Are you usually reluctant to manage your emails because it’s so overwhelming that you’d rather have somebody shoot you in the face? Well, it does NOT have to be that way. Thing is, you can install the Boomerang gmail add-on that allows you to handle your email like a boss. You’ll never have to constantly use your Google Calendar over and over again. For starters, it’s not exactly convenient for email reminders. And secondly, there’s a better way to do that. Before we go any further, I godda tell you one thing. It’s not a free add-on, but it’s totally worth it if you have to wade through your email inbox day in and day out.
Installing is a Snap
You just can go to BoomerangGmail.com and click the red Install Boomerang button. It’ll download a small extension file. Now you need to double-click it for installing. Now you can just login to your gmail account and start to happily use it.
As a side note, keep in mind that it works for Chrome, Firefox and Safari.
Make it Fast
In case you use Google Calendar or any other calendar app for that matter, you probably know how daunting it is to create email reminders. You should specify all the details that you’ll need to figure out what it’s all about once you get a calendar notification. It goes without saying that there are situations when it’s totally perfect to use a calendar application, but it’s not the case for the most part.
Main Features
With Boomerang for Gmail, you’ll be able to just specify when you want to be notified (in a specific amount of hours, days, weeks, months, or even years!) or, better else, just set a specific date in the built-in calendar. Alternatively, should you not be exactly sure when you want to deal with that specific issue, you can randomize the time when you want to get a reminder. Plus you can define within what kind of time span you want to be notified, such as today by 5 o’clock, within a week or a month. So, you can really fine tune the behavior of Gmail Boonerang to meet your personal or business needs.
Keep it Simple
What’s more, you can set it to be triggered only if nobody replied to your message so that it does not bother you if the person that you were trying to reach by email actually already replied and you took care of the issue that you needed to sort out. Thus, your email inbox will NEVER be cluttered up with unnecessary and just outdated junk.
Notes
The kickassery of the whole shebang is that you just need to click a few buttons instead of typing all that jazz manually. What you most def need to use in the Boomerang for Gmail add-on is notes. It’s a HUGE time savior because once you get nonfiction with a really long email message history, you kinda start thinking that you rather jump off the window right this minute… but life is good guys. Just make sure that once you set the add-on to remind you about something to also use the Notes feature to create a note that shortly describes that whole situation with the email thread in question, what you already did and what you need to do after receiving the reminder. It’ll save you a whole lot of time because you’ll know what it’s all about right off the bat. And that’s instead of re-reading all the message history that can take you anything form a minute or two to half an hour (in case you also need to double-check all sorts of facts from that email).
Android Boomerang App for Gmail
You can also install the Android Boomerang App for Gmail that allows you to manage your email while on the go. You’ll be able to easily archive and delete your message. Also, you have the option to mark as important and change labels of your messages. That said, the whole app is focused around the main feature of Boomerang for Gmail which is setting email reminds in the most convenient way possible. Slide, tap and off you go.
In Conclusion
All in all, it’s a pretty neat extension and app that makes it possible to really simplify the life to those of us who deal with a slew of email messages on a daily basis. While the browser extension is pretty much what it’s supposed to be, the Android app leaves a slight feeling of incompleteness.
