Most of these plugins keep your scheduled emails in a separate folder, so you can make edits to your messages before they go out the next day. When I write big, important emails, or write emails when I’m in an elevated emotional state, I almost always schedule the email to send the next day. If you like answering work emails in the evening, but don’t want your coworkers to expect responses after a certain time, you should delay sending your emails until the next business day. Again, this point is all about setting other people’s expectations.
One of the best pieces of software I’ve ever bought is a plugin for Apple Mail named SendLater. There are send-it-later plugins available for Gmail, Apple Mail, Outlook, and Android.
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that you don’t work past 5pm, or respond to emails right after you receive them), install a send-it-later plugin for your email client. Takeaway: To manage people’s expectations (e.g.