Love em or hate em but emails are here to stay. Even in the age of instant messages on Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, emails still hold a place in our digital lives.
That being said, many users have often wondered about sending scheduled messages. Over the years, tools and applications have been engineered to help users send messages automatically at any specific day or time chosen by the users.
There’s a new tool for scheduling emails in town. And this one seems pretty feature-rich and simple enough to use. Boomerang for Gmail may just be what you need to schedule your emails. Plus it does much, much more.
Boomerang is a free Gmail plugin for your Firefox or Google Chrome browser. It is a tool which not only lets you schedule emails but also publish them when it makes the most sense for your readers.
Lets take a look at its features.
This innovative feature includes sending messages at just the right time. It also alerts you when people have not responded to your messages.
Once you have installed it and permitted it to access your Gmail account, Boomerang adds a “Send Later” button on top of the composed messages which resides next to Google’s own “Send” button.
Upon pressing “Send Later”, you can choose a specific time on a specific day to schedule the message. A feature such as this can come very handy, especially over the weekend or during off-hours, when you would like your email to be sent when it is more likely to be noticed by the receiver.
Assessing when it is appropriate for you to read which messages, the tool takes out messages from the inbox and returns them on top of your message pile at a later time.
The Boomerang Respondable feature appears on the right side of the messages you are composing. It allows you get an instant prediction of how likely your message is to get a response based on the quality of your current email.
This trick is backed by machine learning trained on millions messages, which improves its effectiveness and efficiency. It also determines various things, from assessing whether the subject length is appropriate to determining the ‘politeness’ level in your message.
The recommendations can be found under the help (question mark) of each field. Each recommendation is updated in real-time giving you more details on how to improve your email further.
So the next time you want to send an email with just the ‘right’ elements, Respondable may help you out in the following ways:
Research indicates that an email’s length plays a critical role in how likely people are to respond to it.
This extension analyses your email and recommends an ideal email length for you so that the chances of a reply go up.
The art of getting someone’s attention with an email, starts with its subject line. Like the length of your email body, even the length of your subject line plays a crucial role in getting replies or not.
Boomerang also guides you on choosing the appropriate length for your subject title. It will notify you if its too long or too short.
Don’t you hate it when someone asks you too many questions? Especially on emails?
Boomerang has a feature which checks how many queries your email has. If you ask too much you annoy the reader, too few and the email serves little purpose in getting a response.
Simplicity is key. Simple gets your answers that you need.
Writing style and complexity of your text have a big impact on the impression of your email. It’s necessary to have the appropriate level of complexity when writing professional emails.
If you find yourself dealing with emails at work or in personal life, Boomerang may just end up simplifying your inbox.
To sum it up, Boomerang:
Boomerang for Gmail offers all of these features. This free Firefox/Chrome extension can’t quite read your mind, but sometimes it feels like the next best thing.
Try out Boomerang today.
If you think there is a better alternative to Boomerang for Gmail, let us know in the comments below.
