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Reschedule your followup

If you have questions on date formatting, please have a look at the below list, or visit our interactive How To Use page to experiment with date formats.
Time Formats

Here are examples of some of the scheduling formats you can use. There are many more however! Use the below dates as a starting point. Experiment more on the How To Use Page.
Time Interval

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[email protected]

Abbreviations work as well

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

A few more abbreviations – this time with the short domain.

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Specific Time of Day

Follows up on the next occurrence of the specified time.

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[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Specific Date

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Specific Date and Time

Note the use of the period (.) in some of the examples to clarify different parts of the date where needed.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Day of Week

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[email protected]
[email protected]

Unique Days of Month

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[email protected]
[email protected]

Handy Scheduling Terms

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[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Recurring Reminders

Daily reminders

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[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Weekly reminders

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] (includes a text message)

Monthly reminders

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] (Hour must come first with 24hr in this context)
[email protected] (Hour-first works with 12hr time as well)
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Yearly reminders

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected] (Hour must come first with 24 hr time in this context)

Reminders at custom intervals

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[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Tasks

This feature is perfect for keeping important tasks at the top of the stack until they're marked as complete. Like your very own, exceedingly persistent, personal assistant.

Unlike normal followups, tasks will continue to followup every 24 hours until marked as complete (or cancelled). Create a task by adding -t to the end of the followup time.

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[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Tasks can be assigned to yourself, or someone else. To assign a task to yourself, use the 'to' or 'bcc' fields. To assign a task to someone else, send them an email and put the format in the 'cc' field.

Here is an example that illustrates what will happen when you assign a task to someone else:

To: Reilly
Subject: Write blog post about new feature
CC: [email protected]

Result: This task has been assigned to Reilly. Both he and the sender will an email confirming the task which also includes links to complete or cancel it. In 3 days, if Reilly has not yet marked the task as complete, an email will be sent to both Reilly and the sender. At this point, either Reilly or the sender can choose to cancel or complete the task. If both do neither, another reminder will be sent in 24 hours. If Reilly marks the task as complete, the original sender will get a notification. Again, if neither party completes or cancels the task, a 3rd reminder will be sent in 24 hours, and so on.

Note: Tasks does not yet work as recurring reminders.
SMS Reminders

Premium users can add "-sms" to their followups to receive text message reminders. SMS reminders can be combined with tasks and recurring reminders as well. For example:

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[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Calendar Integration

Premium users can view their followups right on their calendar using a calendar feed. Login and visit your calendar page to learn more.
Viewing, Editing and Canceling Reminders

Viewing and editing:

Just email [email protected]. Within a few seconds, you'll receive a return email containing your pending followups, together with links to edit or cancel them.

Premium users can also manage their followups through a simple web interface.

Canceling shortcut:

There is a handy shortcut to cancel a followup: Simply forward a message later on that thread to [email protected].

This works by searching for followups with matching subjects (minus the "Fwd:", "Re:", etc). If found, we'll cancel it on the spot (and will let you know). If more than one matching followup is found, we'll respond with a list of matching followups. You can decide which to cancel from there.
Time Saving Tips

Adding the FollowUpThen vCard to your address book will save loads of time. Instead of typing full FollowUpThen addresses, your email program will auto-complete them as you start typing.

Our short domain @fut.io is also a great way to save on keystrokes. It works just like the full domain (for example, [email protected], [email protected], etc only shorter!

More questions? Visit our how to use page...
How To Use