From Past Me, With Love (and Nagging)
I have a recurring problem. I need to remember to do something months from now, and every tool I own is bad at it in a different way.
A calendar? If that day is busy, or I just don't look, the reminder slides right past me into the void.
A todo list? I change todo list software every other week. Because I have a problem.
The one tool that has survived every phase, every migration, every "this time it'll stick" is email. Email is forever. Email is inescapable. Email is the cockroach that will outlive us all.
So I built LaterMe.fyi, which solves this the wrong way: emails from past you to future you.
How it works
Write a note to future-you, pick a date, and fire it into the future. When the day comes around, past-you turns up in your inbox holding the thing you forgot you'd need.
Optional recurrence, for the stuff that keeps coming back.
And mandatory acknowledgement: thou shalt accept the reminder, or we shall keep emailing you until you do. No silent dismissals. No "I'll deal with it later" (you won't).
Why a Cloudflare Worker
It runs as a Cloudflare Worker, which means I can largely forget it exists. That's the ideal relationship to have with infrastructure. A reminder service is no good to me if it's quietly failed to start on some box in the basement.
Mostly I built it for me. But it might be useful for you too:
- Open signup
- Email-based auth (no password to lose)
- Best-efforts privacy and security
I'm sure there are competing tools out there. Some of them are probably better. But this is mine.
Past me has your back.
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