Email represents a very important and widely used form of communication today. It is very useful for its ease, speed and for being available on practically any device. We can easily send and receive emails from mobile phones, computers and other devices. There are many email platforms that we have at our disposal. A wide range of possibilities that allow us to be in contact with friends and family, as well as use it for commercial purposes. But if there is a very popular and used service, it is Gmail. The Google platform is the one with the most users in user around the world today. In this article we are going to explain how to schedule an email in Gmail .
Options for scheduling an email
It should be
mentioned that there are several options. We have both external
applications and the Gmail platform itself to schedule
emails. If we focus on external applications, they can also give us
additional options such as keeping track of the shipment. We can, among
other things, know if the recipient has already opened the mail we have sent.
The reasons why it may
be interesting to schedule an email are very varied. For
example, it can be useful if we want to send an email at a time when a company
begins to operate. In this way we make sure that our email is read
correctly and is not forgotten. Also if, for example, we have to register
for a limited registration after a certain time and we do not want to forget
and stay out.
In short, there
are many reasons why it can be interesting to program an email. Luckily in
Gmail we can do it easily. We have several options for this. We are
going to begin to detail some of them, as well as explain how to program an
email in Gmail from the platform itself.
Schedule an email in Gmail with MailTag
There are many
extensions that we have available for the main browsers. They allow us to
get improvements and added things that can be very interesting for our day to
day. And yes, for Gmail there are also interesting extensions.
One of these
extensions is MailTag . Its main function is to
schedule an email. We can put an email to be sent to a certain contact at
a certain time and day. Something that many users may find very useful. But
in addition to that, it also allows us to track that email in real time.
MailTag allows us
to know whether or not the recipient has opened the email that
we have sent. We can even configure notifications to notify us when that
email has been opened or to know how many times it has been opened. A way
to have more control over the emails we send.
All of this comes
in a very graphic way. We can consult all the data through the MailTag
extension .
Boomerang, an extension to schedule an email
Another extension
similar to the previous one is the Boomerang . It
allows us to schedule an email with Gmail and send it at a specific time that
we choose. It is perfect for not forgetting to send an important message
on a certain day, for example.
But in addition to
allowing to schedule the sending of an email, Boomerang
also offers the ability to track that email. As in the previous extension,
we will be able to know when an email has been opened.
We can add this
extension from the official Google Chrome store . As
always, we recommend downloading this type of program from stores and official
pages. We must avoid doing it from third-party sites as they could
compromise the security of our devices.
How to schedule an email from Gmail
A final option is
to schedule an email from the Gmail platform itself . It is
undoubtedly the simplest and fastest, since we do not need to install any
external tool. This is something that Gmail has taken time to add but has
been available for a few weeks now.
We can use this
option in the Web version , as well as in mobile devices. We
can easily schedule an email to be sent. It is very useful if we are going
to send an email but we want it to reach another person at a certain time and
date.
To use this tool is
very simple. We simply go to the option to send an email in Gmail and in
the send button we will see a drop-down arrow. Here it will show us the
option to schedule the shipment.
By default some options will appear: tomorrow morning, tomorrow
afternoon or Monday morning. However, we can give the option below, to
choose the date and time.
When we enter this
option we can grant a specific date , as well as a specific
time. This is very useful, since we can completely customize the date on
which that email will be sent. For the rest, it works as if we were
sending an email at the moment. We can attach files, etc.
In short, these
are the options we have to schedule an email in Gmail. We have shown two
external tools and also the possibility of doing it from the Gmail platform
itself.
