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Google employee Matt Cutts mentioned before how he tries to slow down emailing by not getting into the habit of instant replies… this way, he receives less speedy follow-up questions (which might otherwise make him to quickly reply again, leading to something more resembling chat), decreasing the number of emails he gets. But ignoring unread emails for a while or saving replies as draft first might not be the best option, as it still creates a number of digital todos piling up. Now Johnny Haeusler of German Spreeblick writes:

<<Like zillions of other interweb users I’ve often wondered why you can’t set a future date for email sending. Type a mail in the evening which will then be sent out the next morning. This shouldn’t be a problem on a technical level.

The longer you think about it the more obvious it becomes: this is the kind of feature to bring down whole governments. If not more.>>

What do you think, would this make a nice optional feature for Gmail or other email clients? Also, can you think of other existing – or yet nonexistent but entirely possible – ways of artificially slowing down our tech life… in order to, paradoxically, save time?
(One is probably a phone’s mail box; then there are digital video recorders which can halt a running show; another use is freezing the timing of webpage animations down to the first still image, avoiding the distractions of blinking. We may also bookmark a webpage for later reading. Many blogging systems – as of recently, including Google’s Blogger.com – also have a feature to postpone a post.)

[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Postpone Email Sending? | Comments]

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Monday, February 18th, 2008 @ 1:28 pm Google Blog
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