How to Use FollowUpThen

FollowUpThen requires no account to get started!

Just compose an email and include [schedule format]@followupthen.com in the "Cc", "Bcc" or "To" fields of your email. Each is a bit different:

  • BCC: You will receive a followup but we won't bug the original recipient.
  • TO: You will get a followup after the time interval you specify.
  • CC: If your recipient has not responded by the scheduled time, both of you receive a followup. Note: Your recipient has to “reply all” to include followupthen on their response for us to know about it. You can always cancel followups by emailing pending@followupthen.com.

Time Formats

Here are some examples of the scheduling formats you can use:

Time Interval

  • 1minute@followupthen.com
  • 2hours@followupthen.com
  • 3days@followupthen.com
  • 4weeks@followupthen.com
  • 5months@followupthen.com
  • 6years@followupthen.com

Day of Week

  • tuesday@followupthen.com

Common Scheduling Terms

  • tomorrow@followupthen.com
  • nextweek@followupthen.com
  • nextmonth@followupthen.com

Specific Date

  • mar30@followupthen.com
  • 2010-05-30@followupthen.com

Specific Time

  • 11am@followupthen.com
  • 1132am@followupthen.com
  • 1500@followupthen.com

Specific Date and Time

  • tomorrow9am@followupthen.com
  • 12pmAug25@followupthen.com

Recurring Reminders

  • everywed@followupthen.com
  • everymar30@followupthen.com
  • every1st@followupthen.com
  • every15th@followupthen.com

SMS Reminders

Premium users can add "-sms" to their followups to receive text message reminders. For example:

  • tomorrow1045am-sms@followupthen.com

Viewing and canceling pending reminders

Just email pending@followupthen.com and you’ll receive an email back with list of pending followups, along with a link to cancel any reminder.


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Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. We will never share your information with a 3rd party.

Your information is kept safe on secure FollowUpThen servers.

We automatically delete your email contents once the followup has been sent, as well as your recipient's email address.