Inbox. You can set reminders for your important mail/message and boomerang will archive that email from your inbox and show you at the specific time set by you. That Email will come out to your inbox as “Unread, Starred Marked and with a remark “Boomerang Returned” and on top of your Inbox”.
So, Let’s check out the simple steps to do it:
Step 1: Go to your Gmail Inbox and select the E-mail by clicking on “Check-box” just before of e-mails, for which you want to set reminders.
Step 2: After the selection, “Boomerang” icon will appear on the bar placed just above, as shown in Image No.3 of below GIF Image.
Just click on this icon and set the desired time and click on “Confirm button”. Now this Email will be removed from your Inbox and get archived by the Boomerang. It will now appear at the set specific time only.
3. Boomerang Remind You if you don’t hear back
This is one of the unique features of this tool. Earlier, we have explained you about Tracking of Emails in our earlier articles as:
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But, Boomerang helps you to track or follow up your sent emails to your recipients. If you are expecting some reply from your recipient and did not get in a specific time period, then this tool will remind you about the same. Similarly, if your recipient did not open, click, any reply or others, this will let you know within a specific time frame set by you.
Let’s See the simple steps to do this task:
Step 1: Compose any email and click on “If no reply” menu, there are 3 other option –” if not clicked”, “if not opened” and “regardless”, Just select any one of them as required.
Step 2: Now, just set the specific time, after which you want to be reminded about the same if the selected option not performed by the recipient. and click on “Send button” as usual.
Step 3: If the selected option was not performed by the recipient in the specific time period, you will get that sent email in your Inbox again and remind you about the same. In this manner, you can follow up or track your emails.
For example, we have selected “if no reply” option and set a specific time. In the recipient inbox, we have Clicked & opened that sent email, as shown in Image no.4 of above GIF Image, but did not reply to the sender. After Expiry of set time, that email will automatically appear in Sender Inbox with, that will remind the sender for the same.
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