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How to use NotNow ?

NotNow is a simple email service that will snooze your emails. Send your emails to in3hours@notnow.co and you'll receive it back in 3 hours for example.

Working commands

NotNow understands a lot of commands, here is a list of them.

In some time

Use email addresses starting with "in" to simply snooze an email. If you send something to those addresses, the email will be send X minutes, hours or days after.
Here the working units of time:

  • inXminutes@notnow.co
  • inXhours@notnow.co
  • inXdays@notnow.co
  • inXweeks@notnow.co
  • inXmonths@notnow.co

Just replace X with the desired amount of time. For example, if you want to receive your email back in 3 hours, send it to in3hours@notnow.co.

On a specific day

To receive the email back on a specific day, use one of the following address:

  • Monday: onmonday@notnow.co
  • Tuesday: ontuesday@notnow.co
  • Wednesday: onwednesday@notnow.co
  • Thursday: onthursday@notnow.co
  • Friday: onfriday@notnow.co
  • Saturday: onsaturday@notnow.co
  • Sunday: onsunday@notnow.co

The next day, week, month

To receive the email back at the begining of the next day, week, or month, use one of the following:

  • nextday@notnow.co
  • nextweek@notnow.co
  • nextmonth@notnow.co

Use cases

NotNow can be used in many situations, here are some use cases reported by our users:

  • You sent a message to a prospect and want to follow in 5 days: Just CC in5days@notnow.co
  • You have a bill to pay next month: Simply forward your message to nextmonth@notnow.co
  • You receive an email on your phone and want to read it on your computer when arriving at the office: Simply forward your message to in2hours@notnow.co
  • You want to cancel your free Netflix subscription: Forward the welcome email to in29days@notnow.co

You have another example of usage ? Send them to nicolas@notnow.co, I'll add them here.

What about the privacy of my messages ?

When you send an email to our service, we store it until we send it back to you. We don't store anything past that time, we don't need it! Emails are only sent back to the email address used to send an email. For example, if john@doe.com sends an email to in5hours@notnow.co, the email is stored for 5hours, then sent back to john@doe.com and deleted from our servers.

We don't store any list of email addresses, usage or anything else, except the emails for the time you decided.


NotNow is a free tool developed by Nicolas Cognaux. Don't hesitate to contact me with your feedback!