I like to be proactive about things. There are times that I have to send someone an email on a certain date, or remind someone of a certain thing on a certain date, typically in the future. Well when I know about these things I've used sticky notes, calendar remidners, and other seemingly stupid ways to remember to do something. I was poking around OutLook today and figure out I can set a date to send a mail. So a colleague asked me to remind him of something on Dec. 4th. Well I'll be traveling for work (I'll have my computer with me) and may not be in the mindframe to remember to send him an email.

So I've composed the message that I need to send, and then clicked the 'options' menu item. Under the 'Delay Deliver' item on the 2007 Outlook Ribbon, I then chose:

   Do not deliver before: 12/4/2007 11:40 PM

I know I'll be in the office then, and my machine will be running so the mail now goes into the outbox, but sits there until then. So at 11:40 (ish) it will be sent out, no need to remember!

Make sure you realize that you must have OutLook open and be connected to the exchange server for this to work.