Letters to the future are a great way to remind yourself of old dreams and experiences or just to share thoughts and emotions that no one else can talk about. Lifhaker offers a list of services through which you can write to the future yourself or another person.
1. Future-mail
Through this service you can write a letter with a delay of 1 day to 100 years – not only to yourself, but also to a friend or even a stranger. To the news you are free to attach a file up to 500 KB or a snapshot from a webcam. Having paid 7 dollars, it is possible to send a letter in hard copy.
To use the site, it will have to register. Also on Future-mail there is a section with letters that their senders preferred not to hide from the eyes of the public.
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2. MailFuture
One of the simplest services of this kind. Write a message, specify the name and email address of the recipient, as well as the delivery date, and then wait.
The letter can be sent for a maximum of 100 years in advance, but it is worth choosing a smaller period: the site is based on pure enthusiasm, so at any time it can cease to exist. However, the authors say that the cost of maintaining the service is minimal, so it is unlikely that it will close soon.
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3. after year.rf
The project from St. Petersburg was born just recently and has a much more pleasant design than many other services. The site stands out that letters on it can be sent only for a year in advance. Despite this restriction, more than 270,000 people used the service in a few days.
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4. FutureMe
The service is in English, but it is easy to understand without knowing the language. On the main page enter the text of the letter, specify the date of sending and the recipient’s mail address, determine the privacy of the message and click on the bright gradient button.
The site has a section in which you can read public letters. In 2018, a more customizable Pro version should be available for teachers, communities and brands.
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5. LetterMeLater
This site is more like a full-fledged mail client than just a service for sending letters to the future. It will need to register, but you will get access to both the address book and the convenient editor. In the When to Send field, the date is specified, and you can also configure interval shipment. Then the letter will come to you with a certain periodicity. It is possible to attach a file to the message.
Initially, the service is free, but for $ 20 per year you can send more letters to a larger number of people, and the limit on the size of attachments will grow to 50 MB.
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6. Letter 2 Future
Service, which stores all the letters in a reliable Swiss computer security service MOUNT10. The site additionally offers a service for sending paper letters, which costs 6 dollars.
In Letter 2 Future there is a function that allows you to give yourself promises: you ask yourself a question, and after a specified time, honestly answer it by mail. After that, the service will provide a schedule that will show how regularly you keep your promises.
The site can run slowly in Google Chrome, but in Microsoft Edge pages are loaded without problems.
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7. Yandex.Mail
Letters to the future can be written through some traditional postal services, for example, through Yandex.Mail. In the drawing window, next to the yellow “Send” button, is the icon with the clock. Click on it and select the date and time you sent it. In the recipient’s line, enter your own address so that the letter will reach your e-mail.
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8. Gmail
To set up delayed sending in Google mail, you will need to install the Boomerang extension, which is available for all popular browsers. In the window of writing a letter under the blue “Send” button, the red button Send Later appears. Write a message, specify the recipient, click on the button and select the date and time of sending.
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